Title & Author:

Culture is not always popular : fifteen years of Design Observer / edited by Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand, with Jarrett Fuller.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
©2018

Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Essays originally published in Design observer.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About this book / Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand -- A conversation with Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand / Jarrett Fuller -- 01. Critical commentary -- Why write about graphic design / Jessica Helfand -- Where are the design critics? / Rick Poynor -- Open letter to design students everywhere / Jessica Helfand -- The politics of desire and looting / Adrian Shaughnessy -- Designing under the influence / Michael Bierut -- Jan van Toorn: arguing with visual means / Rick Poynor -- Critical graphic design: critical of what? / Francisco Laranjo -- Remembering Yves Saint Laurent / Thomas de Monchaux -- Her story meets his story: Janet Bennett, Charles Kratka, and the LAX murals / Louise Sandhaus -- Did we ever stop being postmodern? / Rich Poynor -- Toward relational design / Andrew Blauvelt -- Criticism = love / Alexandra Lange -- A street photographer of nineteenth century London / John Foster -- 02. Cultural investigation -- Culture is not always popular / William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand -- The magic of the peace symbol / Steven Heller -- Are JPEGs the new album covers? / Adrian Shaughnessy -- 100% design / Lorraine Wild -- Ulysses: fast track to 1934 best seller / Martha Scotford -- Steampunk'd, or Humbug by design / Randy Nakamura -- Trump, the logo / John Cantwell -- Branding youth in the totalitarian state / Steven Heller -- Innovation is the new black / Michael Bierut -- My country is not a brand / William Drenttel -- What am I doing here?: tall buildings and high anxiety in Las Vegas / Mark Lamster -- Jump cut: thoughts on editing / Adam Harrison Levy -- Can graphic design make you cry? / Jessica Helfand -- Today / Eric Baker -- 03. Will and whimsy -- Warning: may contain non-design content / Michael Bierut -- Mysterious disappearance of Carole Hersee / Dmitri Siegel -- Comparakeet / Kathleen Meaney -- A president and his dog, part two / Karrie Jacobs -- A place for ribs / Mimi Lipson -- Small worlds / Tom Vanderbilt -- Why Scientology is good for Hollywood / Alissa Walker -- Japanese face masks / Steven Heller -- The designibles / Jessica Helfand -- Phil Spector vs. the Wall of Sound / Liz Brown -- The baseball card as design inspiration / Mark Lamster -- Following suit / Timothy Young -- 04. Reason and responsibility -- From milk to superfoods: supping with the devil? / John Thackara -- Paper, plastic, or canvas? / Dmitri Siegel -- The language of design imperialism / Maria Popova -- Yoza / Meena Kadri -- Architecture vs. the people / Bryan Finoki -- Spaciocide / Bryan Finoki -- Heteronormative design discourse / Stephen Eskilson -- Flies in urinals: the value of design disruptions / Andrew Shea -- Dawn of the Dead mall / Mark Dery -- What if Uncle Sam wanted you? / Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall -- Trust is not an algorithm / John Thackara -- To be a design-led company / Ashleigh Axios -- Let's get to work / Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand -- Cafés and cigarettes / Véronique Vienne -- 05. Method designing: the paradox of modern design education / Jessica Helfand -- Return of the standards manuals; or, Revenge of the rigid / Sean Adams -- Why Tatlin can never go home again / Rick Poynor -- Maps of cyberspace / William Drenttel -- Tracking war drones / Rob Walker -- Dodging, dazzling, and divulging / Alice Twemlow -- On the shoulders of rebels / Phil Patton -- Tell, don't show: algorithmic thinking for beginners / Véronique Vienne -- Designing in the now / Rachel Berger -- WeCommune / Allison Arieff -- A short manifesto on the future of attention / Michael Erard -- I believe in design / Kenneth FitzGerald -- Deathiquette: a design problem / Jessica Helfand -- Timeline: Fifteen years: 2003-2018.

Summary:

Founded in 2003, 'Design Observer' inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world-one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to the pursuit of originality, imagination, and close cultural analysis, 'Design Observer' quickly became a lively forum for readers in the international design community. Fifteen years, 6,700 articles, 900 authors, and nearly 30,000 comments later, this book is a combination primer, celebration, survey, and salute to a certain moment in online culture. This collection includes reassessments that sharpen the lens or dislocate it; investigations into the power of design idioms; off-topic gems; discussions of design ethics; and experimental writing, new voices, hybrid observations, and other idiosyncratic texts.

ISBN:

9780262039109 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262039109 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Design History 20th century.
Design History 21st century.
Design Social aspects History 20th century.
Design Social aspects History 21st century.
Industrial design Social aspects History 20th century.
Industrial design Social aspects History 21st century.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Histoire 21e siècle.
Design Aspect social Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Aspect social Histoire 21e siècle.
Design
Design Social aspects
Art and Design.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Bierut, Michael, editor.
Helfand, Jessica, editor.
Fuller, Jarrett, editor.
Design observer.

Fifteen years of Design observer
15 years of design observer

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304004
Call No.: BIB 249508
Status: Available