Seventy-nine short essays on design

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Label

Seventy-nine short essays on design

Statement of responsibility

Michael Bierut

Title variation

79 short essays on design

Creator

• Bierut, Michael

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Graphic arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Gebrauchsgraphik
• History
• Commercial art
• Design
• Reklamkonst -- essäer
• Design
• Grafisk konst -- essäer
• Design
• Commercial art -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Graphic arts
• Visuelle Kommunikation

Genre

• essäer
• Aufsatzsammlung
• History

Language

eng

Summary

From the Publisher: 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

741.6

Index

index present

LC call number

NC998.5.A1

LC item number

B52 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography