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Seventy-nine short essays on design / Michael Bierut.

By: Bierut, Michael.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2007Description: 272 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781568986999; 1568986998.Other title: 79 short essays on design.Subject(s): Commercial art -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Graphic arts -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 741.6
Contents:
Warning: May contain non-design content -- Why designers can't think -- Waiting for permission -- How to become famous -- In search of the perfect client -- Histories in the making -- Playing by Mr. Rand's rules -- David Carson and the end of print -- Rob Roy Kelly's Old, Weird America -- My phone call to Arnold Newman -- Howard Roark lives -- The real and the fake -- Ten footnotes to a manifesto -- The New York Times: Apocalypse Now, Page A1 -- Graphic design and the new certainties -- Mark Lombardi and the ecstasy of conspiracy -- George Kennan and the cold war between form and content -- Errol Morris blows up spreadsheet, thousands killed -- Catharsis, Salesmanship and the limits of empire -- Better nation-building through design -- The T-shirt competition republicans fear most -- India switches brands -- Graphic designers, flush left? -- Just say Yes -- Regrets only -- The forgotten design legacy of the National Lampoon -- McSweeney's No. 13 and the revenge of the nerds -- The book (cover) that changed my life -- Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext -- The final decline and total collapse of the American magazine cover -- Information design and the placebo effect -- Stanley Kubrick and the future of graphic design -- I hear you've got script trouble: the designer as auteur -- The idealistic corporation -- Barthes on the ballpoint -- The tyranny of the Tagline -- Ed Ruscha: When art rises to the level of graphic design -- To hell with the simple paper clip -- The man who saved Jackson Pollock -- Homage to the squares -- Eero Saarinen's forty-year layover -- The rendering and the reality -- What we talk about when we talk about architecture -- Colorama -- Mr. Vignelli's map -- I hate ITC Garamond -- 1989: Roots of Revolution -- The world in two footnotes -- Logogate in Connecticut -- The whole damn bus is cheering -- The best artist in the world -- The supersized, temporarily impossible world of Bruce McCall -- The unbearable lightness of Fred Marcellino -- The comfort of style -- Authenticity: A user's guide -- Designing under the influence -- Me and my pyramid -- On (design) bullshit -- Call me shithead, or, what's in a name? -- Avoiding poor, lonely obvious -- My favorite book is not about design (or is it?) -- Rick Valicenti: This time it's personal -- Credit line goes here -- Every New Yorker is a target -- I am a plagiarist -- Looking for celebration, Florida -- The great Non-Amber-Colored Hope -- The mysterious power of context -- The final days of AT&T -- Designing Twyla Tharp's Upper Room -- Innovation is the New Black -- Wilson Pickett, Design Theorist, 1942-2006 -- Design by committee -- The persistence of the exotic menial -- The road to hell: Now paved with innovation! -- When design is a matter of life or death -- In praise of slow design -- Massimo Vignelli's Pencil -- On falling off a treadmill.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00191151
General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00159783
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Warning: May contain non-design content -- Why designers can't think -- Waiting for permission -- How to become famous -- In search of the perfect client -- Histories in the making -- Playing by Mr. Rand's rules -- David Carson and the end of print -- Rob Roy Kelly's Old, Weird America -- My phone call to Arnold Newman -- Howard Roark lives -- The real and the fake -- Ten footnotes to a manifesto -- The New York Times: Apocalypse Now, Page A1 -- Graphic design and the new certainties -- Mark Lombardi and the ecstasy of conspiracy -- George Kennan and the cold war between form and content -- Errol Morris blows up spreadsheet, thousands killed -- Catharsis, Salesmanship and the limits of empire -- Better nation-building through design -- The T-shirt competition republicans fear most -- India switches brands -- Graphic designers, flush left? -- Just say Yes -- Regrets only -- The forgotten design legacy of the National Lampoon -- McSweeney's No. 13 and the revenge of the nerds -- The book (cover) that changed my life -- Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext -- The final decline and total collapse of the American magazine cover -- Information design and the placebo effect -- Stanley Kubrick and the future of graphic design -- I hear you've got script trouble: the designer as auteur -- The idealistic corporation -- Barthes on the ballpoint -- The tyranny of the Tagline -- Ed Ruscha: When art rises to the level of graphic design -- To hell with the simple paper clip -- The man who saved Jackson Pollock -- Homage to the squares -- Eero Saarinen's forty-year layover -- The rendering and the reality -- What we talk about when we talk about architecture -- Colorama -- Mr. Vignelli's map -- I hate ITC Garamond -- 1989: Roots of Revolution -- The world in two footnotes -- Logogate in Connecticut -- The whole damn bus is cheering -- The best artist in the world -- The supersized, temporarily impossible world of Bruce McCall -- The unbearable lightness of Fred Marcellino -- The comfort of style -- Authenticity: A user's guide -- Designing under the influence -- Me and my pyramid -- On (design) bullshit -- Call me shithead, or, what's in a name? -- Avoiding poor, lonely obvious -- My favorite book is not about design (or is it?) -- Rick Valicenti: This time it's personal -- Credit line goes here -- Every New Yorker is a target -- I am a plagiarist -- Looking for celebration, Florida -- The great Non-Amber-Colored Hope -- The mysterious power of context -- The final days of AT&T -- Designing Twyla Tharp's Upper Room -- Innovation is the New Black -- Wilson Pickett, Design Theorist, 1942-2006 -- Design by committee -- The persistence of the exotic menial -- The road to hell: Now paved with innovation! -- When design is a matter of life or death -- In praise of slow design -- Massimo Vignelli's Pencil -- On falling off a treadmill.

UCC Fund.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Bierut is a partner at Pentagram and a 2006 AIGA medalist. He is a design critic for the online journal Design Observer, the Public Radio International program Studio 360, and the Yale School of Art.