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Chapter 1 - In the Beginning: Writing
Chapter2: The Medium is the Message; The Birth of Communication Design in Egypt
Chapter 3 - A Symbiotic Relationship: Book
Chapter 4 - The Islamic Calligraphy
Chapter 5 - Calligraphy in East Asia
Chapter 6 - Cartography and Designing of Maps
Chapter 8 - Tarot Cards and Mithraism
Chapter 10 - The Art of Minature
Chapter 11 - Woodblock Prints of China and Japan
Chapter 12 - Graphic Design in Ceramics
Chapter 13 - Native American Pottery
Chapter 14 - The Mayan, Aztecs, and Incas' Art
Chapter 17 - Communications: from Speech to Pictogram and Heraldic Signs
Chapter 18 - Logotypes and Branding
Chapter 19 - The Viennese Method
Chapter 20 - Pictograms in Olympics
Chapter 21 - Astronomical, Statistical and Scientific
Chapter 23 - Ancient Rock Reliefs
Chapter 25 - Pioneers of the Art Nouveau
Chapter 26 - The US Pioneers of Posters
Chapter 27 - Gustav Klimt, and the Vienna Secession
Chapter 28 - Poster Art as Social Commentary
Chapter 29 - Propaganda Posters
Chapter 30 - Posters and the Cult of Personality
Chapter 31 - The German Jugendstil and Plakatstil Movements
Chapter 32 - Pioneers of Advertisement Posters and Newspaper Layout
Chapter 34- Graphic Designers in the Fashion Industry
Chapter 35 - Graffiti and Street Art
Chapter 36 - Art of Posters for Films - the Cuban School
Chapter 37 - the Polish School and the Polish Art of Opera, Film and Circus Posters
Chapter 38 - Saul Bass, and the Art of Film Title Sequence & Film Poster
Chapter 39 - A History of Film Title Sequence
Chapter 40; A history of Caricatures, and Political Cartoons
Chapter 41. A History of the Comic Strips and the Underground Comix
Chapter 42; The Swiss Grid System -- and the Dutch Total Grid
Chapter 43: Graphic Design and the Postmodern Epoch
Chapter 44; The Italian Futurist Visual Design
Chapter 45; Dadaism; The meeting point of all contradictions