Barry Dawson. Street Graphics New York. New York:
Thames & Hudson, 2003. ISBN 0-500-28405-9 (Papier-
back); 112 Seiten, 208 color illustrations.
One of a series of collections of urban ephem-
era including books on Cuba, India and Tokyo. Das
one includes a lot of Post-9/11 imagery.
Michael Dawson. The Consumer Trap: Big Business
Marketing in American Life. Champaign IL: Universität
of Illinois Press, 2003. ISBN 0252028090; 203 Seiten.
The author, adjunct lecturer in Sociology at
Portland State University, provides a history of twen-
tieth century marketing ideas and examines the social
and economic costs to the consumer—from a strong
anti-corporate point of view.
Directory of Illustration No.20. Santa Barbara CA:
Serbin Communications for Graphic Artists Guild,
2003. ISBN 1-8831823-6.
Laurent De Brunhoff. Babar’s Museum of Art. Neu
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-8109-4597-5
(hardcover); 44 Seiten.
A children’s book for all designers with a sense
of humor (and a quiz of your art knowledge). Includes
Babar as Rodin’s Balzac! Babar notes on p. 35: “There
are no rules to tell us what art is.”
Designed by Peter Saville. Edited by Emily King.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. ISBN
1-56898-422-7 (hardcover); 192 Seiten, 250 color illustra-
tionen, index.
First book on this major graphic designer
covering his work from 1978 to the present; includes
an interview with him and essays by design and music
critics.
Eating Architecture. Edited by Jamie Horowitz and
Paulette Singley. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
ISBN 0-262-08322-1 (hardcover); 385 Seiten; illustra-
tionen, index.
Anthology of nineteen essays that investigates
the relationships between architectural aspects of food
preparation and gastronomic aspects of architecture.
Far ranging essays engage issues of conviviality,
Erinnerung, loss, globalization, gingerbread houses and
mehr.
Books Received
Mary Catharine Johnsen
Arend Bandsma and Robin Brandt. Flatweaves of
Truthahn. New York: Phillip Wilson Publishers, distrib-
uted by Palgrave Global Publishing at St. Martin’s
Drücken Sie, 2004. ISBN 0-85667-528-8 (hardcover); 164 Seiten;
color illustrations, index.
Information for collectors on kilim patterns,
dyes, and weaving techniques of the Turkic and
Kurdish nomadic groups.
Robert P. Bareikis and Daniel Piersol. Visions from the
Soul: the Woodcuts of Hans Friedrich Grohs. Seattle:
University of Washington Press for New Orleans
Museum of Art, 2003. ISBN 0-89494-088-0 (paperback);
112 Seiten, 81 Illustrationen.
Catalog for traveling exhibition of woodcuts
by German Expressionist who used the Dance of Death
theme to show the wars and strife that he experienced
in Germany.
“The Beauty of Life” William Morris & The Art of
Design” Edited by Diane Waggoner. New York: Thames
& Hudson, Inc. 2003. ISBN 0-500-28434-2 (paperback);
176 Seiten, 128 Illustrationen, index.
Catalog for exhibit at The Huntington Library,
Art Collections and Botanical Gardens and then at the
Yale Center for British Art. Essays by noted scholars on
Morris as designer, the legacy of Morris & Unternehmen,
and his influence on American Arts & Crafts. 80 color
Illustrationen.
Beverly Bundy. The Century in Food: America’s Fads
and Favorites. Portland, OR: Collectors Press, 2002.
ISBN 1-888054-67-0 (hardcover); 192 pages color +
black & white illustrations; index.
“A look at the inventions, Innovationen, Und
ingenuity that fueled American appetites”—Intro. P. 4.
In addition to the above, this book is good for a study
of the logos and advertising for some of the 25,000 neu
food products introduced each year.
Geoffrey Caban. World Graphic Design: Contemporary
Graphics from Africa, the Far East, Latin America
and the Middle East. London, New York: Merrell
Publishers Ltd, 2004. ISBN 1-85894-219-5 (hardcover);
160 Seiten, 250 color illustrations, index.
Four essays introduce the cultural and political
context of each region. Surveys recent work in posters,
book and record covers, packaging and promotion.
Spreads feature works by individual designers or
studios.
