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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Life in the Image World Rick Poynor. Ineffable cool Are you cool ? Do you design cool things ? Are your clients as cool as you ? No doubt about it , ' cool ' is now the ultimate term of approval , and one of the most loaded and revealing ...
Life in the Image World Rick Poynor. Ineffable cool Are you cool ? Do you design cool things ? Are your clients as cool as you ? No doubt about it , ' cool ' is now the ultimate term of approval , and one of the most loaded and revealing ...
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... Cool , self - puncturing messages inoculate themselves against criticism by doing the job for us , and allow us to carry on consuming while feeling we are cool enough to see through their ploys . If cool was once the pose of a small ...
... Cool , self - puncturing messages inoculate themselves against criticism by doing the job for us , and allow us to carry on consuming while feeling we are cool enough to see through their ploys . If cool was once the pose of a small ...
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... cool new type styles were swiftly co - opted by corporations happy as always to exploit their ' transgressive ' power . Years later , books with titles like Cool Type and Cool Sites pile up in the stores . For any designer concerned to ...
... cool new type styles were swiftly co - opted by corporations happy as always to exploit their ' transgressive ' power . Years later , books with titles like Cool Type and Cool Sites pile up in the stores . For any designer concerned to ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 6 |
ADVERTISEMENTS FOR UTOPIA | 14 |
The boredom of plenty | 16 |
Copyright | |
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