ARCHIGRAPHIA
Architectural & Environmental Graphics
Walter Herdeg [Editor]
[Architectural & Environmental Graphics / Architektur- und Signalisierungsgraphik /la Creation Graphique Appliquee a L’Architecture et a L’Environment]. Zurich: The Graphis Press, 1978/1981. Second printing [Publication no. 152]. Text in English, German and French. Square quarto. Glazed pictorial boards. 236 pp. 823 color and black and white examples. Cover design by Jean-Michel Folon. Sticker shadow to front free endpaper, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Lightly handled with trivial wear: a nearly fine copy. Uncommon thus.
9.25 x 9.5 hardcover book with 236 pages and 823 b/w and color examples of architectural and environmental graphics. Designed and produced to the highest standards of Zurich’s Graphis Press. With a name like Graphis, its got to be good.
A comprehensive survey featuring text sumaries, biographies and introductions featuring over 800 architectural and environmental graphic examples from the legendary designers you would expect and then some. Many uncommon examples - highly recommended.
- Preface by Walter Herdeg
- Index to Artistis & Designers
- Subject Index
- Index to Architects
- Authors Biographies
- Pictograms and Symbol Signs: Masaru Katzumie, Otl Aicher, Lance Wyman, Shigeo Fukada, etc.
- Traffic and Highway Signage: Buenos Aires, England, DRU, Chermayeff & Geismar, Wim Crouwel, etc.
- Visual Guidance Systems: Introduced by John Follis: Vignelli Associates (wow - 20 page review on NYC Transit Authority Guidelines), Adrian Frutiger, Total Design, Jean Widmer, Chermayeff & Geismar, Saul Bass & Associates, etc.
- Graphics and Lettering on Buildings and Shop Fronts: Saul Bass & Associates, Adrian Frutiger, Egbert Jacobsen, William Golden, Paul Rand, Rudolph de Harak, DRU, Leo Lionni, Milton Glaser, FHK Henrion, Ernst Keller, Gerard Miedinger, etc.
- Supergraphics and Animated Walls: New York, London, Minneapolis, Germany, Detroit, New Orleans, Armin Hofmann, CBS, etc.
- Transportation and Vehicle Graphics: Saul Bass, Albe Steiner, Lester Beall, Jost Hochuli, Hans Schleger, Nelly Rudin, Rudolf Bircher, Walter Landor, etc.