In the 21st century, commerce and culture are ever more closely entwined. This collection of essays by design critic Rick Poynor takes a searching look at visual culture to discover the reality beneath the ultra-seductive surfaces. Poynor explores the thinking behind the emerging resistance to commercial rhetoric among designers, and offers critical insights into the changing dialogue between advertising and design. Other essays address the topics of visual journalism; brands as religion; the new solipsism; graphic memes; the pleasures of imperfect design; and the poverty of "cool". The worldwide dominance of huge corporations is invariably expressed by visual means. This book challenges this mono-culture critically. It offers inspirational evidence of alternative ways of engaging with design, and it will appeal to any reader with a questioning interest in design, advertising, cultural studies, media studies, and the visual arts.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"A terrific book. Essential. After you've read it, you really can't look at the world in the same way, which is also a definition of art." (Douglas Coupland)
"So timely in its critique of global-market-driven design that it gives the sense of an alarm clock ringing anew after a self-indulgent culture pounded the snooze button." (Eye)
"An articulate and poignant set of essays [.] Poynor is a sensitive, often brilliant writer on visual design in graphics, advertising, and commercial visual culture." (Art Monthly)
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Schweiz
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Editions-Typ
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
37
37 farbige Abbildungen
37 col. ill.
Maße
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-8500-2 (9783764385002)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Rick Poynor's books include Design Without Boundaries, No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism and Designing Pornotopia. He is a research fellow at the Royal College of Art, London, and lectures internationally on design and visual culture.
