Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Vernacular / The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union

Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Vernacular / The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union

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REF.EC.2318
Reference Collection
65 p. : ill. (some colored) ; 11in.
1993
Barbara Glauber
The Cooper Union
graphic design, typography
"Many contemporary graphic designers have cultivated a taste for the s-called vernacular, incorporating these 'lower' forms of visual communication into their 'high' design. Designers borrowing from these sources do so with a variety of attitudes towards their subjects: irony, nostalgia, connoisseurship, and elitism. This book and the accompanying exhibition question this relationship, taking a closer look at what is lifted, how it is separated from its original context through the filter of the designer, and the resulting shifts in meaning" -- from introduction, p. 5 The "Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Vernacular" exhibition took place at The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union from January 27-February 27 1993 in New York City.