La enseñanza del diseño en comunicación visual

1st number of the series printed 10 years ago of an anthology of selected articles written in 1997 and 1998 by members of the Master's degree academic staff. The texts are research works on the different aspects related with the conservation of the cultural heritage, particularly with the urban architectural patrimony.

Organized chronologically, the aerial photographs that make up this extraordinary collection chart the development of the capital of Colombia over a period of 50 years, from 1935 to 1985. The explosive growth of the city, both formally and informally, transformed it from a provincial town of only 300,000 to the hypnotic megacity it became by the end of the century, when its population had reached seven million. With a focus on the urban and architectural transformations, this collection of photos serves as visual testimony that progress can come with costs as well as benefits. Organizadas...

Que debe hacer el diseno para solucionar su(s) problema(s)? Es necesario saberlo para poder juzgar si los problemas estan realmente solucionados o, lo que es lo mismo, para efectuar una evaluacion posterior a la ocupacion del entorno (...). Esto es esencial, ya que todo diseno puede considerarse una hipotesis de la forma: "Si se hace esto y lo otro, ocurrira esto y aquello." Pero luego hace falta demostrarlo. Solo asi uno sera capaz de encadenar exitos fiables y previsibles (...) Los objetivos han de ser definidos de forma explicita y su validez justificada, haciendo referencias al...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