Pictoplasma / edited by Robert Klanten and Michael Mischler ; translated by Michael Mischler and Lucy Powell ; foreward by Peter Thaler
Contributor(s): Thaler, Peter [contributor]
| Klanten, Robert [editor].
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BookPublisher: Berlin : Die Gestalten, [2001]Description: 216 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3931126587 (hardback).Subject(s): Computer drawing | Cartoon characters | Clip artDDC classification: 741.6
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Pictoplasma, a collection by the eponymous Berlin-based project around Peter Thaler and the first-ever documentation of modern character design, presents a comprehensive overview of this truly global graphic language and illustrates the remarkable status figures (the picto element) with lively traits and faces (plasma) have achieved in our society, culminating in a visual feast. As likeable, global identifiers they act as indispensable mediators in the era of multimedia, serving purposes as diverse as branding, logo design, game design (Pokemon, SuperMario), web design, icons or mascots. Selected from more than 6,000 excellent entries, Pictoplasma offers both independent artists and corporations an international platform. Countless styles and techniques divide the figurative images into freehand drawings, vector, pixel, encyclopedia and 3-D styles, gaining in complexity during each respective chapter. From cartoon to collage, from graffiti to PopArt - Pictoplasma lends the world of characters a new face.
Characters contributed by artists, graphic designers, animators and production companies and can be viewed at www.pictoplasma.com.
Includes index.