A history of design teaching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s told
through essays, interviews, remembrances, and primary materials.
With contributions by more than forty of the most influential voices in
art, architecture, and design, After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet
traces a history of design teaching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s
through essays, interviews, and primary materials. Geoff Kaplan has
gathered a multigenerational group of theorists and practitioners to
explore how the evolution of graphic design pedagogy can be placed
within a conceptual and historical context.
At a time when all choices and behaviors are putatively curated, and
when "design thinking" is recruited to solve problems from climate
change to social media optimization, the volume's contributors examine
how design's self-understandings as a discipline have changed and how
such changes affect the ways in which graphic design is being
historicized and theorized today.