Design Issues: How Graphic Design Informs Society

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This anthology of mind-teasers explores how design communicates with, rubs itself against, and sometimes stumbles around the "real" world, ranging from bottom-line issues such as designing a corporate identity to the philosophical dimensions of designing for the 21st century. Based on the "Design Issues" column in "Communications Arts", this volume presents design connoisseurs with a four-year selection of the column's most intriguing and provocative issues. An unorthodox mix of 20 contributors ranging from hard-core designers to advertising strategists look at contemporary design in a critical, educational, ethical, historical, social and often humorous context.

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DK Holland is design issues editor of Communication Arts, and business editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. A senior art director and partner of the internationally known design firm, Pushpin Group, she is the recipient of the 1999 Walter Hortens Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional Practice from the Graphic Artists Guild. The author of numerous articles on design, she is a co-editor of Looking Closer and Looking Closer 2 (Allworth Press). She lives in Brooklyn, NY.