Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual CultureDesigner and critic Jessica Helfand has emerged as a leading voice of a new generation of designers. Her essays--at once pithy, polemical, and precise--appear in places as diverse as Eye, Print, ID, The New Republic, and the LA Times.The essays collected here decode the technologies, trends, themes, and personalities that define design today, especially "the new media," and provide a road map of things to come. Her first two chapbooks--Paul Rand: American Modernist and Six (+2) Essays on Design and New Media--became instant classics. This new compilation brings together essays from the earlier publications along with more than twenty others on a variety of topics including avatars, "the cult of the scratchy," television, sex on the screen, and more.Designers, students, educators, visual literati, and everyone looking for an entertaining and insightful guide to the world of design today will not find a better or more approachable book on the subject. |
Contents
The New Screen Aesthetic | vii |
Age of the Behemoth | xiii |
Surveillance and the Modern Spectator | xix |
Spin and the Pseudo Screen Event | 3 |
The Dynamics of Choice and the Death of Hierarchy | 9 |
The New Illiteracy | 15 |
Cult of the Scratchy | 21 |
The New Visual Language | 29 |
The Lost Legacy of Film | 43 |
On Sound Authenticity and Cultural Amnesia | 49 |
The Remembered Image | 55 |
The Modern Designer | 61 |
The Modern Professor | 75 |
A Letter to Fiona on First Reading The End of Print | 89 |
Index | 93 |
Glossary | 99 |
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Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture Jessica Helfand Limited preview - 2001 |
Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture Jessica Helfand No preview available - 2001 |
Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture Jessica Helfand No preview available - 2001 |
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