Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, important American graphic design was thought to occur exclusively in New York City. But San Francisco, for one, has been changing that. Starting about 20 years ago, a new generation of designers came of age in the Bay Area, formally trained but unconventional by temperament. At the same time, decoration became fashionable again, modernist doctrine loosened, and a sort of regional self-infatuation overtook the arts. Baby-boomer entrepreneurs, with their hip clothing companies, upscale shops and software firms, became prime graphic-design clients. By the early 1980s the most talented of the San Francisco designers were creating...
Both Vanderbyl and Manwaring are now sufficiently sure of their visions and skills to move beyond the traditional boundaries of graphic design. Vanderbyl is creating showrooms, chairs and tables and, for Esprit, a new line of bed linens and towels. Manwaring is designing rugs, signs and building details. In his work with architects up to now, he says, "I have come in and bolted on things afterward." More and more he is working for developers directly. "I want to come in earlier -- to try to make it look not like an afterthought. We add the human scale and the life...
...computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in the agency's sixth-floor "war room," it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U.S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead...
Ever since former Yankee Jim Bouton published his tell-all Ball Four in 1970, each succeeding season chronicle has been more graphic than the one before. The first entry in the 1987 baseball biography race came from Lenny Dykstra, a part-time centerfielder for The New York Mets. According to the Harper's index, the word "fuck" appears 160 times in the slim volume. That's a lot of profanity for a player with 127 hits in his career...
This style can be effective and powerful. In Angel Heart, it is simply ridiculous. The film's momentum is constantly interrupted by sensational images, from jejune religious symbolism to graphic violence and incest, none of which are any more exciting than Angel's plodding investigation...