scholarly journals Kicks in Style: A Punk Design Aesthetic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Bestley
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Industry Professionals

In parallel to the broad diversity of musical styles that accompanied the early punk explosion, the graphic design and visual communication strategies tell a similarly wide-ranging story. This chapter explores the complex relationship between the stereotype of “authentic” do-it-yourself (DIY) punk graphics and the music industry professionals who created many of the visual conventions that came to be closely associated with the subculture. While the groundswell of amateur artists, illustrators, photographers, typographers, and other cultural producers inspired by the subculture to create a new aesthetic should not be underestimated, their story has become almost the default history of punk graphic design. The role of design professionals—often with many years of experience within the music industry—has frequently been overlooked, an embarrassing secret kept in the closet for fear of undermining notions of authenticity and punk’s revolutionary rhetoric.

Becoming Zarathustra

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Kellens
Keyword(s):  
Complex Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking

This chapter examines the role of ritual and sacrifice in the most sacred Zoroastrian literature, the Gâthâs in order to explore the complex relationship between the figure of Zarathustra and the human ritual officiant. The chapter presents a very Lincoln-ian sort of history of the field of Zoroastrian studies itself, interrogating the contexts and biases of particular scholars in their various readings and misreadings of the tradition. At the same time, it offers a new way of thinking about the figure of Zarathustra himself, who is best understood not as the semi-historical “founder” of Zoroastrianism but rather as the mythical personality into which the human officiant is himself transfigured through the ritual operations.

scholarly journals Challenging the Environmental History of the Cerrado: Science, Biodiversity and Politics on the Brazilian Agricultural Frontier

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Dutra e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Brazilian Cerrado ◽  
Agricultural Frontier ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Environmental Interactions ◽  
History Of

This article presents an overview of the environmental history of the Brazilian Cerrado, its environmental characteristics and the processes related to the historical change in the landscapes of this endangered ecosystem. It highlights competing classifications of the Cerrado, the role of politics in establishing them, and the environmental consequences of such classifications. More than just describing an environment, classifying an ecosystem is a political process that involves complex socio-environmental interactions. The sources used points out the different attempts to get to know and "conquered" the Cerrado, bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from a variety of actors and institutions. Historiographic challenges go beyond environmental descriptions in that the socio-environmental interactions that made up this unique ecosystem are equally complex. This paper’s conclusions reinforce the interdisciplinary role of environmental history in the study of ecosystems and the complex relationship between culture and nature.

History Repeating Itself. The function of turning points and continuity in three historical narratives on operetta

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Mikael Strömberg
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The article’s primary aim is to discuss the function of turning points and continuity within historiography. That a historical narrative, produced at a certain time and place, influence the way the historian shapes and develops the argument is problematized by an emphasis on the complex relationship between turning points and continuity as colligatory concepts within an argumentative framework. Aided by a number of examples from three historical narratives on operetta, the article stresses the importance of creating new narratives about the past. Two specific examples from the history of operetta, the birth of the genre and the role of music, are used to illustrate the need to revise not only the use of source material and the narrative strategy used, but also how the argument proposed by the historian gathers strength. The interpretation of turning points and continuity as colligatory concepts illustrate the need to revise earlier historical narratives when trying to counteract the repetitiveness of history.

GRAPHIC DESIGN OF THE VISUAL COMMUNICATION OF THE EXHIBITION OF THE VILAKAS COUNTY MUSEUM

2018 ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Santa Miezite ◽  
Diāna Apele
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
School History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
The Way

Communication is a conversation, communication, the way information is provided. The museum's exposure language must be aesthetic, informative, cognitive process and memory stimulation.The designer, who designs and offers museum–oriented and up–to–date design solutions, plays a major role in solving the issues. The designer, in collaboration with the museum's staff, should prepare materials and programs for the society that are in line with the museum's goals and objectives and which society would also consider worthwhile. The authors of the article have learned the wishes of the director of Vilakas County Museum and information about the graphic design requirements of ergonomic visual communication have been gathered, and the school history of the Vilakas County Museum has been developed.The purpose of the article is to study the materials necessary for the exhibition of the Vilakas Region Museum and testimonies, information on visual communication in museums, analysis of interactions between graphic design and visual communication, as well as to analyze the visual design of the graphic design for the Vilakas Museum exposition on the history of regional schools.Research methods are the study of literature and internet sources and analyzes the opinion of the director of the museum.

scholarly journals Histories of Visual Communication Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dori Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Design History ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shared Context

