"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 ...
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"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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Used-Very Good. Now in Paperback! A collection of essays by Michael Bierut, Pentagram partner, cofounder of the website Design Observer, and AIGA board member. Bierut is one of the best-respected and most-beloved writers within the graphic design field, a spokesman for the profession, and a man pretty much universally admired within the academy and among practitioners. This collection includes writings from the 1980s through today. Originally published in hardcover in 2007. BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! !
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Michael Bierut is one of the best writers on design (especially since he is both a critic and a designer himself). And if one would need any other reason to buy this book, know this: each essay is written in a different typeface?from old, humanist ones to recent releases, like Meta or Strada.
