5 information design classics that are so perfect you might forget they were ever designed

Some graphic forms are so ubiquitous today that it’s hard to remember that they were ever novel. But of course, there was a first time for everything. A new and comprehensive visual survey of graphic design history, Graphic Classics, seems to capture nearly all of humanity’s major design firsts in a way that’s not Guttenberg Bible–dense, but rather Esquire mag–flippable (both are in the book). Phaidon’s new visual survey of graphic design history, “Graphic Classics,” launched...