Dibujo para diseñadores de moda

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

La colección Bases del Diseño explora las posibilidades creativas de los principales conceptos del diseño gráfico a través de una completa galería de ejemplos, agrupados por temas. Los innovadores trabajos que se presentan, creados por grandes profesionales contemporáneos, se acompañan de explicaciones técnicas, esquemas y consejos que permiten al lector comprender y asimilar el proceso realizado. Otros títulos de la colección: Formato, Layout, Imagen, Color e Impresión y acabados.

These powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsides whose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day of the Dead)reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In his graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas. Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this book examines his work and places it in...