ILLU-2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Carlo Mccormick, Graphic Design, Surrealism
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Veronique vienne: illustrate: give them what they never knew they wanted, 2000. The joy of sex contained more than 100 explicit illustrations. The medium of illustrations is rarely used to provoke nowadays. Sold 10 million copies before the end of a decade: as directors think of illustrations as an extension of graphic design (as many have thought of illustration as) Graphic design and illustration are blurring into the same career. The chances of making a significant contribution culturally lowered. Illustrations no longer stand on their own: no longer finding the nuances of visual information hidden in a drawing. As soon as illustrators become icons, their illustrations would only be served as the brand imagery they helped to create. Nothing can be more empty today than underground: colonized beyond recognition. Understanding matters less than action in the underground* world of art, of people. Individuated meaning is lost and collectives that don"t want to belong.
