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Design: Critical and Primary Sources
Design: Critical and Primary Sources

D. J. Huppatz

D.J. Huppatz is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University, Australia. He has also taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has published widely in edited books and journals. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Subjects

Content Type:

Book Chapter

Period:

1980-1989

Place:

Africa

The Design Industry:

Design Education, Design Practice

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Overview of the State of Graphic Design in Africa

DOI: 10.5040/9781474282888.0012
Page Range: 41–47

The IX ICOGRADA General Assembly (Helsinki 1981) noted the dissolution of ICOGRADA’s Developing Countries Working Group which had appeared more as an abstract rather than a practical concept, and endorsed a reorientation in regional terms. The General Assembly also noted progress recorded in the regional arrangement, notably, the first regional conference on graphic design which was held at Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1980. Perhaps a direct function of the Guadalajara conference has been the establishment of a graphic design liaison network in Latin America, which, since 1980—has generated increased awareness of the role of graphic design in the cultural process, as well as increased interest and action in graphic design research aimed at identifying a purely Latin American iconography that might eventually feed the visual repertoire of local graphic designers. The relevance of such a regional development in relation to the international climate has been summerised by Peter Kneebone (ICOGRADA President 1979–81) as follows: “It is sometimes beyond the point at which international generalisation should stop that the interesting work of an international organisation can begin. It is here that international experience, stimulus and action can be present and be used in ways that are locally relevant”....

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