Looking Closer 4 Critical Writings on Graphic Design

Name: Looking Closer 4 Critical Writings on Graphic Design
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ISBN: 9781581152357

ISBN-10: 1581152353

ISBN-13: 9781581152357

Edition: 4th 2002

Authors: Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller, Steven Heller

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The fourth installment of this acclaimed series picks up where volume 2 left by offering astute critical discussions on the issues and objects of contemporary graphic design.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.88" long x 6.80" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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Steven Heller is senior Art Director for the New York Times & author of over seventy books on art, culture, & design. He lives in New York City.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



To the Barricades


First Things First Manifesto 2000


First Things First, a Brief History



First Things First: Now More Than Ever



Just Say No ... Quietly



Can Designers Save the World? (And Should They Try?)



The People V. the Corporate Cool Machine



A Manifesto with Ten Footnotes



A New Kind of Dialogue



The Spectacle: A Reevaluation of the Situationist thesis



On FTF



Culture Agents


Why Johnny Can't Dissent



Culture Agents



The Case for Brands


Truth in Advertising



Sustainable Consumerism



Don't Let the Buggers Grind You Down!



Saving Advertising



Saving Jelly



Reading at the Breakfast Table



Manifestos


Me, the Undersigned



An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth



Fuck Committees (I Believe in Lunatics)



The Vow of Chastity


Critical Languages


The Time for Being Against



Theory is a Good Idea



That Was Then, and This Is Now: but What Is Next?



What Happens When the Edges Dissolve?



The Trouble with Type



Is it Better to Revive than to Deceive? Design and Complicity: Herbert Buyer's Silent Legacy



De Stijl, New Media, and the Lessons of Geometry



The Critical "Languages" of Graphic Design



State of the Arts


Graphic Design and the Next Big Thing



Telling the Truth?



Who Needs Ethics



Human Dignity and Human Rights: Thoughts on the Principles of Human-Centered Design



A Manifesto of Inclusivism



Greasing the Wheels of Capitalism with Style and Taste, or, the "Professionalization" of American Graphic Design



No Problem



Terminal Terminology



The Hole in Art's Umbrella



Graphic News



Movie Titles: Much Ado about Little



The Name Game



Authorship


The Designer as Author



Battle of the Big Books



All Hail Mau the Magnificent



Half Empty



Lost in Sound



Meditations


Getting Real



Least Designed and Most Read



The Handwriting Is on the Wall, but Who Can Read It?



Let the Buyer Beware



Beige



The Flag Waverer



Contributors


Index