Overview

Designer and critic Jessica Helfand has emerged as a leading voice of a new generation of designers. Her essays--at once pithy, polemical, and precise--appear in places as diverse as Eye, Print, ID, The New Republic, and the LA Times. The essays collected here decode the technologies, trends, themes, and personalities that define design today, especially the new media, and provide a road map of things to come. Her first two chapbooks--Paul Rand: American Modernist and Six (+2) Essays on Design and New Media--became instant classics. This new compilation brings together essays from the earlier publications along with more than twenty others on a variety of topics including avatars, the cult of the scratchy, television, sex on the screen, and more. Designers, students, educators, visual literati, and everyone looking for an entertaining and insightful guide to the world of design today will not find a better or more approachable book on the subject.
ISBN-13

9781568983202

ISBN-10

1568983204

Weight

0.90 Pounds

Dimensions

8.50 x 5.75 x 8.75 In

List Price

$45.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

Princeton Architectural Press

Published On

2001-09-28


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