Screen Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture

Name: Screen Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9781568983103

ISBN-10: 1568983107

ISBN-13: 9781568983103

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jessica Helfand, John Maeda

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Jessica Helfand is partner in Jessica Helfand/William Drenttel, a design consultancy. She has been collecting wheels for several years.

John Maeda is President of Rhode Island School of Design and former Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab. In 2008 Esquire magazine named Maeda one of the 75 most influential people of the twenty-first century. He is the author of The Laws of Simplicity (MIT Press, 2006) and other books.



Preface


Introduction



Myth


One, Two, Three, Faux: The Myth of Real Time


Television Did it First: Ten Myths about "New" Media


Me, the Undersigned


Virtuality


Teasing the Nerves: The Art of Technological Persuasion


Dematerialization of Screen Space


Modern Life and the Univernacular


Aesthetics


De Stijl, New Media and the Lessons of Geometry


Sensory Montage: Rethinking Fusion and Fragmentation


Minimalism/Maximalism: The New Screen Aesthetic


Media


Bigger, Better, Weirder: Age of the Behemoth


Surveillance and the Modern Spectator


Spin and the (Pseudo) Screen Event


The Dynamics of Choice and the Death of Hierarchy


Typography


The New Illiteracy


Cult of the Scratchy


Electronic Typography: The New Visual Language


The Big Reveal and the Dance of the Mouse


Film


New Media, New Narrative: The Lost Legacy of Film


On Sound, Authenticity, and Cultural Amnesia


The Remembered Image


Design


Paul Rand: The Modern Designer


Paul Rand: The Modern Professor


Epilogue: Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones But Print Can Never Hurt Me


Index


Glossary