How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World

By Michael Bierut

Culture Is Not Always Popular

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A collection of writing about design from the influential, eclectic, and adventurous Design Observer.Founded in 2003, Design Observer inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design an...

Profile: Pentagram Design

By Rick Poynor, Michael Bierut, Susan Yelavich

Profile Celebrates The Individual Designers Who Are Partners Of The International Design Studios Of Pentagram. Nineteen Partners Are Profiled By Nineteen Distinguished Authors Alongside Exploration...

Graphic Design New York

By William Drenttel, D.K. Holland, Michael Bierut

Tibor Kalman Perverse Optimist

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Seventy nine Short Essays on Design

By Michael Bierut

Tibor Kalman

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Looking Closer 3 Vol. 3

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"In manifestos, broadsides, articles, and conference papers, designers and design observers grapple with the critical issues of Modernism, commercialism, aesthetics, feminism, traditionalism versus...

Looking Closer 4

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Looking Closer 5: Critical Writings On Graphic Design

By Steven Heller, Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Michael Beirut

The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005.  This collection of essays takes stock of the quality an...