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With around \u003cstrong\u003e3,500 seminal pieces\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e78 landmark projects\u003c\/strong\u003e, year-by-year spreads and profiles of industry leaders, it shows how graphic design shaped contemporary society from the \u003cstrong\u003e1960s until today\u003c\/strong\u003e, from the \u003cstrong\u003ehippie movement\u003c\/strong\u003e to new forms of visual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe decades it spans saw psychedelic posters and protest graphics, sweeping corporate identity programs, transit maps, record sleeves and magazine covers, and then the arrival of the personal computer and the internet. The spreads pictured here jump from a lion-faced Almanaque poster to bold typographic experiments, a psychedelic Dylan poster, the New York subway System Map, a 1991 spread of digital-era work and a 2018 spread of contemporary identities. It reads like a timeline of how the world learned to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe year-by-year format is what makes it work. You can follow a single idea, like the grid or the hand-drawn letter, as it fades out and comes back, and watch design react to politics, technology and pop culture almost in real time. The landmark project features slow you down at the right moments, so it is as good for serious study as it is for flipping on a slow afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vandal.la\/collections\/signals\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, this is the reference for the visual era most of us grew up inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy graphic design since 1960 still matters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe visual language of the last six decades is the language everyone working today speaks, whether they know it or not. 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