Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616890614 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Bierut is the most perceptive and wittiest writer about design working today." -- Aaron Betsky, Architect magazine
Prior to joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990, he was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates in the U.S.A. . Michael Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnatiris College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
Bierut is one of the best-respected and most-beloved writers within the graphic design field, a spokesman for the profession, and a man pretty much universally admired within the academy and among practitioners. Now in Paperback! A collection of essays by Michael Bierut, Pentagram partner, cofounder of the website Design Observer, and AIGA board member. This collection includes writings from the 1980s through today.
"Great Bit-by-Bit Reader" according to W. Stotler. Not much to add to other reviewer's comments, but I will say that this was a solid read and would be great for those who are seeking a book they can pick up, read a bit, and then put back down again.. Hit and miss 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.. smug, self-congratulatory pap dressed up as profound insight What an annoying, disappointing waste of money "Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design" by Michael Bierut turned out to be! Nearly all of the 79 essays are smug, self-congratulatory pap dressed up as profound insight.In their original context the essays would have been targeted at a specific readership and perhaps those readers liked this stuff and were used to it. But when publi