Understood as a parallel aesthetic endeavors, poetry, fiction, and the essay can provide rich insights into the work of design without de-naturing its essential qualities. This panel will explore the potential of literature to reveal the social magnitude and emotional resonance of the particular practice of graphic design.
For example, Orhan Pamuk’s mystery about 16th-century Turkish illustrators, My Name is Red, offers vital insight into the values of realism and abstraction; Hans Christian Anderson’s fable of “The Pen and the Inkwell” succinctly captures the tensions of graphic production; and Simon Schama’s chapter “The Hunt for Germania” in Landscape and Memory compellingly tells the cultural history of a nation’s iconography. This panel will consider strategies for building an anthology of literature that illuminates the affective nature of graphic design and positions design in a continuum of social relationships across and through time.
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