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| Named Person: | Paul Rand, Künstler 1914-1996. |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Rand |
| ISBN: | 0300034830 9780300034837 |
| OCLC Number: | 12975201 |
| Description: | xiv, 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Art for art's sake -- The beautiful and the useful -- The designer's problem -- The symbol in visual communication -- Versatility of the symbol -- The trademark -- Seeing stripes -- Imagination and the image -- Integrating form and content -- Ideas about ideas -- The meaning of repetition -- The role of humor -- The rebus and the visual pun -- Collage and montage -- Yesterday and today -- Typographic form and expression -- Legibility and modernity -- The good old "neue typografie" -- Design and the play instinct -- Black black black -- The art of the package: tomorrow and yesterday -- The third dimension -- The complexity of color -- Word pictures -- The lesson of Cézanne -- Politics of design -- Integrity and invention. |
Abstract:
"Brings together many of Rand's ... essays on design and a wide selection of his ... graphic work from the thirties to the present ... Each of the essays is illustrated with examples of Rand's work--posters, book jackets, product advertisements, corporate trademarks, packaging, interiors--as well as the work of artist he admires"--Cover.
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