Exploring an unjustly overlooked figure in 20th century British visual culture This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King 1943 2016 whose fascinating career bridged journalism graphic design photography and collecting King launched his career at Britain s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s starting as a designer and later branching out into image led journalism He developed a particular interest in revolutionary Russia and began amassing a collection of graphic art and photographs ultimately accumulating around 250 000 images that he shared with news outlets Throughout his life King blended political activism with his graphic design work creating anti Apartheid and anti Nazi posters covers for books on Communist history album artwork for The Who and Jimi Hendrix catalogues on Russian art and society for the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford and typographic covers for the left wing magazine City Limits This well researched and finely illustrated publication ties together King s accomplishments as a visual historian artist journalist and activist
Vaughan Oliver is an influential member of the small group that changed the face of British graphics in the 1980s. Designed by Oliver himself, and written by Rick Poynor, this book illustrates the his intensely visual and emotive work in detail for the first time -- most notably his sumptuous sleeve imagery for London''s 4AD label.
En los últimos veinticinco años el campo del diseño gráfico ha experimentado una profunda transformación. Este libro es el primer estudio crítico que analiza estos cambios a nivel internacional y en profundidad. Identifica y describe conceptos como deconstruccion, apropiacion, autoria, etc... fundamentales en la cronologia del diseño grafico posmoderno y ofrece al lector, con el apoyo de innumerables ejemplos ilustrados, un analisis de su evolucion hasta la actualidad.