Background
Meggs was born on May 30, 1942 in Newberry, South Carolina, to Wallace National Meggs and Elizabeth Pruitt Meggs.
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Meggs was born on May 30, 1942 in Newberry, South Carolina, to Wallace National Meggs and Elizabeth Pruitt Meggs.
Virginia Commonwealth University.
His book History of Graphic Design is a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design. He has been called the most important historian of design since Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983). In contrast to Pevsner, he published a history of graphic design that went beyond the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
One of the first educators to create an overview of the history of graphic design that did not depend exclusively on the traditional structure of the history of the art, Meggs believed that graphic design would need to acquire an adequate understanding of the past and its relation with art
He had a twin brother, William Joel Meggs. At 16 years of age he practiced typesetting metal type in the afternoons after school and enjoyed drawing and painting.
He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and an honorary doctorate from Massachusetts College of Artist They had two children, Andrew and Elizabeth.
Post-college, Meggs worked as a senior designer at Reynolds Metals and then art director at Ampere-hour Robins Pharmaceuticals.
In 1968, he began teaching in the Communication Arts and Design Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, chairing the department from 1974 to 1987, during which time enrollment doubled and the program rose to national prominence. In addition to his teaching at VCU, he served as visiting faculty at Syracuse University and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Inspired by a lack of research and instructive materials on design history, theory and creative methods, Meggs started teaching a history of graphic design course in 1974.
His efforts to record and understand the history of this profession lead him to publish his first book, A History of Graphic Design, in 1983.
While a professor at VCU he authored more than a dozen books and 150 articles and papers on design and typography, including a section on graphic design in the Encyclopædia Britannica. He died after a long battle with leukemia on November 24, 2002 at the age of 60 and was buried at Dale Memorial Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
2011 Meggs" History of Graphic Design (5th edition) John Wiley & Sons.
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