Looking Closer 5 Pa

This new volume in the acclaimed series offers astute and frequentlyontroversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. "ooking Closer 5" is a collection of essays that takes stock of the qualitynd profundity of graphic design writing published in professional journals,eneral interest magazines and on the internet. Among the many themesiscussed in this volume are design as popular culture, politics, aesthetics,ocial responsibility, and the future of design and typography. Students,esigners just starting out, and veterans alike will savour this anthology,ith its material gathered from some of the world's top graphic designriters and practitioners, as well as commentaries from outside therofession.

Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA Design: Designer as Author+Entrepreneur program at New York's School of Visual Arts. He is the author, editor and co-editor of more than one hundred books on design and popular culture.