Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Graphic Art to Design 1890 to 1914 -- The Art Poster -- Two-Dimensional Design and Graphic Reproduction -- Information Design Bauhaus Typography -- Photography and Sequence -- Printing Technique and Design -- Colour and Visual Clues -- Production and New Technology -- The Beginnings of Design in Europe -- War and Propaganda 1914 to the 1920s -- The Avant-Garde and the Origins of Modernism 1914 to 1940 -- Futurism and Italy -- Soviet Russia -- Germany -- The Netherlands -- National Tendencies until 1940 -- Switzerland -- France -- Britain -- The Designer and the Art Director -- The United States in the 1930s -- War and Propaganda 1920s to 1945 -- The United States 1945 to the 1960s -- Variants of Modernism in Europe -- Switzerland and Neue Graphik -- Italy and the Milanese Style -- France -- Northern Europe -- Psychedelia, Protest and New Techniques -- The Late 1960s -- New Waves: Electronic Technology -- The 1970s and 1980s -- From 1990 to the New Millennium.