- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Laurence King (29 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856694895
- ISBN-13: 978-1856694896
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A collection of essays about visual culture, including brands, billboards, magazines, architecture, tattoos and trends in cosmetic surgery. A key target is the pervasiveness of sexual imagery in the market place and the medias symbiotic relationship with porn. Shows how commerce exploits the blurring of art and advertising, and paints a vivid, not always comfortable picture of where 21st century design culture is heading.
About the Author
Rick Poynor was founding editor of Eye magazine. He writes columns for Eye and Print, and has covered design, media and visual culture for Blueprint, Frieze, Icon, I.D., Metropolis, Adbusters, the Guardian and the Financial Times. His books include Typographica, and Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, published by Laurence King, and two previous essay collections, Design Without Boundaries and Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World.
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Early in the 1990s, I was contacted by a Japanese magazine seeking nominations from design people for a word or concept that would, according to their crystal balls, 'define the coming decade'. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Early in the 1990s, I was contacted by a Japanese magazine seeking nominations from design people for a word or concept that would, according to their crystal balls, 'define the coming decade'. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I used this book on an essay I was writing about advertising sex toys called 'Practice safe sex go FCUK yourself', and it was extremely useful and enlightening. The book delves into less thought about areas and would be really useful for anyone exloring the relationship between, art, sex and mass media. The writing has a good flow and isn't too dense and though it is from America is it not 'American writing'. Really enjoyed it, would read it again for a general read. Buy it.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
understanding designing pornotopia
15 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
this review is largely in answer to the previous reviewer's review - john d. i think context is important with this book. rick poynor is a design critic for eye magazine, and this book is an anthology of his essays over the last three to four years. while i agree that there is not much "depth" to each essay, i think that, taken as a collection, poynor's writing provides a great STARTING POINT for further criticism, analysis, or study. he's noting a trend within visual culture. not to be taken as anything too scholarly, he comments on the trends as concisely as possible for magazine format. so for all design students, design geeks, culture geeks, this book is by no means going to illuminate everything about pornotopia for you, but it will plant seeds which you can either nourish or ignore.
buy it, it's interesting.
buy it, it's interesting.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Is that an idea under there, or are you just happy to see me?
15 Nov 2006
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I like to take chances on books, and this is one of them. I hope someone else comes along to write something really insightful and postive about this book, 'cause I'm not. "...concise, riveting prose" Maybe for lack of ideas. "truly indispensable addition" Maybe if you're a dunderhead that thinks life has changed a little since Madonna turned oour entire world upside down--uh, almost--with her shocking self-expose' of a coffee table book. Sorry, I find that many of these essays meander far from the sexy pitch. I was hoping Rem Koolhaus would fill me in on why his quirky boxes should be getting me all hot and bothered, but mostly I learned he has an elusive and dark presence in your company. And then I frittered away a few more mornings with the usual claptrap of dingy magazines that make something of sexual toys beyond their ostensible function, and designer rehash of Pop strategies. OK, there are some essays here that relate to the title. But for the most, I find the author "not on task." Appropriately, I got all excited by the titilating come-on, but in my dull straight world, the dish is a guy. I deflate.
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