Everything, All the Time, Everywhere - Stuart Jeffries nature The NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual

The NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual contains scans of Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda’s (Unimark) modernist masterpiece

wovon der Bär jemals zu träumen gewagt hätte

hair and skin in almost abstract form

was also hip to the power of visual representation

Everything, All the Time, Everywhere - Stuart Jeffries nature The NYCTA Graphics Standards ManualPostmodernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, postmodernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was the forcing ground of post truth, by means of which western values were turned upside down. But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In this brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries