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).

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.

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 This indispensable volume includes new interviews and original, previously unpublished texts by Bonsiepe.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.

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.

September 2021 • 38 mono illus 248 pages • 246 x 189mm 9781350193390 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

September 2021 • 200 colour illus 216 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350117266 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

December 2021 24 mono illus, 15 colour illus 400 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350162440 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Series: Radical Thinkers in Design

July 2021 • 176 pages 244 x 169mm • 9781350070639 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Series: Radical Thinkers in Design

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August 2021 30 colour illus 176 pages 234 x 156mm 9781350068278 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

November 2021 85 mono illus and 2 x 8pp colour plate sections with 31 colour illus 272 pages 246 x 189mm 9781350061149 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

September 2021 162 colour and mono illus 376 pages 246 x 189mm 9781350027305 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design and Digital Interfaces

Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness Ben Stopher, John Fass, Tobias Revell and Eva Verhoeven

A timely text looking at digital interfaces from the perspective of the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of contemporary designers.

From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life and their influences affect how people live, feel and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives we need to address the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us. Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with. Ben Stopher is Programme Director: Interactive & Visual Communication at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. John Fass is course leader for Information and Interface Design at the London College of Communication, and PhD Researcher at the Royal College of Art, London. Tobias Revell is one of the course leaders for BA Information & Interface Design at the London College of Communication.

Eva Verhoeven is Course Leader of MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication.

Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation Charlotte Ashby

A new study of the Art Nouveau movement, focusing on key themes in aesthetics and culture.

Presenting a new overview of the international movement, responding to developments in research over the past 20 years, Charlotte Ashby explores how Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age and a new means of expression in response to the conditions of modernity. This study presents key themes for understanding the contexts behind Art Nouveau, including new materials and technologies, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the 'modern woman', the rise of the professional designer and the role of the patron-collector. It includes 41 international case studies of artists and designers, buildings, interiors, paintings, graphic arts, glass, ceramics and jewellery. Charlotte Ashby is Programme Director and Associate Lecturer for the Graduate Certificate in the History of Art and Architecture, at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Visiting Lecturer and Acting Programme Director for the MA in History of Design at the University of Oxford, UK.

Color Theory

A Critical Introduction Aaron Fine

A critical and historical introduction to theories of color, explaining the cultural context in which ideas about color have developed, from antiquity to the present day.

Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design. Going beyond a simple recitation of what has historically been said about color, artist and educator Aaron Fine provides an intellectual history, critiquing prevailing Western ideas on the subject and challenging assumptions. He analyses colonialist and gendered attitudes, materialist and romanticist perspectives, spiritualist approaches to color, color in the age of reproduction, and modernist and post-modernist color strategies. Highlighted throughout are examples of the ways in which attitudes towards color have been impacted by the legacy of colonialism and are tied up with race, gender, and class. Aaron Fine is Professor of Art, and Chair, at Truman State University, USA, where he teaches drawing, painting, and history of design – among other topics.