Name: 79 Short Essays on Design
ISBN: 9781568986999

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.