45 Designers// Post Modernism

Graphic design saw a massive popular raising at the end of the seventies in form of Graffiti and Hip Hop culture's rise. Graphic forms of expression became a vast everyday hobby among school kids all around the developed western countries. Alongside this 'movement', that took rebellious and even criminal cultural forms, was born the mass hobby of coding computer graphics. This phenomenon worked as a stepping stone towards the graphic infrastructure that is applied in the majority of computer interfaces today.  - Wikipedia


Jamie Reid is a great example of a post-modern graphic designer as he completely disregards the 'rules' for example, using lots of different typefaces in one design.

http://www.designhistory.org/Post_mod.html - A movement that blurred the lines between art, commerce and popular culture. After the large-scale pop art exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in 1962, Pop Art established itself as a serious, recognized form of art. This exhibition became a turning point for Modernism when a series of critics foresaw the end of modernism and the beginning of the postmodern era. Although Pop was treated more as entertainment, it had a serious impact on the period. Leading American artists of the Pop Art movement were Andy Warhol

and Roy Lichtenstein 

 April Greiman is famous for being one of the first designers to really embrace computer technology as a viable design tool.  http://captainbeefy.wordpress.com/tag/david-carson-april-greiman-reza-abedini-bronislaw-zelek-saul-bass-barnbrook-tom-eckersley-banksy-milton-glasier-alan-aboud-the-birds/

Wolfgang Weingart's work show's a disregard for the rules e.g grid system/structure and limited amount of typefaces used.