Italian Art Deco. Graphic design between the wars

Year: 1993
Place: San Francisco
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Edition: 1st
Language: EN
Pages: 134
Condition: VG
Cover condition: G
Binding: SC
Illustrated: In color.

- Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design between the Wars is a unique survey of commercial design in Italy during an extraordinary period of creative vitality and political turmoil.
Featuring many design motifs that have never before been published in the United States, Italian Art Deco offers an exquisite showcase of modern Italian graphic design, known for its bold typography and streamlined imagery. This book also reveals the Futurist influence on commercial Art Moderne, while examining how such individualistic work could flourish under a ruthless fascist regime between World Wars I and II.
Grouped by subject and reproduced in either color or black-and-white, the more than 500 designs, including trademarks, labels, posters, packages, calendars, and book and magazine covers celebrate a wide range of Italian products, while bringing to light the often chilling images and symbols of political propaganda.
Perfect for graphic designers, design students, history buffs, and lovers of Italian ephemera. Italian Art Deco is a colorful examination of how a brief artistic movement has contributed to an enduring national style.

- Steven Heller is a Senior Art Director of The Ne York Times and the author of dozens of books, including The Art of New York, Art Against War, and the forthcoming Dutch Modern: Graphie Design From De Stijl to Deco. The editor of the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Journal of Graphic Design, he writes frequently for Print, Upper and Lower Case, and Eye magazines, and is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts design grants.

- Louise Fili is principal of Louise Fili Ltd, in New York City, a design firm specializing in book and book jacket, logo, package, and type design in the United States and Italy. Formerly Senior Designer for Herb Lubolin Associates, she was the Art Director for Pantheon Books for eleven years, where she designed and art directed over two thousand book jackets. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts design grant to study the work of W. A. Dwiggins.