DESIGN AT THE CROSSROADS

摘要

The final work displayed in "Graphic Design: Now in Production," housed in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's temporary quarters on Governors Island, is the designer Ji Lee's World Trade Center Logo Preservation Project, a photomontage of the Twin Towers' appearances across any number of New York City awnings, hoardings, and delivery vans. Sometimes depicted as the most leftward part of a lengthwise representation of Manhattan, elsewhere framing the center of a not-to-scale reconstituted skyline, or even blending into letterforms (e.g., the first two t's in "Manhattan Mini-Storage"), the