Science, 1961 – Part 2.

Jan Lenica – Population: Abundance or Famine

Fifth book in the Visuals series, visualized by the Polish artist Jan Lenica. Population concerns is the problem posed by the explosion in numbers which has followed recent scientific advances in hygiene and medicine, a human explosion which threatens famine. The feasibility of two possible answers—population control or economic advance are evaluated. The prime necessity of disarmament is pointed out.

Graphis 98, 1961
Visuals, a New Series of Scientific Books
Written by Frédéric Distis

We show here examples from the first issues in a new series of pocket books called Visuals, which represents a fruitful contact between art and science in the growing field of mass communications.

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In Visuals, the artist becomes the author, he has to sense his theme and understand it from inside. The men of science, the expert and researcher, initiate him into their disciplines and provide a brief accompanying text, giving the essential facts, as a supplement to his projection of the subject in visual form. As the work for the first books progressed, it became clear that the artist is able to penetrate science to unexpected depths, experiencing and expressing it with a passion that grips the observer’s spirit as well as his understanding.

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Sandi Vincent grew up in the bay area of California surrounded by mid-century modern architecture and other influences responsible for her affinity for the period and its pop style, including her early exposure to The Monkees, The Avengers and Gerald McBoing-Boing. Sandi now resides in Portland and is a board member of a local nonprofit preservation group, the Mid-Century Modern League. In her day job at a community foundation, she sports the web/social media/print materials coordinator title.

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