MIT Press, Fachbücher, After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy (Englisch, Geoff Kap...

"Is graphic design a discipline? Geoff Kaplan convenes a constellation of voices to answer the question. This thoughtful, rigorous, engaging book is the result&mdash a composite and polyphonous answer, and the rare history that's equally a guide to what comes next." &mdash David Reinfurt, Princeton University "A comprehensive, self-reflexive survey of how-we-teach-what-we-teach in graphic design. The practice of graphic design has periodically been dismissed as being ephemeral, too commercial, or purely formal. Geoff Kaplan&rsquo s collection of essays digs deep beyond that superficial plane, into the underlying rich vein of design philosophy, theory, and history." &mdash Michael Worthington, CalArts "After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet bridges multiple histories, theories, and practices to create a polyvocal anthology about the constantly shifting shape of graphic design and its porous boundaries." &mdash Mindy Seu, Rutgers University "Among its many successes, After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet, perhaps most importantly, shines a glaring light on the contemporary tendency in graphic design education to sidestep its own definition. Yet rather than exclusively cast this as a practical problem, Geoff Kaplan has brought together diverse perspectives that demonstrate how the notion of discipline should remain an open question insomuch as it directly confronts the media and ideologies wrought by, for better or worse, the broadening practices of graphic design." &mdash Ayham Ghraowi, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at VCUarts.