EN Made in North Korea is book by Phaidon that uncovers the graphic culture of North Korea. From his base in Beijing, Nick Bonner has been running tours into North Korea for over twenty years, and collecting graphic ephemera along the way. He has amassed thousands of items – from packaging to hotel brochures, luggage tags to tickets for the world-famous mass games – that, as a collection, provide an extraordinary and rare insight into North Korea’s state-controlled graphic output, and the lives of ordinary North Koreans.
ES Made in North Korea es un libro de Phaidon sobre la gráfica de Corea del Norte. Desde su base en Beijing, Nick Bonner ha estado realizando giras por Corea del Norte durante más de veinte años y recolectando efímeros gráficos a lo largo del camino. Ha acumulado miles de artículos, desde paquetes hasta folletos de hoteles, etiquetas de equipaje y entradas para eventos deportivos multitudinarios, que brindan una visión extraordinaria de la producción gráfica dentro de Corea del Norte y la vida de los norcoreanos.
With: Christopher Lawson / Archive: Print / Related Projects: Made in North Korea, Soviet Space Graphics, Design in the USSR