Looking Closer 2 offers more of the best recent writing on graphic design, covering new and important issues in design language, education, intellectual property, new media, the state of the business, and the place of design in society. The collection presents a stimulating look at how design issues are affected by and affecting changes in contemporary culture.
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A trio of books recently published by Allworth Press offer a compact self-study course on the practice and appreciation of graphic design. The books . . . are intended as an alternative to the diet of eye candy that sustains many graphic designers. Of the three, only DESIGN LITERACY is illustrated, and that only sparingly, with black-and-white thumbnails. The message? Look with your brain first -- Metropolis, April, 1998
Looking Closer, the first volume, a critical success, was a sort of Reader's Digest or Utne Reader for design. In Looking Closer 2, the editors have once again gathered some of the most trenchant of recent articles. . . . Looking Closer 2, as its forerunner, is a valuable and helpful compilation -- Communication Arts, Advertizing Annual 1997
To jump smack dab into the middle of the current graphic-design dialogue, read Looking Closer and Looking Closer 2. These volumes combined offer 80-plus lucid commentaries on everything from "jive modernism" and the social function(s) of design to postmodern theory and its implications for design. What astonishes me about these visual artists' texts is just how stylish, thoughtful, accessible and engaging they are. . . . the reader feels privileged to eavesdrop on the cream of the profession . . . talk theory and talk shop with each other in readily comprehensible ways . . . -- Photography in New York, January/February 1997
[The volume] achieves its twin goals of balance and eclecticism. . . . Heller's densely researched rebuke to naive appropriators of Nazi iconography is bracingly concrete . . . . The sequel affords a welcome chance to catch up on all the essays we never got around to reading . . ." -- I.D., November, 1997
Looking Closer, the first volume, a critical success, was a sort of Reader's Digest or Utne Reader for design. In Looking Closer 2, the editors have once again gathered some of the most trenchant of recent articles. . . . Looking Closer 2, as its forerunner, is a valuable and helpful compilation -- Communication Arts, Advertizing Annual 1997
To jump smack dab into the middle of the current graphic-design dialogue, read Looking Closer and Looking Closer 2. These volumes combined offer 80-plus lucid commentaries on everything from "jive modernism" and the social function(s) of design to postmodern theory and its implications for design. What astonishes me about these visual artists' texts is just how stylish, thoughtful, accessible and engaging they are. . . . the reader feels privileged to eavesdrop on the cream of the profession . . . talk theory and talk shop with each other in readily comprehensible ways . . . -- Photography in New York, January/February 1997
[The volume] achieves its twin goals of balance and eclecticism. . . . Heller's densely researched rebuke to naive appropriators of Nazi iconography is bracingly concrete . . . . The sequel affords a welcome chance to catch up on all the essays we never got around to reading . . ." -- I.D., November, 1997
About the Author
Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism and MFA in Interaction Design programs at the School of Visual Arts, New York. For thirty- three years he was an art director at the New York Times, and currently writes the “Visuals” column for the New York Times Book Review. He is editor of the AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design and contributing editor to Print, EYE, Baseline, and ID magazines. He contributes to Design Observer and writes the DAILY HELLER blog for Print magazine. He is the author or editor of over 130 books on design and popular culture, including Design Literacy, Design Disasters, Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig, and Vintage Type and Graphics. He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Heller lives in New York.
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This review is from: Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design (Bk. 2) (Paperback)
If you're a designer or visual communicator, this book is a must have for research, history, and critical insight. Throughful, provocative, and daring, Looking Closer gauges the role of design across social and cultural divides. Its articles are collected from magazines such as Graphis, Eye, Communication Arts, and the AIGA Journal. Furthermore, the book is cheaper than getting a subscription to those magazines!
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A Bible for Graphic Design Students World Wide!,
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This review is from: Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design (Bk. 2) (Paperback)
A collection of essays from various magazines, designers and typographers provides the student with an unmissable reference guide. Excellent as it is not only an enjoyable, interesting read, but also fantastic for essay writing as it condenses a library of books into one small paperback. No student should be without this book!
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