Somewhere along the well-trodden path marked by El Lissitzky and Lester Beall walks Shepard Fairey. And, like the famous propaganda artists of yesteryear, Fairey prefers red and has a flair for dramatic perspective—although that is where the similarities end. His latest poster coincides with a new grassroots initiative by moveon.org titled Power Up America, and [...]
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On the Fast Company blog, Valerie Casey has written a deliberately provocative piece about the evolution (or lack thereof) of product design aesthetics over the past decade. Having recently judged the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), she observes a striking degree of stylistic continuity across a diverse range of objects, which is demonstrated via a [...]
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I have seen the future. And it looks a lot like the past, only different. Old is the new new. In the future, history is remixed with the recent past to reflect a present that claims no distinct visual language or critical position of its own—unless you view this condition as such.
The virtual intersection of [...]
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