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Obey the giant : life in the image world / Rick Poynor.

By: Poynor, Rick.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston, MA : Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2007Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 224 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9783764385002.Subject(s): Commercial art -- History -- 20th century | Graphic arts -- History -- 20th century | Advertising -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 741.60904
Contents:
Introduction -- Advertisements for Utopia -- The boredom of plenty -- Inside the blue whale -- Prozac for the ear -- The medium of emergent desire -- In every dream home -- Alternative by design? -- Branded journalism -- Sentenced to buy -- Here is me! -- Don't think, shoot -- An artist's rights -- Ineffable cool -- Blank look -- Shopping on planet irony -- Digital supergirls -- Graphic sex -- Erotic documents -- Death in the image world -- Che is risen -- Under the knife -- The resistance meme -- Too much stuff -- Design is advertising -- First things first -- First things next -- Thirteen provocations -- Surface wreckage -- This is a record cover -- Fighting ads with ads -- A child's fate? -- Preparing for the meme wars -- The designer as reporter -- Books of blood and laughter -- The critical path -- When objects dream -- Power to translate -- Future imperfect.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the 21st century, commerce and culture are ever more closely entwined. This collection of essays by design critic Rick Poynor takes a searching look at visual culture to discover the reality beneath the ultra-seductive surfaces. Poynor explores the thinking behind the emerging resistance to commercial rhetoric among designers, and offers critical insights into the changing dialogue between advertising and design. Other essays address the topics of visual journalism; brands as religion; the new solipsism; graphic memes; the pleasures of imperfect design; and the poverty of "cool". The worldwide dominance of huge corporations is invariably expressed by visual means. This book challenges this mono-culture critically. It offers inspirational evidence of alternative ways of engaging with design, and it will appeal to any reader with a questioning interest in design, advertising, cultural studies, media studies, and the visual arts.

Bibliography: (pages 218-219) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-217).

Introduction -- Advertisements for Utopia -- The boredom of plenty -- Inside the blue whale -- Prozac for the ear -- The medium of emergent desire -- In every dream home -- Alternative by design? -- Branded journalism -- Sentenced to buy -- Here is me! -- Don't think, shoot -- An artist's rights -- Ineffable cool -- Blank look -- Shopping on planet irony -- Digital supergirls -- Graphic sex -- Erotic documents -- Death in the image world -- Che is risen -- Under the knife -- The resistance meme -- Too much stuff -- Design is advertising -- First things first -- First things next -- Thirteen provocations -- Surface wreckage -- This is a record cover -- Fighting ads with ads -- A child's fate? -- Preparing for the meme wars -- The designer as reporter -- Books of blood and laughter -- The critical path -- When objects dream -- Power to translate -- Future imperfect.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rick Poynor is founding editor of Eye, & writes frequently on design. He is the author of seven previous books, including Design Without Boundaries (1998).

He lives in London.

(Bowker Author Biography)