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Michael Horsham

    Styly 20. a 30. let
    Die Kunst der Shaker
    Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication
    '20s & '30s Style
    • 2022

      Since the beginning of our time as humans, we have never stopped making images and inventing channels for visual communication. From the cave dweller creating paintings on a wall at the dawn of civilized time to Instagram influencers today, technology may keep changing, but our need to reach one another, to move one another, to persuade, inform and entertain, has never been so vital. 'Hello Human' traverses the entire landscape of our diverse, expansive and yet familiar means of visual communication. From the use of the human hand as a symbol, the power and use of gestures and the genesis of the printed book, to the movement between dimensions of reality and the digital realm, pixilation, optics and the understanding of light, Horsham takes his readers on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns, laying out a temporal narrative in the form of an intricate map of objects, events and people tied together by a common purpose - to communicate

      Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication
    • 1989

      '20s & '30s Style

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      "20s & 30s style covers a score of topics which made these two decades famous-an d infamous: political upheavqals and social advances; the silver screen and the wondrous wireless; the rising power of advertising in the ever-growing print and other media; the stark Modern Movement in architecture and the stylish Moderne in design. this chronicle of recent times-gone-by, related with lively text and lavish full colour illustrations, is sure to be a fascinating, evocative and informative volume."--BOOK JACKET.

      '20s & '30s Style