Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

white and black militants were threats to a movement that most liberals of the day were unwilling to criticize.

Paper bombs (leaflets and flyers) are the least sophisticated propaganda medium in the arsenal, but they can be incisive.

explore design approaches with a blind eye toward style or ideology.

I wasn’t interested in telling them what to think as much as getting them to think along with me, and giving them a little chuckle, too,”

Centuries later, Edward Bernays, father of American public relations (and nephew of Sigmund Freud), wrote, “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the

one of America’s most influential graphic arts periodicals, PM (Production Manager), later called AD (Art Director), published bimonthly between 1934 and 1942.

Tomi Ungerer’s series of satiric posters, especially Eat,

soldier; I Want Out, by Steve Horn and Larry Dunst,

“and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.”