Today meets Yesterday

Am I still from today or yesterday? The speed at which old-familiar things and habits reach their expiry date and land on the garbage heap of history seems to have accelerated rapidly since the spread of the internet. Shopping? Do with your smartphone. Landline? I don’t know. Parking? Can my car alone. What was still at the height of time yesterday is already retro today. In this four-language reissue, Yang Liu makes clear the difference between the old and the completely new patterns of behavior that the accelerated change of the world and technological progress demand us. The content asymmetry in contrast to the clear graphic rigour of their pictograms makes the often creeping but fundamental changes in our lives visible, mostly in a humorous way, sometimes frightening, but always concise and brightening. In her field of view, she has equally the great world politics, global disasters and dangers, such as our dealing with nature and the massive influence of technology on our everyday life, from online trading to the appearance of the smartphone-addicted generation “head down”. Today meets yesterday manages to find minimalist visualizations for complex facts, and with a wink, sensitizes us to how quickly we are willing to throw familiar and often proven things overboard