The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
- Format: Box Set
- Size: 315 × 250 mm (12 3/8 × 9 7/8 in)
- Pages: 1050 pp
- Illustrations: 3000 illustrations
- ISBN: 9780714865591
"Tap into the fetish of the letterset with The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design a typographic box of delights."— Vogue
"Wonderful... The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design is a history of visual astonishment."— The Observer
"Truly an archive... So each entry is like an individual art work... A defiant stand, perhaps, against the digital world, and all about the beauty of paper and printing... Perfect for devotees... A super-indulgent box of surprises, from the iconic Gitanes packaging to Milton Glaser's I Love NY."— Financial Times
"The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design is the commercial art cannon embodied: 500 topic sheets on everything from a 700-year-old Buddhist text to the album art of Beck's 'The Information'."— The New York Times Style Magazine
"...Good graphic design can be informative, persuasive - and sometimes even moving. The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design... surveys some of the highlights over the past 600 years."— The Wall Street Journal