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These powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsides whose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day of the Dead)reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In his graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas. Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this book examines his work and places it in...

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

Aportaciones al primer trabajo de nivel industrial de impresión con tipos móviles; historia de la imprenta y el diseño –desde el punto de vista tipográfico– salpicada de aspectos históricos, tecnológicos y tipográficos que hacen más amena su lectura.

Henry Petroski demuestra en este ensayo que el avance tecnológico y la mejora en el diseño es más una reacción ante la frustración por algo que no funciona bien, que una forma de responder a nuevas necesidades. A lo largo del libro se destaca que no existe un camino más seguro a la ruina que el crear a partir de éxitos pasados; de esta manera el autor arroja una nueva luz sobre algunos fracasos espectaculares: desde los desastres de los transbordadores espaciales hasta la caída de las torres gemelas de Nueva York.