World Graphic Design: Contemporary Graphics from Africa, the Far East, Latin America and the Middle East
Автор:Geoffrey Caban Год: 2004 Издание:Merrell Страниц: 160 ISBN: 1858942195 "World Graphic Design" is the first-ever survey of contemporary design and designers outside the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America and Australasia. Divided into four sections, each corresponding to a major geographical zone - Africa, the Far East, Latin America and the Middle East - it offers a groundbreaking survey of work being carried out today within the most popular genres of graphic design: posters, book and album covers, packaging and promotion. The aim of this book is to celebrate design that is an expression of its time, place and people - the very antithesis of much twentieth-century European and North American design, which has sought to be universal, abstract and timeless. For each region, a general introduction sets the indigenous graphic design within its own unique cultural and political context. The entries that follow allow the individual designers to speak for themselves, to describe their most profound influences and to give a local perspective on...
