Philip Baxter Meggs

MEGGS WAS BORN ON MAY 30, 1942, IN NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA.  MEGGS
WAS AN AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESINGER,PROFESSOR, HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR OF BOOKS IN GRAPHIC DESING. HIS BOOK HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN IS A STANDARD READ FOR FOR STUDYING GRAPHIC DESIGN.

Meggs was also one of the first professional educators to create an overview of the history of graphic design that did not depend on the traditional structure of the history of art.  Meggs believed that graphic design needed to acquire and adequate understanding off the past and its relations with art.

At 16 years of age he practiced typesetting metal in the afternoons after school and enjoyed drawing and painting.

After college, Meggs worked as a senior designer at a metal company any then art directory of a pharmaceutical company.

In 1968, he began teaching in the Communication Arts and Design Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

.

Meggs later died after a long battle with leukemia on November 24, 2002 at the age of 60.