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Graphic design theory : readings from the field / edited by Helen Armstrong.

Contributor(s): Series: Design briefsPublication details: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 151 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781568987729 (pbk.) :
  • 1568987722 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NC997 .G673 2009
Incomplete contents:
Manifesto of Futurism / F. T. Marinetti -- Who we are : manifesto of the Constructivist group / Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, and Aleksei Gan -- Our book / El Lissitzky -- Typophoto / László Moholy-Nagy -- The new typography / Jan Tschichold / The crystal goblet, or, Why printing should be invisible / Beatrice Warde -- On typography / Herbert Bayer -- Designing programmes / Karl Gerstner -- Grid and design philosophy / Josef Müller-Brockmann -- Good design is goodwill / Paul Rand -- Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour -- My way to typography / Wolfgang Weingart -- Typography as discourse / Katherine McCoy with David Frej -- The macramé of resistance / Lorraine Wild -- The dark in the middle of the stairs / Paula Scher -- The underground mainstream / Steven Heller -- Design and reflexivity / Jan van Toorn -- Design anarchy / Kalle Lasn -- The designer as author / Michael Rock -- Designing our own graves / Dmitri Siegel -- Dematerialization of screen space / Jessica Helfand -- Designing design / Kenya Hara -- Import/export, or, Design workflow and contemporary aesthetics / Lev Manovich -- Univers strikes back / Ellen and Julia Lupton.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149) and index.

Manifesto of Futurism / F. T. Marinetti -- Who we are : manifesto of the Constructivist group / Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, and Aleksei Gan -- Our book / El Lissitzky -- Typophoto / László Moholy-Nagy -- The new typography / Jan Tschichold / The crystal goblet, or, Why printing should be invisible / Beatrice Warde -- On typography / Herbert Bayer -- Designing programmes / Karl Gerstner -- Grid and design philosophy / Josef Müller-Brockmann -- Good design is goodwill / Paul Rand -- Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour -- My way to typography / Wolfgang Weingart -- Typography as discourse / Katherine McCoy with David Frej -- The macramé of resistance / Lorraine Wild -- The dark in the middle of the stairs / Paula Scher -- The underground mainstream / Steven Heller -- Design and reflexivity / Jan van Toorn -- Design anarchy / Kalle Lasn -- The designer as author / Michael Rock -- Designing our own graves / Dmitri Siegel -- Dematerialization of screen space / Jessica Helfand -- Designing design / Kenya Hara -- Import/export, or, Design workflow and contemporary aesthetics / Lev Manovich -- Univers strikes back / Ellen and Julia Lupton.

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