79 Short Essays on Design
by Michael Bierut
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Author: Michael BierutEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-31
ISBN: 1568986998
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Book Reviews of 79 Short Essays on Design
Book Review: Hit and miss
Summary: 3 Stars
I love a lot of the essays in here, but I don't think I would buy this again. It was good to read in short bursts, and I think some of the individual articles were amazing. Overall, I found the majority of them to be somewhat interesting, but that my mind kept wandering. It seems more like a book that I would like as a gift, but not worth buying it myself.
Summary of 79 Short Essays on Design
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing serious 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.Books
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