A toolkit for visual literacy in the 21st centuryA New Program for Graphic Design is the first communicationdesign textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Three coursesTypography Gestalt and Interfaceprovide the foundation of this book.Through a series of indepth historical case studies from Benjamin Franklin to the Macintosh computer and assignments that progressively build in complexity A New Program for Graphic Design serves as a practical guide both for designers and for undergraduate students coming from a range of other disciplines. Synthesizing the pragmatic with the experimental and drawing on the work of Max Bill Beatrice Warde Muriel Cooper and Stewart Brand among many others it builds upon mid to late20thcentury pedagogical models to convey contemporary design principles in an understandable form for students of all levelstreating graphic design as a liberal art that informs the dissemination of knowledge across all disciplines.