ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First and foremost, we want to thank every single person who answered our emails and phone calls and took the time to provide the materials and information that are the essence of this book.

Graphic Design, Referenced would most likely not exist had it not been for the vision of Rockport’s Winnie Prentiss, publisher, and Emily Potts, acquisitions editor, who approached us with the idea of creating an ambitious tome about graphic design. Most important, we thank them for their patience as we extended our delivery dates months—and months. Also at Rockport, we would like to thank Regina Grenier, art director and senior design manager, for her support in the design of this book, and Tiffany Hill and Cora Hawks for their apt management skills.

For helping us avoid major embarrassments we extend our deep gratitude to Aaris Sherin, assistant professor of graphic design at St. John’s University, for her indefatigable fact-checking, and to Madeline Gutin Perri, for making us sound like better writers with her acute copyediting.

The early advice and suggestions of Michael Bierut, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoefler, Adrian Shaughnessy, and our readers at Speak Up were integral to getting us on the right track. Preliminary research by Nikita Prokhorov helped ease the burden, and suggestions of design projects to illustrate some of the entries by Joe Marianek unearthed true gems. Extended appreciation to Steven Heller, Michael Johnson, and Patrick Burgoyne for their consistent help in matters large and small through this project.

Many thanks to all these wonderful individuals who helped us with the most simple and complex requests (appearing in the chronological order they assisted us): Stephen Coles, Michael Pieracci, and Yves Peters, FontShop International; Rich Kaplan, Finlay Printing; Kurt Koepfle, Susannah McDonald, Tamara McKenna, Adi Wise, Simon Beresford-Smith, Pentagram; Bob Zeni, STA; Dmitry Utkin, designyoutrust.com; Emmet Byrne, Walker Art Center; Design Maven; Elaine Lustig Cohen; Laetitia Wolff; Markus Rathgeb; Derrick Schultz and Katie Varrati; Emily Roz and Mike Essl, Herb Lubalin Study Center; Marian Bantjes; Stephen Eskilson; Joe Kral; Kari Horowicz and David Pankow, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, RIT; Michael Evamy; Marc J. Frattasio; Thomas Phinney, Adobe; Jennifer Bass; Louise Sandhaus; Grant Hutchinson; Robert Jones and Jordan Crane, Wolff Olins; Ian Lynam; David Pearson; Heather Strelecki, AIGA; Sarah Coffman; Michelle French; Mark Kingsley; Maaike de Laat; Allan Haley; Steff Geissbuhler; Jose Nieto; Joe Miller; Kevin Reagan; Richard R. Anwyl, The Center for Design Study. Apologies if we left anyone out.

To our parents and brothers, our most fervent cheerleaders—without their support and confidence in us, this would have been a constant uphill challenge.

And, above all, to our daughter, Maya, whose unbridled sense of curiosity and discovery fuel our own.