Graphic Novelist I-II-III

U-X-L Graphic Novelist yang didistribusikan melalui jaringan penerbit Thomson-Gale menunjukkan tanda-tanda bahwa komik sebagai novel grafis semakin diakui oleh lingkungan akademis sebagai objek kajian yang mempunyai nilai penting bagi masyarakat dan ilmu pengetahuan manusia itu sendiri.

The System of Comics

Komik, atau sekarang lebih dikenali dalam bentuk dan isinya yang lebih dewasa dengan sebutan 'graphic novel' arti sederhananya adalah cerita novel (dapat sesuai untuk remaja atau dewasa) yang dituturkan dalam bentuk grafis atau gambar ilustrasi.

Sistem Komik ini adalah karya Thierry Groensteen, kalau komik tebal Craig Thompson 'Blanket' menandakan komik mulai diakui sebagai budaya visual yang berpengaruh, demikian kata John Naisbitt di salah satu bagian buku terbarunya 'MindSet!', maka kajian akademik yang bertumpu pada semiotik seni komik ini boleh dikatakan sebagai petanda bahwa komik aka 'graphic novel' ini sudah ditanggapi serius sebagai sebuah disiplin ilmu yang dinilai penting.

Good: Ethics & Graphic Design

Is it right to use good design for bad purposes?

In a world where awareness of ethics is increasing—but actual ethics themselves may be decreasing—where does graphic design fit in? What is the responsibility of the graphic designer? Is it right to use good design to further evil in the world, merely for the sake of being a good designer? Without dictating a moral stance, Good: Ethics and Graphic Design explores the idea of “being good” and uses what-if scenarios to explore the ramifications of different business decisions. Author Lucienne Roberts draws readers into a debate about professional “goodness” versus personal “goodness” and the relationship between ethics and design practice.

• Design theory as philosophy
• Designers, typographers, photographers, and illustrators define "being good"
• Fascinating for students and designers in business

Lucienne Roberts is the founder of the design studio sans+baum, which focuses on projects outside the commercial mainstream. A contributor to Eye and Grafik magazines, she lives in London, England.

excerpt from: http://www.watsonguptill.com/detail.html?session=d39e5952c16a2efc5e6f2281a1be0077&cat=9&id=2-940373-14-0

Looking Closer 5

There would be no serious design without serious design criticism, once Massimo Vignelli challenges us, and until now it remains unfulfilled. Looking Closer has been published for four volumes, and this latest one a compilation of design criticism from 2001-2005 is bringing the graphic design issues into the next level of seriousness of criticism.
There are six section which give annotation to graphic design as six topics. Graphic design as a system, as culture, as fashion, as politics, as passion, and as idea.
Looking closer was a room for intellectual battle of graphic design issues that brought divergent thinking into one purpose: serious graphic design reflection on society and culture where they belongs.