Overview
Celebrate the smiley face's 60 year impact on art, music, pop and counter culture with The Sm;)e Book. In the history of graphic design, there is no other symbol that has ever held such a duality-used simultaneously as both a positive mainstream driver and a counterculture subverter of that very mainstream. The Sm;)e Book showcases an unprecedented collection of some the world's most potent visual communicators. With introductions from authors db Burkeman and Rich Browd, the book includes work from some of the most important visual communicators of our time such as:Alex Da CorteAlfie SteinerAlicia McCarthyAurel SchmidtBANKSYChapman BrothersCody HudsonCurtis KuligDestroy All MonstersEric ElmsErik FossGreg BoginINVADERJames JoyceJeremy DellerKATSUMark FloodMisaki KawaiNorman CookPaul Insect + BÄSTRichard PrinceRob PruittRon EnglishSadie BenningSayre GomezSKULLPHONETyrrell WinstonWolfgang TillmansYung Jake1UP Crew
Celebrate the smiley face’s 60 year impact on art, music, pop and counter culture with The Sm;)e Book. In the history of graphic design, there is no other symbol that has ever held such a duality—used simultaneously as both a positive mainstream driver and a counterculture subverter of that very mainstream. The Sm;)e Book showcases an unprecedented collection of some the world’s most potent visual communicators. With introductions from authors db Burkeman and Rich Browd, the book includes work from some of the most important visual communicators of our time such as:
- Alex Da Corte
- Alfie Steiner
- Alicia McCarthy
- Aurel Schmidt
- BANKSY
- Chapman Brothers
- Cody Hudson
- Curtis Kulig
- Destroy All Monsters
- Eric Elms
- Erik Foss
- Greg Bogin
- INVADER
- James Joyce
- Jeremy Deller
- KATSU
- Mark Flood
- Misaki Kawai
- Norman Cook
- Paul Insect + BÄST
- Richard Prince
- Rob Pruitt
- Ron English
- Sadie Benning
- Sayre Gomez
- SKULLPHONE
- Tyrrell Winston
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Yung Jake
- 1UP Crew
- | Author: DB Burkeman, Rich Browd
- | Publisher: Blurring Books
- | Publication Date: Feb 18, 2021
- | Number of Pages:
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781736156209
- | ISBN-10: 1736156209