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Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

By Michael Bierut

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| Hardcover | 9781568986999

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79 Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut’s critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Beirut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITContinue

2 Reviews

Boring.

Never happened to me before: I stopped reading it because of its totally uninteresting contents!
Agree with who's saying that it's boring and self-referenced.
With plenty of design essays out there it's definitely not worth reading.

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Albyantoniazzi said on Sep 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

The graphic design criticism bibliography is a young discipline as this book easily demonstrates.
A few very interesting chapters among many boring and self-referenced pages by the greatest "peacock" in the field.

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Venti caratteruzzi said on Apr 3, 2009 | Add your feedback