The lecture focused mainly on the contemporary elements of design; the rigidness and form of post modern themes, simple and clean designs from America and Germany, following the Bauhaus and Swiss philosophies of design.
However, the emergence of the more rebellious and less rigid forms of graphic design that began to emerge in the latter part of the 1900s were omitted or otherwise not touched upon, focusing on the cleaner and more refined designs that would clash (and do clash) with this 'unconditional' philosophy of design.
Perhaps, what we know today as 'Post-Modernism', the Swiss and Bauhaus schools of thought, are really just a slightly more contemporary continuation of Modernism; and this less rigid form of design, that practitioners like David Carson and Andy Worhol subscribe to, often created with little to no formal training, can be seen as an extension or continuation of the Dada-ism trends that tried to break away from the mainstream and provide a more emotional and person form of expression communication in art, as well as a much more raw one, coinciding greatly with the punk movement that was sweeping across the western world at the time these early designs began to make it to the public eye.
Perhaps now Post-Modernism is the culmination of the radical experimentation mixed with the more rigid and 'tried and tested' methods of the last century, the current standpoint in the long, winding evolution of Graphic Design as a discipline and its own art-form.
