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About Design: Insights and Provocations for Graphic Design Enthusiasts
Here is a definitive, expansive observational, and knowledge-infused treatise that is expected to be particularly engaging for students and educators as well as for design practitioners.
About Design offers an enlightening and opinionated, albeit concise, excursion concerning many facets of the field of design. It emphasizes the discipline of graphic design, while incorporating a taste of the author’s makeup. The content will tempt any readers who may be marginally inquisitive concerning visual art, design, and the web of “creativity.”
This informative, and sometimes scrappy, expedition is founded on the author’s fifty-five years’ entrenchment in design practice and higher education. Consequently, there are many pointed and sometimes novel perspectives, but it is essentially grounded on the commonly acknowledged doctrines that exist within the field. Some of the particular chapter topics deal
The aforementioned themes, along with others, are interspersed with interludes that challenge certain long-held assumptions, provide contextual references, offer insights and suggest some fresh ways to analyze how we see, choose, inspire, and do.
About Design offers an enlightening and opinionated, albeit concise, excursion concerning many facets of the field of design. It emphasizes the discipline of graphic design, while incorporating a taste of the author’s makeup. The content will tempt any readers who may be marginally inquisitive concerning visual art, design, and the web of “creativity.”
This informative, and sometimes scrappy, expedition is founded on the author’s fifty-five years’ entrenchment in design practice and higher education. Consequently, there are many pointed and sometimes novel perspectives, but it is essentially grounded on the commonly acknowledged doctrines that exist within the field. Some of the particular chapter topics deal
The aforementioned themes, along with others, are interspersed with interludes that challenge certain long-held assumptions, provide contextual references, offer insights and suggest some fresh ways to analyze how we see, choose, inspire, and do.
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208 pages, Paperback
Published October 2, 2018
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August 14, 2021
3.75 stars.
I really enjoyed the discussions on art, design, graphic design, teaching, especially how some of those things have changed over the years and also how some of those things don't actually really need to change over the years.
I really enjoyed the discussions on art, design, graphic design, teaching, especially how some of those things have changed over the years and also how some of those things don't actually really need to change over the years.
July 15, 2022
With a unique form factor and a unique way of presenting information, About Design served as the greatest insight into what it means to be a graphic designer. It got me to understand the profession beyond what it creates.
June 24, 2025
I enjoyed the very precise and systematic approach to graphic design laid out here. The book is about educational practices as much if not more than it is “about Design”.
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