UN/SEEN: Women in Graphic Design up to the Bauhaus - Slanted Publishers

UN/SEEN: Women in Graphic Design up to the Bauhaus

Why are so many female graphic designers invisible? And What does the present have to do with the past?

The publication UN/SEEN. Women in Graphic Design up to the Bauhaus explores the origins of graphic design and examines the period leading up to the Bauhaus. Drawing on newly researched examples from book and poster design, typography, illustration, packaging, printing and advertising, the publication highlights just how successful and self-assured the first generation of female graphic designers was. At the same time, the publication documents, for the first time, the anonymous work of women in commercial art and the printing industry. In doing so, the publication enriches the history of modern graphic design with female perspectives and places particular emphasis on the relationship between design, gender and class.