Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

speak,” wrote the comedian Yakov Smirnoff in a 1989 New York Times
op-ed article. In the end, what happened shook the world. The short
period during which glasnost posters were designed marked a crack in the
Iron Curtain that grew larger until it shattered. Today these glasnost poster
images are a monument to the power of polemical art to change the course
of history.