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Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

By Michael Bierut

Book information

Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1568986998, 9781568986999
Open Library ID
OL23241253M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2344590 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
240\272
Orientation
landscape
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-06-18 16:47:58
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Description

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.

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