Books Received Blau, Eva and Ivan Rupnik. Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice. : Actar, 2009. ISBN 978-84-96540-57-6; 335 pages. Black and white Victor Margolin illustrations; maps, and diagrams. The documentation of an imaginative project Aynsley, Jeremy. Designing Modern . : to study Zagreb as a city in transition. With the support Reaktion Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86189-401-4 of maps, diagrams, and photographs to supplement the (paperback); 255 pages. Color and black and white written texts, the authors describe the city as a dynamic illustrations. work in progress in which plays a central One of a series of books from Reaktion that role. examines modern design in different countries. The author begins with the 1870s and ends with 2005. An Calvera, Anna, ed. De lo Bello de las Cosas: Materiales excellent summary of material from numerous sources para una Estetica del diseño (Of the Beauty of Things: with considerable new material in English about Materials for an Esthetic of Design). Barcelona: postwar design in East and West Germany. Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2007. ISBN 978-84-252-2223-8 (paperback); black and white illustrations. In Spanish. Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/26/2/88/1714763/desi_r_00013.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 Beegan, Gerry. The Mass Image: A Social History of A collection of scholarly essays by design Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London. theoreticians and designers that explores the relation of Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. philosophy to design aesthetics. ISBN 978-0-230-55327-9 (hardback); 302 pages. Black Many of the authors draw on the writings and white illustrations. of established philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty, A study that relates the production of popular Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida to elucidate imagery in late nineteenth century London to the the creation and reception of designed objects and development of technology, publishing, and strategies graphics. of forming a mass audience. The author discusses how the media presented London as an urban center, the Candlin, Fiona and Raiford Guins, eds. The Object role of the pictorial magazine, and the illustration of Reader. Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 2009. everyday life. ISBN 978-0-415-45230 (paperback); 554 pages. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. Bello, Paula. Goodscapes: Global Design Processes. An extensive collection of texts about objects Helsinki: University of Art and Design, 2008. ISBN by authors from diverse disciplines. The theoretical 978-951-558257-7; 239 pages. Color illustrations and texts are supplemented by a collection of short essays diagrams. about specific objects. Based on the author’s PhD dissertation, this book describes the movement of goods around the Casey, Michael. Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image. world as another type of circulation or flow. Design is New York: Vintage, 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-27930-9 discussed from cross-cultural perspective and linked to (paperback); 388 pages. Black and white illustrations. larger forces of globalization. Written by a journalist, this book describes the many visual forms in which the memory of Che Bernard, Pierre. My Work is Not My Work: Design for Guevara is enshrined. Beginning with an account of the Public Domain. Baden: Lars Müller, 2007. ISBN how the famous Korda photograph was taken, the 978-3-03778-087-9; 319 pages. Color illustrations. author continues with discussions of how the image Pierre Bernard, co-founder of the design has circulated in , Bolivia, Venezuela, North collective Grapus and now leader of the America, and elsewhere in the world. studio Atelier de Création Graphique, has produced documentation in text and images of his career as a graphic designer for the public sphere. Following several introductory texts by Bernard, the work is presented as projects that are organized by categories including, politics, culture, science, and public space.

88 Design Issues: Volume 26, Number 2 Spring 2010 Crous Vidal u la Grafia Latina (Crous Vidal and the Grafica Iliprandi, Giancarlo. Letterando/Lettering. Mantova: Latina). Museu d’Art Jaume Morera, 2008. ISBN 978-84- Maurizio Corraini, 2005. 128 pages. Color illustrations. 96855-23-6 (paperback); 357 pages. Color illustrations. In Italian and English. Texts in Catalan, Spanish, French, and English. Two collections of experimental magazine A collection of essays and original texts that covers, posters, and graphic compositions by the Italian accompanied an exhibition of work by the Spanish graphic designer, Giancarlo Iliprandi. Drawn from his typographer, Enric Crous Vidal. Essays by scholars career of more than fifty years, the visual examples are including Raquel Pelta and Andreu Balius address accompanied by the designer’s short commentaries. topics such as Crous Vidal and the Grafica Latina, the Grafica Latina in , and technical descriptions of Karimspace: The Architecture of Karim Rashid. Forward by Crous Vidal’s type designs. The selection of texts by the Daniel Libeskind. Introduction by Alessandro Mendini. typographer addresses different aspects of his design ISBN 978-0-8478-3231-6 (hardcover); 256 pages. Color philosophy. photographs. A heavily illustrated volume that documents Fernández, Sylvia and Gui Bonsiepe, eds. Historia del projects for interiors by the well-known industrial diseño en América Latina y el Caribe; Industrialización y designer Karim Rashid. Included are essays by Rashid Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/26/2/88/1714763/desi_r_00013.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 comunicación visual para la autonomía (History of Design and the Italian designer-theorist Alessandro Mendini. in Latin America and the Carribean: Industrialization and Visual Communication for Autonomy). São Paulo; Editora Kenaan-Kedar, Nurith. The Art of Goldsmithing: Jacobi Blücher, 2008. ISBN 978-85-212-0447-3; 371 pages. Jewelry in the Early Years of ’s Statehood. : Color and black and white illustrations. In Spanish. A Eretz Israel Museum, 2008. Color illustrations. In Portuguese edition is forthcoming. Hebrew and English. A long awaited volume that considers design The catalogue of an exhibition curated by in all its forms in Latin America, primarily in the a leading Israeli art historian. The extensive visual years after World War II. Essays on specific countries documentation is accompanied by an essay that are combined with more general thematic essays on provides an historic context for the jewelry and also such topics as design education, design and artisan explains its meaning within the first two decades of production, and sustainable design. A timeline from Israeli statehood. 1950 to 2000 is also included. Kyes, Zak and Mark Owens, eds. Forms of Finessi, Beppe. Fabio Novembre. : Skira, 2008. Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design. ISBN 978-88-7624-645-6 (hardback); 229 pages. Color London: Architectural Association, 2007. ISBN illustrations. 978-1-902902-62-3; 168 pages. Color and black and A monograph that presents the work of Italian white illustrations. designer and architect Fabio Novembre. Included is The catalogue of an exhibition that addresses visual documentation of many designs by Novembre the question of how critical graphic designers respond for furniture, interiors, and installations; a poetic text to architecture. Several experimental essays are consisting of drawings and writing, a chronology of his included as well as documentation of projects by Paul projects, and a biography. Elliman, Michael Worthington, Metahaven, and others.

