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Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design

by Michael Bierut

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ISBN13: 9781568986999
ISBN10: 1568986998
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"Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design" brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing serious 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.
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ISBN:
9781568986999
Author:
Bierut, Michael
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press
Author:
Michael, Bierut
Subject:
Design - Book
Subject:
History
Subject:
Graphic Arts
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Design - General
Subject:
General
Subject:
Commercial art -- United states -- History.
Subject:
Graphic arts -- United States -- History.
Publication Date:
July 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
9.04x6.34x1.04 in. 1.65 lbs.
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