Seventy-nine short essays on design / Michael Bierut.
By: Bierut, Michael
Publisher: New York : [Enfield Princeton Architectural Press ; Publishers Group UK, distributor], c2007Description: 272 p.; 24 cm001: 11774ISBN: 1568986998; 9781568986999Other title: 79 short essays on designSubject(s): Commercial art -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Graphic arts -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 741.6 LOC classification: NC998.5.A1 | B52 2007
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 741.6 BIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 089184 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writingserious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye , as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire ; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design , designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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