The Charter of Graphic Design, Twenty-Five Years Ago

A Re-Reading

Keywords: Charter of Graphic Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, Disciplinary Foundation, Design Culture

Abstract

The text by Giovanni Baule, a re-reading of the Charter of Graphic Design (La Carta del Progetto Grafico) by one of this document’s main proponents, twenty-five years ago, is an extension of this issue of «AIS/Design. Storia e ricerche» entitled "Designers and Writing in the Twentieth Century".

The text is available only in Italian.

Author Biography

Giovanni Baule, Politecnico di Milano

Full Professor of Industrial Design at the School of Design (Politecnico di Milano) where he has been President of the Degree Courses in Communication Design since its establishment and co-coordinator of the Doctorate in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication. Visual communications expert, he deals with the theory and methods of communication design; he is the promoter of the Design Communication Center for the Territory - DCxT. Scientific director of the Communication Design series by Franco Angeli, he is a member of the scientific committee of MuVi - International exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music and Scientific Institutional Partner of the «International Journal of McLuhan Studies». From 1985 to 2008 he was director of «Linea Grafica» (XIV Compasso d’Oro), from 1990 to 1996 he was director of «Area». A former member of the Scientific Committee of the Ferrara Illustration Museum and of the Steering Committee of ADI, the Italian Association for Industrial Design, he is an honorary member of AIAP, the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design.

Published
2015-09-30