An essential for graphic designers (Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition - Rick Poyner)

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Product:	Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition - Rick Poyner
Date:	29/09/00 (142 review reads)
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Advantages: key articles all in one place

Disadvantages: none

This is not a "book of new design work full of seductive imagery, ? to use a phrase from the author himself, which are all to common in the design world. Design Without Boundaries is the writings, interviews and reflections, by Rick Poynor, on some of the most important issues to affect graphic design and visual communication in the late 80?s to the mid 90?s.It explores the ways in which new experimental typography and image-making are collapsing the boundaries between art and design.
Providing analysis and criticism in the field of graphic communication in a profession which is generally lacking in both. Rick Poynor takes graphic communication beyond the ?sliver of paper? examines how it affects modern culture and society
The book has sections thematically organised under the titles of : redefinitions
international graphic design
British graphic design
image-makers
magazines,
old media/new media
crossovers

Rick Poynor a founder and editor of Eye magazine one of the most intelligent magazines on graphic design and visual communication available in Eurpoe toady.

John Thackara, Director, Netherlands Design Institute is quoted on the jacket ?If you only read one more book about graphic design this century, read this one.?
and I couldn?t agree more!

Design Without Boundaries, by Rick Poynor
Booth-Clibborn Editions; ISBN: 186154006X

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