Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

gold-medal-sucking bogeymen. After thirteen years of hard work I had developed an allergy to the media,” he said about turning e ...

End Bad Breath^25 Seymour Chwast,Designer The Vietnam War polarized the American people like no other conflict since the Civil W ...

wrenching as War Is Not Healthy.. .or And Babies? But through comic surrealism—the juxtaposition of a typical mass-market advert ...

with its childlike drawings and terse text that served as a cautionary parable on the nature of armed conflict, and War is No Da ...

“This was the kind of illustration method that was being done in those days,” he explains. “Little people on shoulders, things i ...

Men With No Lips^29 Robbie Conal The notice Post No Bills was coined in mid-nineteenth-century England to prevent the hangers of ...

rock band advertisement. Yet after a few sightings the intent of the message to tweak Americans’ hearts and minds out of complac ...

Grapus Posters^31 Grapus The Paris student revolution of May 1968 was one of the most dramatic political events in a decade note ...

fashion studio. The trio came together in May 1968 at the École Nationale des Arts Decoratifs, where Miehe was a student and one ...

two different persons.” Hence they dedicated themselves solely to social concerns. Yet convincing these normally suspicious grou ...

Glasnost Posters When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed power in 1985 the words glasnost,perestroika, and demokratiawere not uttered. Af ...

government could not achieve the simplest task, that of matching the right cover to the right saucepan, could perestroika really ...

speak,” wrote the comedian Yakov Smirnoff in a 1989 New York Times op-ed article. In the end, what happened shook the world. The ...

Cigarette Advertisements^37 Women have come a long way from the presuffrage era when it was unladylike to smoke. Taken up as aca ...

Cigarettes were a staple for Depression-weary and later war-torn Americans. Yet despite the claim of weight control, they offere ...

Religious Tracts^39 I knew a guy from work who stood in Times Square every lunch hour holding a large tattered sign that read: “ ...

Mainz Bible, and the Celtic illuminated manuscript The Book of Kells,for instance. But the specimens that I’ve collected in the ...

Inc., which features photographs of the World Trade Center before and under attack, appears to be designed by a skilled Photosho ...

evangelical stereotypes. ItsHomosexuality, Is It Really—Natural? Sinful? Curable? and The Vice of Sexual Immorality are the quin ...

Racism^43 James Victore A New York street poster has got to grab viewers by the throats and knock them on their asses. Otherwise ...