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Caroline Evans. Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle,
Modernity, and Deathliness. New Haven: Yale
Universitätsverlag, 2003. ISBN 0-300-10192-9 (hardcover);
320 Seiten, 200 Illustrationen, 100 of them in color, index.
Tony Kushner. The Art of Maurice Sendak 1980 to the
Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. ISBN
0-8109-4448-0 (hardback); 223 Seiten, color illustrations,
index.
Cataloged as “Fashion-social aspects,” the
Lavishly reproduces set and costume designs
chapters include: spectacle, phantasmagoria, cruelty,
deathliness, trauma, and modernity. Evans argues that
fashion plays a leading role in constructing images and
meanings during times of rapid change, here the 1990.
for The Nutcracker, The Magic Flute and The Love for
Three Oranges; also artwork for posters, CD covers,
book jackets and adult books. (Let’s extend the concept
of “national treasure” to include Sendak! —Ed.)
Françoise Fromonot. Glenn Murcutt: Buildings
+Projects 1962–2003. New York: Thames & Hudson
Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-500-34193-1 (hardcover); 326 Seiten;
406 Illustrationen, 197 of them in color, plans and eleva-
tionen.
Lippincott Mercer (consultancy). Sense: the Art and
Science of Creating Lasting Brands. Gloucester MA:
Rockport for Lippincott Mercer, 2004. ISBN 1-59253-
014-1 (2 volume set paperback); 528 Seiten, 1,250 color
Illustrationen.
Work of Australian architect who won the 2002
Compilation of the best of 50 years of the
Pritzker Prize.
Clive Grinyer. Smart Design: Products that Change
Our Lives. Crans-Près-Célingy: RotoVision, 2001. ISBN
2-88046-524-9 (paperback); 160 Seiten, color illustra-
tions and photographs.
Profiles of twenty-four great products includ-
ing some concept sketches and schematic drawings.
(Great for students!)
Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-
Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia,
1918–1991. Edited by Dubravka Djuric and Misko
Suvakovic. Cambridge MA:MIT Press, 2003. ISBN
0-262-04216-9 (hardcover); 605 Seiten, 214 Illustrationen,
53 in color, index.
Critical survey in four sections: Kunst, Culture,
Politik, and Philosophy; Literatur; Visual Art and
Architecture; and Scenic and Media Arts. Censorship
and language barriers have made these works inacces-
sible until this book that gives accounts of movements
such as Signalism, Yugo-Dada, Zenitism, and maga-
zines like Danas, Red Pilot, Tank and Zvrk.
Harold Koda. Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed.
New Haven: Yale University Press for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 2004. ISBN 0-300-10312-3 (paperback);
168 Seiten, 50 B/W and 50 color illustrations.
Costume Institute curator Koda presents
extremes of the human physical ideal. To achieve this
ideal, men and women have constricted, padded,
corseted, heightened and extended clothing and body
for millenia. (I experienced a combination of giggling
and cringing while looking at this book—Ed.)
consultancy’s periodical Sense where they examined
the areas of naming, Forschung, design and brand strat-
eins. The founder, J. Gordon Lippincott, coined the term
“corporate identity.”
Whitney Matheson. Atomic Home: A Guided Tour of
the American Dream. Portland, OR: Collectors Press,
2004. ISBN 1-888054-89-1 (paperback); 176 Seiten;
chiefly color illustrations.
A picture-peaen to suburbia and the plastics,
Produkte, and advertising that made the post-WWII
American Dream possible with notes by a journalist
who specializes in popular culture. She even notes the
bad things like a 1952 book touting asbestos siding.
Nostaliga for baby-boomers and ancient history for
current students.
Simon Morley. Writing on the Wall: Word and Image
in Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2003. ISBN 0-520-24108-8 (hardcover); 224 Seiten, color
Illustrationen, index.
The author-artist surveys the bond between
word and image in art from the 19th century to the
present—Dada and surrealism, constructivist typogra-
phy, postwar gesture painting, advertising and hyper-
Text.
Horst and Ilse Moser. Surprise Me! Editorial Design.
Translated by David H. Wilson. West New York, NJ:
Mark Batty Publisher LLC, 2003. ISBN 0-9725636-0-1
(hardcover); 286 Seiten; color illustrations, indexes.
Using 1500 illustrations from his personal
collection of one million magazines, Moser explains
how real magazines are put together, from grids to
covers, logos, and samples of great layouts by theme.
