As the country’s economic system has transformed over the past decade, hand-designed graphics have all but disappeared from North Korea, replaced, as it has in the rest of the world, by computer-generated work.
Hoping to preserve what he calls this "Golden Age", Nicholas Bonner, a co-founder of the Koryo Tours travel company and a frequent visitor to North Korea since 1993, has released a book: “Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life."
As the country’s economic system has transformed over the past decade, hand-designed graphics have all but disappeared from North Korea, replaced, as it has in the rest of the world, by computer-generated work.
Hoping to preserve what he calls this "Golden Age", Nicholas Bonner, a co-founder of the Koryo Tours travel company and a frequent visitor to North Korea since 1993, has released a book: “Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life."
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