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Bibliography

As you have already fathomed, I love posters. The combination of word and image makes my head buzz. Below are some resources I have used over the years. CM





Dawn Ades, The 20th-Century Poster: Design of the Avant-Garde
(Abbeville Press Publishers, NY, n.d.)

John Barnicoat, Posters, A Concise History
(Thames & Hudson, London 1972: reprint 2003).

David Bownes and Oliver Green, eds, London Transport Posters: A Century of Art and Design (Lund Humphries with London Transport Museum, Hampshire 2008).

Kees Broos and Paul Hefting, A Century of Dutch Graphic Design
(The MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1993).

Ronald G. Carraher and Jacqueline B. Thurston, Optical Illusions and the Visual Arts (Reinhold Publishing Company NY 1966; reprint 1968).

Ennis Carter, Posters for the People: Art of the WPA (Quirk Books, Philadelphia 2008).

Martijn
Cess de Jung, Aliston W. Purvis and Matjen F. LeCoultre, 1,000 Posters from Toiulouse-Lautrec Through Sagmeister (Abrams, NY 2010).

Cees de Jong, New Poster Art (Thames & Hudson, London, n.d.)

Designer Posters
(Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester Massachusetts, 1996).

Kimberly Elam, Geometry of Design (Princeton Architectural Press, NY 2001).

El Lissitzky: architect, painter, photographer, typographer (Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhover, 1990).

Joanne Gernstein-London, Fly Now!: A Colorful Story of Flight From Hot Air Balloon to The 777 "Worldliner" (National Geographic, Washington D.C., n.d.).

Wilson Harvey/Loewe, 1000 Type Treatments (
Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester Massachusetts, 2005).

Steven Heller, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State
(Phaidon Press, London 2008).

 Steven Heller and Louise Fili, Deco Type: Stylish Alphabets of the the 20's & 30s
(
Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 1997).

Steven Heller and Louise Fili, Dutch Moderne
(
Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 1994).

Steven Heller and Louise Fili, Euro Deco, Graphic Design Between the Wars
(Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 1993-1998).

David King, Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union
(Abrams, NY 2008).

Lars Muller, editor, Josef Muller-Brockmann: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design
(Lars Muller Publishers,
Baden, Switzerland, c2000 2nd edition).

Poster Art
(
Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester Massachusetts, 1996).

Carlotte Rivers, Poster-Art: Innovation in Poster Design
(Rotovision SA, Switzerland 2007).

Deborah Rothschild, et al, Design in the Mechanical Age
(Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 1998).

Timothy Samara, Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design (Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester Massachusetts, 2004).

Margaret Timmers, editor, The Power of the Poster
(V & A Publications, London 1998; 2003 reprint).

Zeixs, Best of Poster Design (Feierabend Unique Books, Koln 2009).