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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... feel that other people are doing the ' obeying ' - without even realising it - while we go our own way . That there is , however , a ' giant ' out there few could seriously deny . Even the most determined and Panglossian free - market ...
... feel that other people are doing the ' obeying ' - without even realising it - while we go our own way . That there is , however , a ' giant ' out there few could seriously deny . Even the most determined and Panglossian free - market ...
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... feeling we are cool enough to see through their ploys . If cool was once the pose of a small , rebellious minority , it's now the attitude shared by most young people and many of their parents , too . Cool consumerism is about ...
... feeling we are cool enough to see through their ploys . If cool was once the pose of a small , rebellious minority , it's now the attitude shared by most young people and many of their parents , too . Cool consumerism is about ...
Pagina 124
... feel like without the pervasive grid of commercial messages . To us , thoroughly tuned in and responsive to the omnipresence of advertising , this peculiar emptiness - for that is how it now seems - feels both strange and liberating ...
... feel like without the pervasive grid of commercial messages . To us , thoroughly tuned in and responsive to the omnipresence of advertising , this peculiar emptiness - for that is how it now seems - feels both strange and liberating ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 6 |
ADVERTISEMENTS FOR UTOPIA | 14 |
The boredom of plenty | 16 |
Copyright | |
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