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- catalog abstract "Annotation Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrowpreoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design fromthe broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who reallyhas a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce.Lavin shows how design fits into larger questions of power, democracy, and communication. Manycorporate clients instruct designers to convey order and clarity in order to give their companiesthe look of a clean new world. But since designers cannot clean up messy reality, Lavin shows, theyoften end up simply veiling it.Lacking the power to influence the content of their commercial work,many designers work simultaneously on other, more fulfilling projects. Lavin is especiallyinterested in the graphic designer's role in shaping cultural norms. She examines the anti-Nazipropaganda of John Heartfield, the modernist utopian design of Kurt Schwitters and the neue ringwerbegestalter, the alternative images of women by studio ringl + pit, the activist work of suchcontemporary designers as Marlene McCarty and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and the Internetinnovations of David Steuer and others. Throughout the book, Lavin asks how designers can expand thepleasure, democracy, and vitality of communication.".
- catalog contributor b12090816.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "A baby and a coat hanger: visual propaganda in the U.S. abortion debate -- Pt. 3. The Internet. Dirty work and clean faces: the look of intelligent agents on the Internet -- Confessions from The Couch: issues of persona on the web.".
- catalog description "Annotation Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrowpreoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design fromthe broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who reallyhas a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce.Lavin shows how design fits into larger questions of power, democracy, and communication. Manycorporate clients instruct designers to convey order and clarity in order to give their companiesthe look of a clean new world. But since designers cannot clean up messy reality, Lavin shows, theyoften end up simply veiling it.Lacking the power to influence the content of their commercial work,many designers work simultaneously on other, more fulfilling projects. Lavin is especiallyinterested in the graphic designer's role in shaping cultural norms. She examines the anti-Nazipropaganda of John Heartfield, the modernist utopian design of Kurt Schwitters and the neue ringwerbegestalter, the alternative images of women by studio ringl + pit, the activist work of suchcontemporary designers as Marlene McCarty and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and the Internetinnovations of David Steuer and others. Throughout the book, Lavin asks how designers can expand thepleasure, democracy, and vitality of communication.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Pt. 1. Modernism. Heartfield in context -- For love, modernism, or money: Kurt Schwitters and the circle of new advertising designers -- Ringl + pit: the representation of women in German advertising, 1929-33 -- Pt. 2. Post-world war II and today. U.S. design in the service of commerce--and alternatives -- New traditionalism and corporate identity -- Collectivism in the decade of greed: political art coalitions in the 1980s in New York City -- Portfolio: women and design".
- catalog extent "xv, 201 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262122375 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "741.6 21".
- catalog subject "Commercial art.".
- catalog subject "Graphic arts Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "Graphic arts Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "NC997 .L345 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "A baby and a coat hanger: visual propaganda in the U.S. abortion debate -- Pt. 3. The Internet. Dirty work and clean faces: the look of intelligent agents on the Internet -- Confessions from The Couch: issues of persona on the web.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. 1. Modernism. Heartfield in context -- For love, modernism, or money: Kurt Schwitters and the circle of new advertising designers -- Ringl + pit: the representation of women in German advertising, 1929-33 -- Pt. 2. Post-world war II and today. U.S. design in the service of commerce--and alternatives -- New traditionalism and corporate identity -- Collectivism in the decade of greed: political art coalitions in the 1980s in New York City -- Portfolio: women and design".
- catalog title "Clean new world : culture, politics and graphic design / Maud Lavin.".
- catalog type "text".