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[lascitasdelashoras]

Lars Müller BOOKS Analogue Reality

[997]

[drawdownbooks]

Poster Collection 33: Ja! Nein! Yes! No! Swiss Posters for Democracy www.draw-down.com

The Swiss population is called upon to participate actively in political decision-making processes through regular campaigns. These campaigns are often concerned with issues that stir up heated emotions and lead to ideological battles. #Campaign posters, which have influenced opinion-making since the beginning of the 20th century, bear testimony to direct democracy. This special form of #political propaganda—prominently associated with #Switzerland—is a sensitive indicator of socio-political moods and reflects both national mentalities and global tendencies. Ja! Nein! Yes! No! #Swiss Posters for Democracy reveals the visual argumentation strategies and rhetorical approaches that have shaped the Swiss campaign poster from 1918 to the present. Clichéd exaggerations, undifferentiated simplifications, a repertoire of drastic motifs and abridged #slogans correspond to the laws of the medium, which is oriented towards a manipulative appeal to the masses. Appeals to a sense of unity focus primarily on emotions rather than rational enlightenment. Subtly condensed messages or graphically innovative language are hardly to be found in campaign #posters. And yet many renowned #designers created works that have inscribed themselves in the collective visual memory of the Swiss population and have become icons of #Swiss poster design.

[speakspeak]

Jasper Morrison — A Book of Things

[robert-oconnell]

Astrid van Baalen and Hester Aardse

Findings on Elasticity

2010

Publisher: Lars Müller

[ecallibrary]

ECAL DESIGN READER 2016

White 白

By Kenya Hara

Published by Lars Müller Publishers, 2010

‘White’ is not a book about colors, it’s about the idea of ‘White’ and ‘Emptiness’. In fact, the character ‘白’ for white is part of the compound character for emptiness. This book has been making me think about connections between emptiness, desire, design, and a minimalist style- I consider minimalism and emptiness share some roots together but has different spirits. Here’s a bit part from the book “The roots of expressions like … ‘less is more’ are subtly different than those that underlie emptiness. Emptiness does not merely imply simplicity of form, logical sophistication and the like. Rather, emptiness provides a space within which our imaginations can run free, vastly enriching our powers of perception and our mutual comprehension. Emptiness is this potential.”

ECAL / YouJung Jeong

[so-books]

Shades of Time | Annelies Strba

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