Postmodern Graphic Design Research

The quote I have chosen is:

Stefan Sagmeister - www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/answers

• If graphic design works as a visual language, can trends enrich the design?

      Stefan: 'Yes, of course. So much of what we design is ephemeral and has to be of its time. If I see a magazine from the 60-ies now, I find it enriched by the style of its day. The same is obviously true for current work.'

Key terms: postmodern graphic design, decorative graphic design, expressive graphic design, graphic design trends, trendlist, grunge typography, kitsch

http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4514&context=etd

To help me understand this more I did some research into postmodern graphic design as it isn't something I have ever looked into in depth. I found an article online which related postmodern to contemporary graphic design which I found interesting to read. Here are the main points I picked up from it:

- 1980 postmodernism became a widely recognised yet misunderstood form of expression. 

- Characterised by conflicting ideas and notions of what the term means.

- Most critics say that it was a short lived style.

- Widespread across Europe and America from 1980 - 1990.

- Roots linked to literary analysis yet it was first demonstrated in architecture at the beginning of the 1950's

- An opportunity to break free from confines of modern movement.

- New form of visual expression.

- Rick Poynor called it an "intellectual fad"

- Critics are split into two groups = lovers and haters.