Transgression - Graphics and Postmodernism

Rick Poynor's cult essay on postmodernism in graphic design. Transgression is a true investigation into the heart of postmodern design, the milieu from the 1970s to the end of the 20th century. This era transformed the discipline, rejecting the canons of modernism, which dominated graphic design for decades. Rick Poynor tells with finesse and precision how graphic designers and the typographers decided to break the established rules and to experiment with new visual approaches. Each of the book's key themes (the American New Wave, punk, digital revolution of typography, grunge, the status of graphic designer-author, the trend of retro and vernacular…) is illustrated by legendary works, which revolutionized the world of visual communication. Read, commented and studied by generations of graphic design students and professionals, Transgression returns in a more accessible edition but still as rich in visual discoveries. Rick Poynor is a writer, speaker, curator and teacher. He is the founder of the magazine Eye, which he directed from 1990 to 1997. Columnist At Eye and Print, he participated in 2003 in the creation of the Design Observer site of which he is a regular collaborator. Author of numerous works on design graphic, he regularly intervenes throughout the world in events devoted to discipline.