TY - GEN AU - Rand, Paul TI - Designer's Art SN - 9781616894863 U1 - 741.60924 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Princeton Architectural Press KW - DES KW - Commercial art KW - Design KW - Rand, Paul, -- 1914-1996 -- Critique et interprétation N1 - Art for art's sake -- The beautiful and the useful -- The designer's problem -- The symbol in visual communication -- Versatility of the symbol -- The trademark -- Seeing stripes -- Imagination and the image -- Integrating form and content -- Ideas about ideas -- The meaning of repetition -- The role of humor -- The rebus and the visual pun -- Collage and montage -- Yesterday and today -- Typographic form and expression -- About legibility -- The good old "neue typografie" -- Design and the play instinct -- Black black black -- The art of the package: tomorrow and yesterday -- The third dimension -- The complexity of color -- Word pictures -- The lesson of Cézanne -- Politics of design -- Integrity and invention N2 - Paul Rand was one of the world's leading graphic designers. Here he describes his work with the same precision, economy and passion that he displays in his graphic designs, seeking to help us to understand the nature of his relationships with his clients, his audience and his art ER -