New Modernist Design

Author: Yuan Xiyang
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: New Modernism refers to a creative attitude where these designers aim to return to the pursuit goals of modernist pioneers and thereby transcend postmodernism. New Modernism was first created by some editors of design journals (such as Raggi, the editor of MODO) and Pesch at the International Design Association in 1981.
Each volume of this series begins by analyzing the important background factors that contribute to the formation of ideas and trends, such as different political economic systems, production methods, sociocultural and traditional contexts, ethnic and regional characteristics. It further elaborates on more fundamental factors like lifestyles, aesthetics, science, technology, and semantics, and their impact on the formation of design movements. On this basis, it summarizes the formal techniques and stylistic characteristics of this trend, and provides detailed introductions to its representative theoretical viewpoints, significant events, sub-streams, major designers, and representative works.
The series is richly illustrated and organized by volume, compiling key facts and perspectives from published monographs and literature both domestically and internationally. It introduces analyses from design theorists, historians, and critics, as well as the diverse attitudes of different schools toward tradition, functionality, materials, structures, decoration, form, and visual language.
The series elaborates on controversial viewpoints, clarifying their context and structure, analyzing their fundamental characteristics, and identifying the position of this trend in the history of contemporary and modern design, as well as its relationships with other schools.