[citation needed] In contrast to Pevsner, he published a history of graphic design that went beyond the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
[2] In the late 1970s, Meggs used a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to travel to other institutions and teach the history of visual communication in an effort to promote the subject.
[5] In addition to his teaching at VCU, he served as visiting faculty at Syracuse University and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
[2] The core subject matter of the book drew on the histories of two intellectual traditions, graphic arts and visual communication.
[citation needed] He died after a long battle with leukemia on November 24, 2002, at the age of 60 and was buried at Dale Memorial Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.