Regular Graphic Design Today

Regular Graphic Design Today, looks at the shifts which have taken place: socially, aesthetically, and culturally in graphic design/visual communication, through current designer’s work. Work which has been shaped by “mass-culture, sub-culture, context, aesthetics of reception and connection” (François Rappo). The collection of pieces also aims to identify a “turning point” of “new observations”, François Rappo [Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Head of the Graphic Design Department at ECAL], suggests in the opening preface. The collection also displays the ways in which different fields of design: illustration, new media, etc, feed off each other, to strengthen and diversify the development of the discipline.

Ludovic Balland, Regular Graphic Design Today © GESTALTEN, 2010

ONLAB – Nicolas Bourquin, Regular Graphic Design Today © GESTALTEN, 2010

Regular Graphic Design Today, can be summed up quite nicely by one of Robert Klanten‘s quotes featured in his introduction: current graphic design shown here displays “the contemporary designers who are creating the basis today for what we will consider as graphic design tomorrow”.

The work featured ranges from experimental and strange to traditional and conventional. With featured designs by: Base Design, Buro Reng, Mind Design, Calle Enström, Leslie David, Pixelgarten, David Pearson, and others.
Regular Graphic Design Today, provides a fantastic resource for the current state of graphic design, as well as exploring the issues which face those working in the industry, across different design fields.

EMPK – Diego Bellorin, Regular Graphic Design Today © GESTALTEN, 2010

Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Mollard
Foreword by: François Rappo (ECAL)
Language: English

Release: September 2009
Price: € 49,90
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 288 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-253-9

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