Broad Stripes Bright Stars
a graphic history celebrating 250 years of america's icons
$88.00
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2025
Summary
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars: An American Iconography
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars is a look book of our most cherished American icons —the Flag, the Eagle, Uncle Sam, and Lady Liberty—through hundreds of patriotic objects created during the past two and a half centuries, and how these permeated the lives of Americans.
The chapters are based on Kit Hinrich’s collection of over 7,500 flags and flag memorabilia, assembled over the past 50 years. The boo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798881600204 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Kit Hinrichs, Delphine Hirasuna, Terry Heffernan |
| Publisher: | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Imprint: | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 117g |
| Dimensions: | 311mm x 235mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Kit Hinrichs
Kit Hinrichs served as principal in several design offices in New York and San Francisco and spent twenty-three years as a partner of Pentagram before opening Studio Hinrichs in 2009. His design experience incorporates a wide range of projects, including brand development, promotion, packaging, environmental graphics, editorial, and exhibition design. He is also a noted American flag collector and founder of the Stars & Stripes Foundation.
His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museums of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Denver Museum of Design and Letterform Archive. In addition to Narrative Design, he is the co-author of five books, including Typewise, Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag and The Pentagram Papers.
Kit co-founded the magazine @issue: The Journal of Business and Design, chaired the AIGA California Show, and co-chaired the AGI San Francisco Congress. He is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA medal and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. Recently, he was commissioned to design an American Flag exhibit, titled Broad Stripes/Bright Stars at the Nevada Museum of Art and a major new American flag book, with the same title for Andrews McMeel Publishing, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.
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