Retro Graphics Cookbook is a visual sourcebook of design details, motifs, ornaments, icons, logos, colour palettes, illustration styles and type and letterforms. It analyses a wide range of classic design `looks' and breaks them down into the individual components from which they are built, explaining where they originated, what gives them their defining characteristics and showing examples of how they were used at the time. The book offers a compendium of design `modules' that any contemporary graphic designer can employ to accurately and authentically simulate retro styles. The main focus of Retro Graphics Cookbook is on the graphic style of the late nineteenth century and the major movements and styles of the twentieth century. It encompasses everything from Art Nouveau and Futurism to Cool Jazz of the '50s, Pop Art of the '60s and Post Modernism of the '70s and '80s. Richly illustrated and carefully researched, Retro Graphics Cookbook is a visual encyclopedia of all the ingredients, recipes and methods that lie behind a feast of distinctive graphic design styles.
