Apr. 14, 2010

• Postmodernism
• Birth of pop
• Wes Wilson
• Victor Moscoso
• New way of typography
• Computer as a design tool
• William Kuntz
• Rosmiare Tissi
• April Grieman
• Paula Scher
• Herbert Matter
• Musical typographic of the 80’s
• Jacques Derrida
• Ed Fella
• David Carson
• Tibor Kalman
• Post-structuralism
• The 90’s

Today we learn about post-modernism and all the techniques that were used in this time from the 60's to the 90's and the present day. The postmodernism started after the vietnam war, and also after this war there was a break between studies and college, people didn't had money to pay for college.
TV and media you see the birth of pop, developed a culture, the tool changes us and we change the tool.
The 60’s were the roots of the postmodernism, a new pluralism emerged, music style, Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso created the experimental alternative publishing.
The beetles in their yellow submarine lift the pushpin monthly graphic design.
New way of typography approach widely imitated in practice and education forming a new approach to typography in the late 70’s and early 80’s.The west was more receipted to the new typographic designs than the east coast because of the culture.
For the first time computer is used as the typographer and make designs, Wide letter spacing, bold straight lines punctuating space diagonal type, maxing typefaces or weight changes within words type reversed from a series of bars.
William Kuntz, New Wave typography, in the Swiss style but expanded.
Rosmiare Tissi, The idea of playfulness is the hallmark of her design.
April Grieman, New wave basel Studio in LA took ideas, early days of the computer, first with the paint boxes and later with the first Machintoshs.
History of art and design become a vast archive to be quoted appropriated and reused.
Underground music, the musical typographic of the 80’s Postmodernism does not comprise a single unified style– but a conspicuous group of trends– retro, punk, grunge, beach, techno, parody, and pastiche.
Jacques Derrida, called the study of writing Grammatology- writing was a distinctive mode of representation.
The 90’s a rethinking of the ways order can be achieved, fragmentation and the electronic media.

The role of the graphic designer will be seriously challenged in the 21st century, designers will need to have something to contribute other than basic production skills. Designers no longer work with stable flat compositions but instead conceived of graphic systems that coordinate multiple back-stage tasks.