In this article, the history of visual communication design provides an area of thematic convergence. The research represented here engages typographic communication, an area of investigation familiar to the journal's readership. Yet its significance extends beyond illuminating the historical context of singular designs or designers. Collectively, the authors in this issue join a broader and sustained interdisciplinary conversation between design history and visual communication design practice. Situating their research relative to this shared context expands its relevance beyond their discrete areas of focus. At its inception, the history of visual communication design relied on the intuition of practitioners and the connoisseurship of collectors; its narrative prioritized aesthetic styles and eminent designers. The first sustained calls to move beyond such a conceptualization emerged in 1983 at Coming of Age: The First Symposium on the History of Graphic Design.

scholarly journals Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field: black lawyers and the Bantustans

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Legal Activism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Formation

AbstractThe history of South Africa's urban-based ‘struggle lawyers’ – a trajectory epitomized by Nelson Mandela – is much discussed by historians and biographers, reflecting a broader vein of historiography that celebrates anti-colonial legal activism. However, it was South Africa's ‘Native Reserves’ and Bantustans that produced the majority of African lawyers for much of the twentieth century. Indeed, two-thirds of the African justices who have sat on the post-apartheid Constitutional Court either practised or trained in the Bantustans during the apartheid era. The purpose of this article is thus to reappraise South Africa's ‘legal field’ – the complex relationship between professional formation, elite reproduction and the exercise of political power – by tracing the ambiguous role played by the Native Reserves/Bantustans in shaping the African legal profession across the twentieth century. How did African lawyers, persistently marginalized by century-long patterns of exclusion, nevertheless construct an elite profession within the confines of segregation and apartheid? How might we link the histories of the Bantustans with the better-known ‘struggle historiography’ that emphasizes the role of political and legal activism in the cities? And what are the implications of South Africa's segregated history for debates about the ‘decolonization’ of the legal profession in the post-apartheid era?

scholarly journals Perancangan Media Komunikasi Visual Pada Museum Uang Sumatera

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 356-369
Author(s):  
Arif Budiman ◽  
PG. Wisnu Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Graphic Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
North Sumatra

The Sumatran Money Museum (MUS) in Medan, North Sumatra is one of the self-managed museums, with a collection of thematic and distinctive artifacts, namely the Sumatran currency! The official currency that was issued after independence in 1947-1949. This is among MUS's strengths. However, the problem that arises is that MUS has not yet maximally arranged aspects of visual communication such as consistency in implementing corporate identity, stationary, and graphic signaling (sign system), including the absence of graphic information (infographic) information on the history of the Sumatran currency. This study provides solutions to problem solving through designing a visual communication media based on identity (brand identity) and prioritizing informationfriendly principles, especially for young millennials. The problem in this study was answered by using the design method by following the stages of the graphic design process from Amy E. Arntson namely Research, Thumbnails; Roughs, Comprehensives and Ready for Press. The solution obtained from this research is to design a corporate identity service. Consists of the logo, stationary, merchandise and graphic information of the museum. As a first step in building the MUS brand identity.

scholarly journals Pengertian Art Direction dan Peranan Seorang Art Director dalam Periklanan

Humaniora ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Aryo Bimo
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Graphic Designer

Nowadays advertising is a field that is progressing rapidly and is quite popular majors marked by numerous educational institutions both private and the country that opened specialization advertising. One of the positions in the field of advertising that quite popular is Art Director. The skill of art directing is a bit much has been represented in the department of Visual Communication Design or Graphic design. But it is sometimes still confused between the duties and role of an art director and a graphic designer. This article gives a general overview of what is meant by Art Director as well as roles and duties.  

scholarly journals THE MERGING OF MUSIC CRITICISM AND MUSIC PROMOTION: CONVERGED MUSIC INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS ON FACEBOOK

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madis Järvekülg
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Music Scenes ◽  
The One ◽  
Music Entrepreneurs ◽  
Industry Professionals ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

This paper explores the changing socio-cultural dynamic between local music entrepreneurs and journalists/critics on Facebook in Estonia. Through the analysis of 32 semi-structured interviews with music industry professionals and experts and observations of their activities on Facebook, the study identifies the decreasing distance between music criticism and music promotion. On the one hand, the music critics once envisioned as ‘autonomous gatekeepers’ (Hirsch, 1972) find it increasingly hard to transfer their musical authority, expertise and perceived independence to the commercially driven social media environment. As a result, some of them have taken up entrepreneurship themselves, converged their various identities by mixing their critical/evaluative practices as critics and business-oriented practices as entrepreneurs. On the other hand, some niche music entrepreneurs are stepping into the role of cultural authorities by mobilizing and catering to specific taste cultures and genre communities by becoming expert gatekeepers in their own right, despite being compromised by their business interest. In this context, it is no more useful to talk about the ‘mutual dependency’ of the music press and industry PR (Forde, 2001; Negus, 1992). Rather, among the tightly interwoven music scenes like the ones in Estonia, where many players adopt a variety of different and often conflicting roles (especially on Facebook), we should recognize the complete convergence of music promotion and music criticism and the loss of critical distance and autonomy altogether.

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