VISUAL CULTURE, DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Popular Pleasures
An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture
Paul Duncum A unique approach to analysing popular visual culture, showing that its aesthetic pleasures are perennial in nature and an intrinsic part of what it is to be human. Sentimental, violent, vulgar, spectacular, humorous… Paul Duncum considers the historical, critical discourses; the lures; and socio-political issues raised by the aesthetic pleasures in 15 individually dedicated chapters. The elite discourse of condemning popular culture on the grounds of taste, as derived from the fine arts, is rejected; and much of premodern fine art is revisioned as offering the same aesthetic pleasures as today’s popular visual culture. Paul Duncum is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of Picture Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2020).
September 2021 • 38 mono illus 248 pages • 246 x 189mm 9781350193390 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Information Design for the Common Good Human-centric Approaches to Contemporary Design Challenges
Courtney Marchese An exploration into how to address information design problems through visualizations while understanding and keeping the common good at the centre of the work. This book explores how the design community can address some of the world’s most difficult problems at the local, national, and global scale. Each chapter strategically combines theory and practice to examine how to identify causes and locate accurate data, truth and integrity in information design, the information design/data visualization process, understanding audiences, crafting meaningful narratives, and measuring the impact of a design. Courtney Marchese is a Connecticut-based graphic designer and educator, who teaches at Quinnipiac University.
September 2021 • 200 colour illus 216 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350117266 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Disobedience of Design Gui Bonsiepe
Edited by Lara Penin The first English anthology of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present day. Addressing questions of non-Western design and a design practice that is both radical and democratic, these writings explore the importance of the Ulm design school’s approach, design’s relationship with democracy, ethics and politics, and design in relation to literacy, language, visuality and cogition. This indispensable volume includes new interviews and original, previously unpublished texts by Bonsiepe. Lara Penin is associate professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design, New York, USA, where she is director of the graduate (MFA) program in Transdisciplinary Design and co-founder of Parsons DESIS Lab.
December 2021 24 mono illus, 15 colour illus 400 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350162440 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Series: Radical Thinkers in Design
Design Noir
The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby A new edition of a classic work of speculative design exploring the revolutionary and uncanny impact of electronic technologies on our lives. Investigating the physical and cultural effects of the digital domain, Design Noir demonstrates that mobile phones, computers and televisions profoundly influence people's experience of their environment. This reissue features a new introduction by design critic Alice Twemlow, reflecting on the book’s contemporary relevance. This is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby’s work. Anthony Dunne is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School, USA. Fiona Raby is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School, USA.
July 2021 • 176 pages 244 x 169mm • 9781350070639 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Series: Radical Thinkers in Design Rights sold: Chinese Simplified
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