This book covers every aspect of magazine and edito-
rial design.
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Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman. The Design
Way: International Change in an Unpredicatable
Welt. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology
Veröffentlichungen, 2003. ISBN 0-87778-305-5; 327 Seiten,
index.
The second subtitle, “foundations and funda-
mentals of design competence,” accurately portrays the
soul of this book. The authors evaluate the importance
of change, Systeme, freedom, inquiry, learning, judg-
ment, values and meaning in design and the inter-
relationships of all of the above between a designer,
Projekte, client, users and society.
Bradley Quinn. The Fashion of Architecture. New York:
Berg Pullishers, distributed by NYU Press, 2003. ISBN
1-85973-752-8 (hardcover); 1-85973-757-9 (paperback);
255 Seiten, index.
Examines common themes shared by design-
ers of both fashion and architecture such as structure
and spatial boundaries, volumes and tensions, camou-
flage and shelter, functionalism and expression. Well-
chosen images.
David Raizman. History of Modern Design. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc. 2004. ISBN 0-13-
184266-8 (hardcover); 0-13-183040-6 (paperback); 400
Seiten; 500 Illustrationen; bibliographic essay, index.
By a Drexel University professor, this “illus-
trated history of modern design provides a balanced
chronological survey of decorative arts, industrial
design and graphic design from the 18th through the
20th centuries.” (Publisher’s note). Raizman studies the
impact of new industrial materials on design—from
steel to plywood, plastic and nylon to transistors and
nanotubes. (Possibly a nice textbook—Ed.)
Margaret Re. Typographically Speaking: The Art of
Matthew Carter. New York: Princeton Architectural
Drücken Sie, 2003. 2d ed. ISBN 1-56898-427-8 (paperback);
104 Seiten. With essays by Johanna Drucker and James
Moseley.
Catalog to accompany exhibit at The Albin
Ö. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland
Baltimore County, that then traveled to other venues.
Carter worked closely with the curators providing
access to his archives and historical context. The book
reproduces the exhibit panels, with additional check-
lists, bibliography and chronology. Very useful, good
spreads of ITC Galliard and Bell Centennial.
Joseph Scheer. Night Visions: the Secret Designs of
Moths. München, New York, usw.: Prestel, 2003. ISBN 3-
7913-2968-5 (hardcover); 120 Seiten; color illustrations.
Coffee-table-book-sized tour-de-force of digi-
tal printing and high-resolution scanning technology
showing the beautiful variety of design and pattern
seen in 1000 moth species found in one backyard. Fine
essay by Johanna Drucker on the inter-relations of art,
nature, reproducing printing and photographic tech-
nologies and our different experiences of the original
and the reproductions.
Frank Stella. Working Space. Cambridge MA: Harvard
Universitätsverlag, 2003. ISBN 0-674-95961-2 (Papier-
back); 177 Seiten, 36 color, 56 duotones index.
Paperback edition of the 1983–84 Charles Eliot
Norton Lectures where Stella clarifies the pictoriality
and intentions of abstract painting by examining other
change-points of pictorial space such as Caravaggio,
Kandinsky, and Picasso. The “working space” of
the title is pictorial space: “We want paint to build
a pictorial space that accommodates the reach of all
our gestures, imaginative as well as physical.” P. 60.
(Highly recommended — Ed.)
Jan V. White. Editing by Design: for Designers, Kunst
Directors, and Editors—the Classic Guide to Winning
Readers, Third Edition. New York: Allworth Press,
2003. ISBN 1-58115-302-3 (paperback); 256 Seiten, 739
B/W, 47 color illustrations, index.
Packed with practical solutions that will help
editors and designers achieve maximum impact. (ICH
couldn’t resist. Isn’t English wonderful?—Ed.)
Julie Wosk. Women and the Machine: Darstellungen
from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN
0-9018-6607-3 (hardcover); 294 Seiten, B/W & color
Illustrationen, index.
“Art historian Wosk examines the role of
machines in helping women reconfigure and trans-
form their lives.” (Dustjacket). Studying the images
and stories of how women have worked with spin-
ning wheels, typewriters, Automobile, airplanes and
computers, she illuminates both the advances women
have made and the gender stereotypes and ambiva-
lence they’ve endured.
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