Spain, Greece, Italy, southern Europe has overall superior graphic design tradition. You ca verify this by going on Behance and scrolling through the works of individual countries. The UK is one the worse performers in graphic design, but it has very good product design and engineering. UK architecture is also almost uniformly terrible.
Hmm, I don't agree, many countries over the decades have contributed to the field, to use geography to judge an arts field that manifests as a product of global contributions is flawed.
It's not geography that determines the outcome, but a combination of the education system and what's valued and well paid.
I've been told that kids these days receive almost no arts education in the UK in the government funded education. How do you expect them to compete with countries like Portugal and Greece with visual and music education is much stronger?
Same thing about Germany. There is a non-trivial amount of Bauhaus books that are only available in German. Given how crucial that movement is for modern design, it's understandable that you see stronger pupils coming out of Germany since they might have had access to seminal texts that aren't even available in other languages.
It would be the equivalent of Andrew Ng teaching only in Turkish. You'd likely see a good amount of Turkish AI engineers coming out of that with better training than their Western counterparts? At least until the contents were translated, which in the case of Bauhaus, they never were.
