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Media & Marketing

Glitch, Dot Matrix & Disruption Graphics

Social media and a generation raised on both analogue and digital graphics are shaping a movement in graphic design focused on the aesthetics of digital language – the blossoming ‘glitch art’ scene.

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15 Feb 2012
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