Word: postmodernity
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...Japan serenely sails. It makes you wonder if most of us have still not figured out the question of 1962, or if the answer to it is so radical that we miss it. Could it be that an old society is leading us into a postmodern age, one where the world of politics, something that we have assumed for 200 years was the wellspring of national success or failure, is somehow just not that important...
...Postmodern Pastor With evangelical christians routinely trashed by the media, it was refreshing to read your positive and evenhanded article on Rick Warren, a humble man working his hardest to make a difference for the poor [Aug. 18]. Now there's something that people on both sides of the political aisle can get behind. Andy Horvath, Elverson, Pennsylvania...
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...common visual identity. This took place not only at the very moment that Western consumers began exhibiting unprecedented curiosity about Chinese belief systems and culture, but also at a time when multinational brands needed a sinicized graphic language in order to address hundreds of millions of Chinese shoppers. A postmodern Chinese style subsequently entered the global marketplace, appropriating elements of brushstroke calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, imperial and folk art, Shanghai Art Deco imagery, China Coast painting and the political art of the Cultural Revolution, while applying Western typographical ideas to Chinese characters...
...however, the post-postmodern phase of the genre that readers will encounter in 3030: New Graphic Design in China. This thought-provoking anthology is edited by the talented Hong Kong designer Javin Mo and brings together the work of 30 of his generational peers from mainland China - designers aged around 30 and therefore born at the dawn of the country's economic liberalization. Very little of the book consists of applied graphics - the retail posters, brochures, advertisements, packaging and point-of-sale material that are the designer's daily duty. Instead, the work is mostly theoretical: experimental typography, avant-garde...