Publisher's Synopsis
Historia del Diseo en Amrica Latina y el Caribe (History of Design in Latin America and the Caribbean) is a collective work that offers a panorama of the development of industrial and graphic design for the last fifty years. Its focus is to place the design in the frame of the economic and social policies as well as the local industrial and regional ones, and also to set the ground for a future history of the material and visual culture, from the projective perspective in Latin America. Among the Latin American countries, there are certain similarities and structural affinities that let integrate the antecedents of design. The local vision sometimes ignores that history, which we share. This project reveals the common trajectory and its peculiarities. The book is structured by a matrix of two axes. The first axis is constituted by the design histories in Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
