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5. Canadian Design Today

Canada’s design is still very unfamiliar to me, who has lived in Korea. However, through this lecture, I was able to learn about the overall structure and style of the Canadian design industry….

4. Postmodernism

If modernism was based on idealism and reason, postmodernism can be seen as being born out of skepticism and suspicion of reason. It may seem a little boring and philosophical, but I always…

3. Supergraphics

Supergraphics is a unique mark of 1970s graphic design. Known for its boldness, color and size, Supergraphics takes a brighter, more optimistic view of solid monochrome European graphics. From the beginning, I found…

2. Psychedelic Design

In visual art, movements such as Pop Art, Psychedelic Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and the appeareance of Happenings, became the most significant and shape-shifting concepts of the 1960s art world. I think the background of sudden technology,…

1. New York Style and Editorial Designers

After World War II, New York emerged as an innovation in modern art. In the 1940s, New York showed a willingness to integrate new cAfter World War II, New York emerged as an…

Contemporary & Post Modernism

GlennBrown is fascinated by how an image changes when it is reproduced. Often cropped, its scale shifts as it is transferred to a new format. The texture is lost, and the color is…

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Monopoly

Behind Story of Monopoly This is Lizzie Magie, the woman who invented Monopoly. Rewind to the late 19th century, Magie was a feminist and staunch anti-capitalist. Laissez-faire capitalism was in its heyday, and…

Typography poster rationale

For this typography poster assignment, it took over 4~5 hours to design and 5 hours to research and make it. Overall, I wanted to make my poster has a good information convey layout…

Cubism, Dadaism & Surrealism

<A Sociable Eccentric> Yves Tanguy was in many respects the French quintessential Surrealist. A sociable eccentric who ate spiders as a party trick, and a close friend of Andre Breton, Tanguy was best-known…

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