"The essays in this book were written for various periodicals, Web site journals, and blogs, including Print magazine, Eye magazine, Baseline magazine, Metropolis magazine, Grafik magazine, DesignObserver.com, Voice: AIGA Journal of Design, and The New York Times T Magazine's "The Moment" blog"--Acknowledgments.
Includes index.
Introduction: Snap, crackle, pop!
What's cool, what's not. When it's cool to say cool ; Curse of the "D" word ; The decade of dirty design ; Give a hand to hand lettering ; You're not just a designer anymore...or are you?
Pop icons. Design for Obama ; Shepard Fairey is not a crook ; Father of Shrek, grandfather of Tweet ; When the one-eyed man was king ; A snippet of Interview history ; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ; The last loving parody of the first family ; The design of necromancy ; A Kodak moment ; Take me out to the Old Yankee Stadium
Design literacy. Cult of the squiggly ; When bad things happen to good logos ; A good trademark : a historical perspective ; Design patois ; The return of stencil lettering ; Velvet touch lettering redux ; Clipping art, one engraving at a time ; Berthold's 1924 Hebrew Type Catalogue ; First on deco ; The missing link : graphic design trade magazines and the modern avant garde ; Better than real : graphic design facsimiles steal the stage ; Illusionism meet dimensionalism ; The adritus of viral and guerilla advertising
Beware! Got flu? The art of H1N1 posters ; Japanese face masks ; Névrivitamine, Sérifer, Hémoluol, and Pancriol ; Hey Stinky, you're too fat, and you skin's bad too! ; Topanga, we hardly knew ya ; The sky is falling
Art for art's sake. SMS
shit must stop : art to go, sixties style ; Another side of Ladislav Sutnar ; The Arthur Szyk renaissance ; Why does John Baeder paint diners?
Intelligent design. Who owns intelligent design? ; A designer by any other name... ; How not to be motivated
Art for the masses. How much is that artifact in the window? ; A mass for mass-market paperbacks ; Confessions of a book catalogue reader ; Music design : think small ; Blue Q : novelty typecasting ; Titling home movies, Mitten's way ; Notgeld : the design of emergency money ; The art and craft of grocery signs ; And the trophy for the most generic trophy goes to... ; Canned laughter ; Tracking the street measles
Nothing sacred. You mean, not all designers are liberal? ; When satire was more than funny ; My first taste of political satire ; Once upon a time, there was a big bad president ; The model president : George W. Bush advertising star ; Where have you gone, R. Cobb? ; Mad music ; Covering weirdo [magazine].
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Pop : how graphic design shapes popular culture by Steven Heller. ISBN 9781581157154. Published by Allworth in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
