Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture Book

Designer 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, The New Republic, and the LA Times. Helfand's essays decode the technologies, trends, and visual phenomena that frame contemporary design theory and practice, addressing topics as far-ranging as Talking Barbies, mindless manifestoes, de Stijl geometry, scratchy typography, reality television, and chicken nuggets. Designers, students, and educators looking for an insightful and provocative guide to the world of design will not ind a better or a more approachable book. Jessica Helfand is on the graduate faculty at Yale School of Art, is a contributing editor to Eye and ID magazines, and is a partner with William Drenttel in Winterhouse Studio in northwest Connecticut.Read More