Book Spotting: A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days

With both my pre-teen daughters' current fascination with cut paper crafts, and their burgeoning interest in graphic design, the creativereview.co.uk blog headline "Make design history with scissors and glue" immediately caught my attention.

The subject of the blog post, the book entitled A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days (Gestalten), is now on my Christmas shopping list. Not only will my daughters benefit from it, but I'll finally have a way to easily explain graphic design (for the 100th time) to my adult relatives.

Uncle Ralph: "What is it you say you do? Graphic design? What's that?"
Me: "Read this Uncle Ralph... Merry Christmas. So, where's the eggnog?"

Read more about A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days at creativereview.co.uk