79 Short Essays on Design
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79 Short Essays on Design

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79 Short Essays on Design

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Michael Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Designbrings together his best critical writing., covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond

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Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781616890711
Topic
Design
Subtopic
Graphic Design

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1 Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content
  3. 2 Why Designers Can't Think
  4. 3 Waiting for Permission
  5. 4 How to Become Famous
  6. 5 In Search of the Perfect Client
  7. 6 Histories in the Making
  8. 7 Playing by Mr. Rand's Rules
  9. 8 David Carson and the End of Print
  10. 9 Rob Roy Kelly's Old, Weird America
  11. 10 My Phone Call to Arnold Newman
  12. 11 Howard Roark Lives
  13. 12 The Real and the Fake
  14. 13 Ten Footnotes to a Manifesto
  15. 14 The New York Time: Apocalypse Now, Page A1
  16. 15 Graphic Design and the New Certainties
  17. 16 Mark Lombardi and the Ecstasy of Conspiracy
  18. 17 George Kennan and the Cold War Between Form and Content
  19. 18 Errol Morris Blows Up Spreadsheet, Thousands Killed
  20. 19 Catharsis, Salesmanship, and the Limits of Empire
  21. 20 Better Nation-Building Through Design
  22. 21 The T-shirt Competition Republicans Fear Most
  23. 22 India Switches Brands
  24. 23 Graphic Designers, Flush Left?
  25. 24 Just Say Yes
  26. 25 Regrets Only
  27. 26 The Forgotten Design Legacy of the National Lampoon
  28. 27 McSweeney's No. 13 and the Revenge of the Nerds
  29. 28 The Book (Cover) That Changed My Life
  30. 29 Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext
  31. 30 The Final Decline and Total Collapse of the American Magazine Cover
  32. 31 Information Design and the Placebo Effect
  33. 32 Stanley Kubrick and the Future of Graphic Design
  34. 33 I hear You've Got Script Trouble: The Designer as Auteur
  35. 34 The Idealistic Corporation
  36. 35 Barthes on the Ballpoint
  37. 36 The Tyranny of the Tagline
  38. 37 Ed Ruscha: When Art Rises to the Level of Graphic Design
  39. 38 To Hell with the Simple Paper Clip
  40. 39 The Man Who Saved Jackson Pollock
  41. 40 Homage to the Squares
  42. 41 Eero Saarinen's Forty-Year Layover
  43. 42 The Rendering and the Reality
  44. 43 What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture
  45. 44 Colorama
  46. 45 Mr. Vignelli's Map
  47. 46 I Hate ITC Garamond
  48. 47 1989: Roots of Revolution
  49. 48 The World in Two Footnotes
  50. 49 Logogate in Connecticut
  51. 50 The Whole Damn Bus is Cheering
  52. 51 The Best Artist in the World
  53. 52 The Supersized, Temporarily Impossible World of Bruce McCall
  54. 53 The Unbearable Lightness of Fred Marcellino
  55. 54 The Comfort of Style
  56. 55 Authenticity: A User's Guide
  57. 56 Designing Under the Influence
  58. 57 Me and My Pyramid
  59. 58 On (Design) Bullshit
  60. 59 Call Me Shithead, or, What's in a Name?
  61. 60 Avoiding Poor, Lonely Obvious
  62. 61 My Favorite Book is Not About Design (or Is It?)
  63. 62 Rick Valicenti: This Time It's Personal
  64. 63 Credit Line Goes Here
  65. 64 Every New Yorker is a Target
  66. 65 I am a Plagiarist
  67. 66 Looking for Celebration, Florida
  68. 67 The Great Non-Amber-Colored Hope
  69. 68 The Mysterious Power of Context
  70. 69 The Final Days of AT&T
  71. 70 Designing Twyla Tharp's Upper Room
  72. 71 Innovation is the New Black
  73. 72 Wilson Pickett, Design Theorist, 1942-2006
  74. 73 Design by Committee
  75. 74 The Persistence of the Exotic Menial
  76. 75 The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation!
  77. 76 When Design is a Matter of Life or Death
  78. 77 In Praise of Slow Design
  79. 78 Massimo Vignelli's Pencil
  80. 79 On Falling Off a Treadmill
  81. Appendix
  82. Index