When stripes of MAGENTA and CYAN catch your eyes upon seeing
the cover, you know it’s a well-designed book—“In short, to forge the new
verbal-visual vernacular.”
This book is essentially just that.
This book is essentially just that.
Written and designed by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam
Michaels, The Electric Information Age
Book explores how contemporary thinkers like McLuhan, Agel and Fiore formed
a “visual vernacular” in communicating to the masses during the Information Age.
As design students in a Publicizing Creative Works
course at Parsons The New School for Design, this is the perfect book of how
the two worlds—information and design—collided, to which blogs like these are even made
possible.
PS. Props to the dude who put the new layout together. Looks a lot better!
PS. Props to the dude who put the new layout together. Looks a lot better!
Anyways, asides from all the historical facts and information, I was
personally inspired by the amount of creative juice these thinkers had during
the 60’s and 70’s. They always experimented “for something completely
different…” and they sure did a hell of a good job.
The most inspiring part of this book to me is the 1970 graphic masterpiece
done by Agel and Fiore, collaborating with Buckminster Fuller, I Seem to Be a Verb: Environment and Man’s
Future. Inspirational quotes for creative people with big ideas, plus an
old man who looks just like the dancing old grandpa from the Six Flags commercials—how
could you possibly not be inspired?
Now tell me they don't look alike :)
Also, you guys should check out: http://fuckyeahbookarts.tumblr.com/
- Nina Choe
Now tell me they don't look alike :)
Also, you guys should check out: http://fuckyeahbookarts.tumblr.com/
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