Futur Antérieur; L’avant-garde et le livre yiddish Nadin, Mihai. Anticipation. Baden: Lars Müller, (1914-1939) [Futur/Past: The Avant-garde and the yiddish 2002. 126 pages. Black and white illustrations. DVD book (1914-1939). Paris: Skira Flammarion, 2009. ISBN included. In German and English. 978-2-0812-2539-8 (hardback); 272 pages. Color and A collaboration between Nadin, a design black and white illustrations. In French theorist, and the German graphic designer Uwe The catalogue of an exhibition held at the Loesch, who designed the book. The book’s theme is Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme in Paris. Several Anticipation, which is explored by the author through informative essays introduce sections on the various a series of definitions and visualized by Loesch designers. Some like El Lissitzky and Nathan Altman through typographic layout, color-coding, diagrams, are well known, but others are little known as is their and photographs. work. Ample color reproductions of many rarely seen pieces are included.

Design Issues: Volume 26, Number 2 Spring 2010 89 Narotzky, Viviana. La Barcelona del Diseño (The Barcelona Tooming, Kaja. Toward a Poetics of Fibre Art and Design: of Design). Barcelona: Santa & Cole, 2007. ISBN 978-84- Aesthetic and Acoustic Qualities of Hand-tufted Materials 934626-4-2 (paperback); 329 pages. Black and white in Interior Spatial Design. Göteborg: Art Monitor, 2007. illustrations. In Spanish. ISBN 978-91-975911-5-7; 176 pages. Color illustrations. A critical history of how Barcelona developed Based on the author’s doctoral dissertation as a design center. The author addresses such topics as at Göteborg University, this volume explores specific the formation of a canon, design and the nation, and qualities of fiber art and design as they relate to the how design contributed to the renewal of Barcelona as design of interiors. Theoretical analysis is combined a city. with the description of a project by the author to create three fiber works for an historic Swedish manor house. Obey: Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey. Berkeley: Gingko Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-58423-349-7; Vossoughian, Nader. Otto Neurath: The Language of the 448 pages. Color illustrations. Global Polis. : NAi Publishers, 2008. ISBN The catalogue of an exhibition of work by 978-90-5662-350-0; 174 pages, color and black and Shepard Fairey. The heavily illustrated book is divided white illustrations. in to thematic categories that include Fairey’s Obey the A scholarly assessment of Otto Neurath’s life Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/26/2/88/1714763/desi_r_00013.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 Giant campaign as well as numerous other projects that and work. Neurath, who invented the Isotype symbol combine political graphics (the Obama poster) with system, spent many years seeking applications for it skateboard designs, posters for rock bands, and book in public displays in museums, at conferences, and covers. in other venues. The book is amply illustrated with documentary photographs and little-known graphic Rutter, Lance and Yann Legendre, eds. Chicago examples of Neurath’s work. International Poster Biennial, 2008 First Edition. Chicago, Legendre + Rutter, 2009. 304 pages. Color illustrations. Votolato, Gregory. Transport Design: A Travel History. The catalogue of the first Chicago International London: Reaktion Books, 2007. ISBN 978 1 86189-329-1 Poster Biennial. Entries selected for the exhibition are (paperback); 239 pages. Black and white illustrations. presented as full-page color images. Introducing the Another book in the Reaktion series. The catalogue are essays by Victor Margolin and Steven author considers transport of different kinds ranging Heller. from trains and automobiles to ships and airplanes.

Sachs, Tom. Space Program. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Vukic, Fedja, ed. Zagreb: Modernity and the City. ISBN Gallery, 2007. Distributed by Rizzoli International 953-174-185-9; 361 pages. Black and white illustrations. Publications. ISBN 978-0-8478-3226-2 (paperback); 280 A collection of articles and essays with pages. Color illustrations. different theoretical approaches that trace the This exhibition catalogue presents a project of emergence of Zagreb as a modern city. Topics include artist Tom Sachs to build versions of NASA’s LEM or architecture, design, visual arts, literature, music, and Lunar Exploration Module and Mission Control Center town planning. and to simulate their use.

Thomas, Mienke Simon. Dutch Design: A History. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-86189-380-2 (paperback); 272 pages. Black and white and color illustrations. Published in the series of Reaktion books that deals with design in different countries and sectors. The author begins with Art Nouveau and continues to the present, covering product and graphic design as well as some projects designed for public space.

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