Retro Graphics Cookbook: Recreate 100 Years of Graphic Design

Retro Graphics Cookbook is a visual sourcebook of designdetails, motifs, ornaments, icons, logos, colour palettes, illustrationstyles and type and letterforms. It analyses a wide range of classic design`looks' and breaks them down into the individual components from which theyare built, explaining where they originated, what gives them their definingcharacteristics and showing examples of how they were used at the time. Thebook offers a compendium of design `modules' that any contemporary graphicdesigner can employ to accurately and authentically simulate retro styles.The main focus of Retro Graphics Cookbook is on the graphic style of thelate nineteenth century and the major movements and styles of the twentieth
century. It encompasses everything from Art Nouveau and Futurism to CoolJazz of the '50s, Pop Art of the '60s and Post Modernism of the '70s and
'80s.
Richly illustrated and carefully researched, Retro Graphics Cookbook is avisual encyclopedia of all the ingredients, recipes and methods that liebehind a feast of distinctive graphic design styles.