Lecture April 14

Here are some key point in tonights lecture:

Postmodernism is not a style, a group movtivated by some common understandings.

Technology takes over the normal everyday lives

Idea of knowledge,power

period of underground cartoons

Styles of graphic design appeal to the counterculture youth, and the dizzying euphoria of the era.

Wolfgang weigngart rejected the right angle intuitive design richness of visual effect and broad technical knowledge.

New Wave typography new approach to typography in the late 70s and early 80s

new wave: wide letter spacing, bold stair stepped rules, rule lines punctuating space, diagonal type, mixing typefaces or weight changes within words

textural patterns

like the music postmodernism in 80s does not comprise a single unified style but a conspicuous group of trends.

the phonic alphabet

Derrida's Grammatology

grunge movement

deconstruction, neo mania of type design

history can be recoded

David Carson

mixes codes in the music underground

challenging hierarchies

fragmentation in the 90s

high low juxapositions

In todays class we went over alot about how pop culture plays a big role in graphic design. I enjoyed looking at all the posters how they have changed from each decade. My favorite of them all would be the ones in the 70s because i like the colors they used and how free formed everything looked and they were all very youthful. I also as well liked the design on the album covers for the music underground. You can see many changes from each each decade and all have to do what is going on during that time which was pretty interesting to me.