Nudging Graphic Design (Emigre, No. 66) (EMIGRE, 66) - Softcover

Rudy VanderLans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568984375 ISBN 13: 9781568984377

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004

Synopsis

Kenneth FitzGerald proposes that the objective of design, to create a class of expert professional practitioners, can - and should - only lead to its demise as a specialist profession.

Lorraine Wild and Sam Potts respond, separately, to the publication of Rick Poynor's recent book "No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism."

Eric Heiman urges designers to "think wrong" and refocus their creative energies to solving non-commercial, more socially motivated problems.

Jeffery Keedy gives us a list of some of the most popular but dumb ideas in design.

Ben Hagon warns that without a significant change in the method by which we create work, Joe Client will, in time, do our graphic design work for us.

Kali Nikitas and Louise Sandhaus respond to the criticism levelled at their conversation "Visitations" which was published in Emigre #64.

And Emigre interviews Armin Vit, the founder of Speak Up, design's most successful blog, and David Cabianca who discusses the value of design theory and criticism.

Plus, the Readers Respond, featuring letters from around the world in response to past issues of Emigre magazine.

About this title

About the Author:

In 1983 mistakenly thinking he was applying for a job at Chronicle Books, VanderLans found himself at the S.F. Chronicle to do illustrations, cover designs and graphs. Frustrated by life at a newspaper he established Emigre in 1984 as a journal to showcase artists, photographers, poets, and artists.

Review:

"Emigre really matters. Whether you are passionately committed to it, militantly opposed, or just slightly bemused..., there can be no denying that this fusion of magazine and typefoundry is one of the most significant phenomena in recent American graphic Design."

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1568984375
• ISBN 13: 9781568984377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144