Resumen de Designing by hand.The relationship between collage and graphic design
This article reflects on the existing relationships between graphic design and collage, highlighting affinities and differences in terms of methodology, work processes and function. It looks at a series of designers who have used collage in their professional work but also in their non-commissioned artistic work. It also highlights distances and encounters between art and collage, the latter often treated as a subaltern of the first, called ‘higher art’ , as well as the eternal debate between art and design, a dichotomy in which artists-designers are immersed, especially in Spain
