Design's Delight : on communication design as direction, dealing with the general, in the force field between reality and ideal, between fact and fiction, between thinking and action, between normality and freedom

Toorn, Jan van; Els Kuijpers et al.

ISBN 10: 9064505225 / ISBN 13: 9789064505225

Published by Rotterdam, nai010 publishers, 2006

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Open spine folded stiff wrappers (softcover), 226p + 1 transparant plano, illustrations (chiefly in color), 25 cm. Very good, light yellowing and minor shelf-wear. Text in English and Dutch. Scarce.

Seller Inventory # JHJ_2026_02_05_1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Design's Delight : on communication design as direction, dealing with the general, in the force field between reality and ideal, between fact and fiction, between thinking and action, between normality and freedom
• Publisher: Rotterdam, nai010 publishers
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9064505225
• ISBN 13: 9789064505225
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Graphic Design

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Synopsis

This book presents a number of experimental projects in communication design as a symbolic and public practice. It proceeds from a critical position vis-à-vis the customary mediation of information―a position more necessary than ever, now that design operates so prominently in the entertaining and marketing spectacle organized by the neo-liberal world order as an instrument for the colonization of human existence. Unlike the classic form of visual communication, the dialogic approach is a connective model of visual rhetoric with a polemic nature and polyphonic visual form―a storytelling structure that seeks to reveal the opposing elements of the message and opts for active interpretation by the spectator.