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Archive: April 2006
When Design is a Matter of Life or Death
Poster for Citicorp Center, Dan Friedman for Anspach Grossman Portugal, 1975
You've taken on a design challenge and come up with a solution that's been widely admired and won you accolades. But a year or so later, you realize you made a mistake. There's something horribly wrong with your design. And it's not just something cosmetic — a badly resolved corner, some misspaced type — but a fundamental flaw that will almost certainly lead to catastrophic failure...
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Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati, and has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1990. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art.Recent Video
Designing, Writing, Teaching: Not My Real Job
Michael Bierut gives an outline of his life and work: a video for a D-Crit lecture at SVA in NYC.Recent Book
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
Michael Bierut
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
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