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Celebrate the smiley face’s 60 year impact on art, music, pop and counter culture with The Sm;)e Book. In the history of graphic design, there is no other symbol that has ever held such a duality—used simultaneously as both a positive mainstream driver and a counterculture subverter of that very mainstream. The Sm;)e Book showcases an unprecedented collection of some the world’s most potent visual communicators. With introductions from authors db Burkeman and Rich Browd, the book includes work from some of the most important visual communicators of our time such as: Alex Da Corte Alfie Steiner Alicia McCarthy Aurel Schmidt BANKSY Chapman Brothers Cody Hudson Curtis Kulig Destroy All Monsters Eric Elms Erik Foss Greg Bogin INVADER James Joyce Jeremy Deller KATSU Mark Flood Misaki Kawai Norman Cook Paul Insect + BÄST Richard Prince Rob Pruitt Ron English Sadie Benning Sayre Gomez SKULLPHONE Tyrrell Winston Wolfgang Tillmans Yung Jake 1UP Crew
Celebrate the smiley face’s 60 year impact on art, music, pop and counter culture with The Sm;)e Book. In the history of graphic design, there is no other symbol that has ever held such a duality—used simultaneously as both a positive mainstream driver and a counterculture subverter of that very mainstream. The Sm;)e Book showcases an unprecedented collection of some the world’s most potent visual communicators. With introductions from authors db Burkeman and Rich Browd, the book includes work from some of the most important visual communicators of our time such as:
Alex Da Corte
Alfie Steiner
Alicia McCarthy
Aurel Schmidt
BANKSY
Chapman Brothers
Cody Hudson
Curtis Kulig
Destroy All Monsters
Eric Elms
Erik Foss
Greg Bogin
INVADER
James Joyce
Jeremy Deller
KATSU
Mark Flood
Misaki Kawai
Norman Cook
Paul Insect + BÄST
Richard Prince
Rob Pruitt
Ron English
Sadie Benning
Sayre Gomez
SKULLPHONE
Tyrrell Winston
Wolfgang Tillmans
Yung Jake
1UP Crew