Typography and graphic design: from antiquity to the present

Part 1. From antiquity to Modern Times, Archaic signs, figures, and writing, The Middle Ages: graphic design as cottage industry, Techniques and materials: paper, printing and composition, The Renaissance: fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The passage from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, The Neoclassical period

Part 2. The long nineteenth century, decisive changes, A revival in the arts and graphics, Affirmations of modernity

Part 3. The first third of the twentieth century, The avant-garde floodtide, World War I, Continuation and reconstruction in the avant-guard

Part 4. From the rise of totalitarianism to World War II, Totalitarianism: avant-garde exile and survival, World War II

Postwar economic boom, Characteristics and horizons, Creativity and trends country by country, Professionalism and expansion

Part 6. The final decades of the twentieth century, Pre-digital graphic design: context and overview, Experimentation in the 1970s, The advent of digital design, Widespread freedom