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Looking Closer 4: Critical Writings on Graphic Design

Name: Looking Closer 4: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Author: Michael Bierut
ISBN: 9781581159585

by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel (Editor), Steven Heller (Editor)

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The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such important contemporary themes as the rise and fall of the dot.coms and its influence on salary expectations, the ongoing controversy over the First Things First Manifesto, the call for greater responsibility in the design profession, and the antibranding protests that ignited demonstrations during recent World Trade Organization meetings.

From current events to design principles, and aesthetics to ethics, graphic designers everywhere will savor this anthology of fresh perspective.

About the Author, Michael Bierut

Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA Design: Designer as Author+Entrepreneur program at New York's School of Visual Arts. He is the author, editor and co-editor of more than one hundred books on design and popular culture.

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This collection brings together 55 significant essays presented between 1997 and 2000, in professional design and non-design journals, as academic papers, on the Internet, and as lectures. They cover a range of controversial issues in contemporary graphic design, such as ethics and the social responsibilities of designers, the designer as "author" or "auteur," balancing form and content and content and aesthetics, and the future of critical writing on graphic design. For students, and novice and veteran graphic designers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)