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Culture is not always popular : fifteen years of Design observer
Title
Culture is not always popular : fifteen years of Design observer / edited by Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand, with Jarrett Fuller.
ISBN
9780262039109
0262039109
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Notes
Essays originally published in Design observer.
Includes index.
Summary
Founded in 2003, 'Design Observer' inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world-one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to the pursuit of originality, imagination, and close cultural analysis, 'Design Observer' quickly became a lively forum for readers in the international design community. Fifteen years, 6,700 articles, 900 authors, and nearly 30,000 comments later, this book is a combination primer, celebration, survey, and salute to a certain moment in online culture. This collection includes reassessments that sharpen the lens or dislocate it; investigations into the power of design idioms; off-topic gems; discussions of design ethics; and experimental writing, new voices, hybrid observations, and other idiosyncratic texts.
Variant and related titles
Fifteen years of Design observer
15 years of design observer
Design observer.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2019
Contents
About this book / Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand
A conversation with Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand / Jarrett Fuller
01. Critical commentary
Why write about graphic design / Jessica Helfand
Where are the design critics? / Rick Poynor
Open letter to design students everywhere / Jessica Helfand
The politics of desire and looting / Adrian Shaughnessy
Designing under the influence / Michael Bierut
Jan van Toorn: arguing with visual means / Rick Poynor
Critical graphic design: critical of what? / Francisco Laranjo
Remembering Yves Saint Laurent / Thomas de Monchaux
Her story meets his story: Janet Bennett, Charles Kratka, and the LAX murals / Louise Sandhaus
Did we ever stop being postmodern? / Rich Poynor
Toward relational design / Andrew Blauvelt
Criticism = love / Alexandra Lange
A street photographer of nineteenth century London / John Foster
02. Cultural investigation
Culture is not always popular / William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand
The magic of the peace symbol / Steven Heller
Are JPEGs the new album covers? / Adrian Shaughnessy
100% design / Lorraine Wild
Ulysses: fast track to 1934 best seller / Martha Scotford
Steampunk'd, or Humbug by design / Randy Nakamura
Trump, the logo / John Cantwell
Branding youth in the totalitarian state / Steven Heller
Innovation is the new black / Michael Bierut
My country is not a brand / William Drenttel
What am I doing here?: tall buildings and high anxiety in Las Vegas / Mark Lamster
Jump cut: thoughts on editing / Adam Harrison Levy
Can graphic design make you cry? / Jessica Helfand
Today / Eric Baker
03. Will and whimsy
Warning: may contain non-design content / Michael Bierut
Mysterious disappearance of Carole Hersee / Dmitri Siegel
Comparakeet / Kathleen Meaney
A president and his dog, part two / Karrie Jacobs
A place for ribs / Mimi Lipson
Small worlds / Tom Vanderbilt
Why Scientology is good for Hollywood / Alissa Walker
Japanese face masks / Steven Heller
The designibles / Jessica Helfand
Phil Spector vs. the Wall of Sound / Liz Brown
The baseball card as design inspiration / Mark Lamster
Following suit / Timothy Young
04. Reason and responsibility
From milk to superfoods: supping with the devil? / John Thackara
Paper, plastic, or canvas? / Dmitri Siegel
The language of design imperialism / Maria Popova
Yoza / Meena Kadri
Architecture vs. the people / Bryan Finoki
Spaciocide / Bryan Finoki
Heteronormative design discourse / Stephen Eskilson
Flies in urinals: the value of design disruptions / Andrew Shea
Dawn of the Dead mall / Mark Dery
What if Uncle Sam wanted you? / Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall
Trust is not an algorithm / John Thackara
To be a design-led company / Ashleigh Axios
Let's get to work / Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand
Cafés and cigarettes / Véronique Vienne
05. Method designing: the paradox of modern design education / Jessica Helfand
Return of the standards manuals; or, Revenge of the rigid / Sean Adams
Why Tatlin can never go home again / Rick Poynor
Maps of cyberspace / William Drenttel
Tracking war drones / Rob Walker
Dodging, dazzling, and divulging / Alice Twemlow
On the shoulders of rebels / Phil Patton
Tell, don't show: algorithmic thinking for beginners / Véronique Vienne
Designing in the now / Rachel Berger
WeCommune / Allison Arieff
A short manifesto on the future of attention / Michael Erard
I believe in design / Kenneth FitzGerald
Deathiquette: a design problem / Jessica Helfand
Timeline: Fifteen years: 2003-2018.
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