Author

Books by Philip B. Meggs

Philip B. Meggs (1942–2002) was an American graphic designer, educator, and design historian who spent most of his career at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he chaired the graphic design department. The first edition of Meggs' History of Graphic Design, published in 1983, became the definitive survey of its field and has been revised and expanded by Alston W. Purvis through a fifth edition in 2012. Meggs also wrote Type and Image and A History of the Graphic Design Profession.