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Design of a Lifetime
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TD 63-73
TD 63-73: Total Design and its pioneering role in graphic design was first published in 2011, selling out almost immediately. This new and expanded edition of TD 63-73 is a unique insider's account of Total Design's golden period. The book describes how a band of idealistic Dutch designers came together to form one of the first multidisciplinary design groups - one that helped shape the future of design in Europe and beyond. Total Design began in Amsterdam in 1963. Ben Bos joined the founders (Wim Crouwel, Benno Wissing, Friso Kramer and the Schwarz Brothers) from the outset. Together and individually, they set new benchmarks for typography, identity design, cultural design, exhibition design and product design. TD 63-73 contains hundreds of images from the TD archive, and in Ben Bos's text the reader is given a personal history of a design group that remains as important today as it did when it launched in 1963.
AGI
A history of the leading design agency cites its members' pivotal influence on graphic design throughout the past half century, chronicling past and present developments in visual communication while presenting a series of illustrated biographies for key designers.
Knowledge Matters
Exploring the changing role of the architect though the knowledge process of the world-renowned architecture firm UNStudio.
Fighting Colors
Since the early days of flight, military pilots have personalized aircraft with artistic creations, giving each plane a unique identity and aircrews a sense of pride in ""their war bird."" This comprehensive volume covers the technical aspect on how nose art was applied to vintage military aircraft, with hundreds of fighters and bombers pictured. The uses of materials, supplies, and development of nose art designs are discussed with surviving nose artists. The author examines and analyzes WWII–era photographs and reveals their content along with numerous photos never before published. Recreating step-by-step flying war bird nose art restorations is outlined for the first time. Fighting Colors is an enjoyable read for military personnel and a graphic tool for all enthusiasts of pinup and vintage aircraft nose art.
Stories and Portraits of the Self
In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media to become one of the primary means of production of culture. This volume is intended to cover such an historical, social and intellectual ground, where self-representation comes to the fore. Targeting mostly an academic readership but certainly also of interest to the general educated public, it collects a wide range of essays dealing with diverse modes of life writing and portraying from a varie...
Street Talk
This is a fascinating look at the medium of the poster in the current climate of competing electronic communication. Angharad Lewis, from UK magazine Grafik, discusses the success and failure of the poster as a medium today, against rival mediums such as
Nation Building
Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration.
South Carolina Slave Narratives
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
