Michael Bierut

Collects some of designer Michael Bierut's best essays on design, covering such topics as color-coded terrorism alerts, the cover of "Catcher in the Rye," the planet Saturn, and the town of Celebration, Florida.

79 Short Essays on Design

For every 1 somewhat interesting essay, there are 20 essays that left me thinking “why am I reading this?”… A significant chunk of this book is the author making obscure references and telling stories that I can’t imagine a single person cares about other than him. Sorry for the dramatic review but I definitely wouldn’t recommend this book. 

Chris Frees

Now in Paperback! 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 1980s through today.

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

Daniel Gynn

Robin Howie

Ricky Burgess

César Steven Toribio

Savas Ozay

Matt Felten

Ri Liu

Amanda Schutz

James Madson

Joshua Line

Catherine Renee Dimalla

Martine Hage

79 Short Essays on Design

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