79 Seventy Nine Short Essays On Design

Author: Michael Bierut

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ISBN : 9781616890612
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
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A collection of essays by Michael Bierut, Pentagram partner, cofounder of the website Design Observer, and AIGA board member. Bierut is one of the best-respected and most-beloved writers within the graphic design field, a spokesman for the profession, and a man pretty much universally admired within the academy and among practitioners. This collection includes writings from the 1980's through to today.

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"Bierut is the most perceptive and wittiest writer about design working today." -- Aaron Betsky, Architect magazine

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Michael Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnatiris College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990, he was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates in the U.S.A.

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