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Philip Baxter Meggs (1942–2002) was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. 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. ==Life and early career== Meggs was born on May 30, 1942 in Newberry, South Carolina,〔 to Wallace Nat Meggs and Elizabeth Pruitt Meggs. 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 Art. In 1964 he married his college girlfriend, Libby Phillips, an art director and illustrator.〔 They had two children, Andrew and Elizabeth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philip B. Meggs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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