" The end of the 20th Century saw the gradual breakdown of the hegemony of the International Style in the face of challenges that arose as part of the "postmodern" movement. The term "postmodern" is at its heart a chronological term that means simply "after-modern". However, the term has been complicated by a variety of different and overlapping definitions that were devised to fit certain situations. One overarching idea of what constitutes the "postmodern" is that it rejects that which is "modern"...
However, most scholars feel that the modern movement did not end with the beginning of postmodernism, so that modernism and postmodernism actually have existed side by side, with the former losing ground to the latter over the years." - Graphic Design A New History, Stephen F. Eskilson
So, what I've taken from this short intro is that postmodernism and modernism exist together side by side; that the term postmodernism is used to describe a movement/ideology that began after modernism, or as a response to it. I've read that postmodernism is a rejection of modernism, that it breaks the rules for design laid down by the modernist movement.
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