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Title: Design Culture Now: National Design Triennial by Donald Albrecht, Ellen Lupton, Steven Holt ISBN: 1568982186 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8
Rating: 3
Summary: spell-check now!
Comment: I agree completely with the reviewer from Providence, RI. However, I place the day-glo inks as the SECOND most noticeable flaw. The first is the misspelling of SMITHSONIAN on the spine.
Rating: 3
Summary: You CAN judge a book by it's cover!
Comment: Almost annoying.
I agree about the fluorescent pages. I was really, really surprised that anyone would actually box large clumps of body copy (which by the way were written by someone who exists on a much higher plane of existence that the rest of us!) in to heavy fluorescent frames, which basically served to give me the worst headache I've had in weeks.
I was relieved though, that there was some redeeming content in the book. I appreciated the attention to various art disciplines, however, I would (as a graphic designer), have appreciated a LITTLE more attention to print projects.
I agree that it is perhaps, mis-titled, as I wonder if it truly represents "design culture," but there is much to inspire, and I found it worth having.
Rating: 5
Summary: overviews are necessary
Comment: i like the book because of its overview and mixed / cross polinated approach. I don't think that vernacular design that informs our culture is any more inspiring necessarily to students than a more avant garde approach. Either way, I did find some mainstream design included and yet a lot was on the edge too. I think students, especially will gain from the survey approach here. They do not have enormous opportunities to see whats out there while they are in school and this resources makes a good effort at bringing it to them and the public. The layout is also fine. I do not fault the organization of the pages or thematic titles used throughout. It is a demonstration of cross fertilization in design that is pushing the envelope and thats the message of the book to me. Design is not complacent and not sitting still - it is pushing frontiers and making new relationships between information and communication, materials and process, environmental impact and human life/style, and so much more is happening all around us. I think its a good project.
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Title: Products of Our Time by David Redhead ISBN: 3764362340 Publisher: Birkhauser (Architectural) Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture by Ellen Lupton ISBN: 156898099X Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Inside Design Now: National Design Triennial by Ellen Lupton, Donald Albrecht, Mitchell Owens ISBN: 1568983948 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design: American Institute of Graphic Arts by Tad Crawford, AIGA ISBN: 1880559897 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, Grace Jeffers, Randi Mates ISBN: 1568983182 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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