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"In Borrowed Design, Steven Heller and Julie Lasky offer a critical assessment of the use and abuse of what designers employ or ""borrow"" to creatae their works. Contemporary designers often engage historical styles for their own objectives without fully understanding a style's original context of purpose. Borrowed Design is an invaluable source for any student or professional in graphic or fine arts who intends to establish personal guidelines regarding the appropriate use of history in their work."
Textbooks as Propaganda analyses post-Second World War Polish school textbooks to show that Communist indoctrination started right from the first grade. This indoctrination intensified as students grew older, but its general themes and major ideas were consistent regardless of the age of the readers and the discipline covered. These textbooks promoted the new, post-war Poland’s boundaries, its alliance and friendship with the Soviet Union, and communist ideology and its implementation within the countries of the Soviet bloc. Through a thorough analysis of nearly a thousand archival textbooks, Joanna Wojdon explores the ways in which propaganda was incorporated into each school subject, inc...
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