In Design Anthropology class, drawing feelings is an exercise students have to practice extensively, right from the first day at class. At a glimpse, it seems to be an impractical exercise, but is it really?
We are living in a new era of graphic design, and 90% of today’s designers are modernists. We are often taught that good designs are meant to be legible, readable, and useful; clearly, this has become a lodestar for the new contemporary design trend. That is totally true, but not enough. The roots of modernism are much deeper-implanted.
First, let’s have a look at history before the birth of Graphic Design. When the world had not forged this industry, when artists were still wandering around the world’s wonders, or sometimes, their own, to produce landscape arts, portraits and still-lifes as lively as possible. The artists would have just, perhaps, continued such work, had it not been for the emergence of a new perspective, one which altered the face of art at the time, paving the way for Graphic Design.
