Obey the Giant: Life in the Image WorldAugust, 2001 - 224 pagina's Design critic Rick Poynor explores the thinking behind contemporary visual culture - intriguing and fascinating appraisal. In the twenty-first century, commerce and culture are ever more closely entwined. This new 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". Around the world, many are now waking up to the dominance of huge corporations - invariably expressed by visual means. This pointed and provocative counterblast arrives at a moment when critical responses are vital if this mono-culture is to be challenged. 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. |
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... contemporary airports it so much resembles . Shopping malls , as the British social critic Paul Barker has observed , bring out the English vice of snobbery on both left and right . ' The attacks on the shamelessly populist designs of ...
... contemporary airports it so much resembles . Shopping malls , as the British social critic Paul Barker has observed , bring out the English vice of snobbery on both left and right . ' The attacks on the shamelessly populist designs of ...
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... contemporary strategy for the inclusion of politics in visual communication . As areas of concern , Credland highlighted three issues : ( a ) recuperation , the process by which radical gestures are incorporated , neutralised and sold ...
... contemporary strategy for the inclusion of politics in visual communication . As areas of concern , Credland highlighted three issues : ( a ) recuperation , the process by which radical gestures are incorporated , neutralised and sold ...
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... contemporary graphic design , though , seems to jettison coherent subject matter at the first opportunity , favouring instead the oblique gesture , the disconnected fragment , the abstract sensation and the studied non sequitur , and ...
... contemporary graphic design , though , seems to jettison coherent subject matter at the first opportunity , favouring instead the oblique gesture , the disconnected fragment , the abstract sensation and the studied non sequitur , and ...
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Introduction | 6 |
ADVERTISEMENTS FOR UTOPIA | 14 |
The boredom of plenty | 16 |
Copyright | |
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