Yang Liu. Europe meets USA

Description

How do people respond to "how are you" on opposite sides of the pond? Do lunch breaks change over distant longitudes? Is the boss bigger in London or L.A.? In volume five of her best-selling series, Yang Liu distills the obvious and not-so-obvious contrasts between the European and U.S. experience into clever, crisp pictograms.

Yang Liu was born in 1976 in Beijing. After studying at the University of Arts Berlin (UdK), she worked as a designer in Singapore, London, Berlin, and New York. In 2004 she founded her own design studio, which she continues to run today. In addition to holding workshops and lectures at international conferences, she has taught at numerous universities in Germany and abroad. In 2010 she was appointed a professor at the BTK University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Her works have won numerous prizes in international competitions and can be found in museums and collections all over the world.

...Liu's outlook blends the details of daily experience with the most important happenings in human history. * Designboom * The simple, accessible, and stark visual format is necessarily reductive, designed as a thought-provoking tool to spark conversations and elicit a range of emotional responses. * Du Hoc Hoan Cau *