This wide-ranging compilation of interviews offers
a colorful and candid introduction to the personalities,
passions, and work of thirty- four respected designers,
artists, authors, and media producers. With design as
the common thread, each exchange opens an individual
perspective on the visual culture at large, ranging in
focus from the manipulative power of images to the place
of theory in design practice to the myriad interactions
between design and life. The stories are woven from
experiences in media, theory, history, politics, and the
blurry realm of interactivity, and are told by such
notables as Ellen Lupton discussing her life as a design
curator, Tibor Kalman confronting the relationship
between practice and social responsibility, John
Plunkett on his motivations for founding Wired magazine,
and Ralph Ginzburg telling all about the controversial
publication that ultimately sent him to prison. Both an
oral history of graphic design and a living record of
where we are today, these engaging and evocative
dialogues provide anyone interested in design or popular
culture with a means of understanding, as well as ideas
for working in, the visual world around
them. Included are thirty-four black-and-white
illustrations and interviews with: Massimo Vignelli,
Paul Rand, Stephen Doyle, Jonathan Barnbrook, Jonathan
Hoefler, Michael Ian Kaye, Dana Arnett, Chris Pullman,
Jose Conde, Nicholas Callaway, George Lois, Philip
Meggs, Rick Prelinger, Dan Solo, Rick Poynor, Ellen
Lupton, Katherine McCoy, Johanna Drucker, Ivan
Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Michael Bierut, Sue Coe,
Stuart Ewen, Ralph Ginzburg, Tibor Kalman, Richard Saul
Wurman, Michael Ray Charles, Morris Wyszogrod, Jules
Feiffer, Rodney Alan Greenblat, David Vogler, Edwin
Schlossberg, Robert Greenberg, and John Plunkett.
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