Design Issues: How Graphic Design Informs Society

This guide takes a look at 21st century design in a critical, educational, ethical, historical, social, and often humorous way.

Based on the popular "Design Issues" column in Communication Arts, this anthology of brilliantly-conceived mind-teasers explores how design communicates with, rubs itself against, and sometimes stumbles around the "real" world. Here are some of the column's most intriguing and provocative selections, taken from an unorthodox mix of over 20 contributors, covering a range of subjects from designing a corporate identity to the philosophical dimensions of art. Upbeat and entertaining, it's sure to capture the attention of artists, illustrators and designers

DK Holland is design issues editor of Communication Arts, and business editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. A senior art director and partner of the internationally known design firm, Pushpin Group, she is the recipient of the 1999 Walter Hortens Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional Practice from the Graphic Artists Guild. The author of numerous articles on design, she is a co-editor of Looking Closer and Looking Closer 2 (Allworth Press). She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Contributors include: John Bielenberg, Michael Bierut, Michael Cronan, Hugh Dubberly, Philip Marshall Durbrow, William Drenttel, Mark Fox, David Lance Goines, Peter Good, Justin Vood Good, Brad Holland, Cecilia Holland, Sean Kernan, Ellen Lupton, Larry Keeley, Carolyn McCarron, David Sterling, Tucker Viemeister, Veronique Vienne, and JP Williams.