Leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings
the way we were face to face with the way we are
. Reissued in four languages,
Today meets Yesterday
deploys
vivid pictogram pairings
to explore the transformations, and the challenges, of our ever-evolving world.
Liu has made her name with a combination of graphic precision and incisive observation of behavior patterns. In
, her eye for tastes and trends takes ambitious scope,
juxtaposing past with present to explore fundamental shifts in society
. Along the way, we encounter the tussle between competing ideologies, historic and current global dangers, our interaction with the environment, and the
wholesale impact of technology on our ways of living, learning, and loving,
from online retail to the rise of the “smombie.”
With an eye on everything from geopolitics to concentration spans, Liu’s panorama incorporates the
details of daily experience as much as the momentous happenings in history
. Through Facebook, food waste, collectivism, and much more,
casts the familiar situation in a crisp and discerning light, bringing fresh awareness, as well as some ironies, to who we are and where we came from.