Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha
Language: Japanese / English
Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 22.4 cm
Release Date: 2001
Price: sold
The dust jacket has some very light age-related foxing, but the book itself remains in excellent condition for its age, with only a very small crease to the upper outer corner of a few pages.
The fluorescent yellow cover edition of IDEA Alternative DESIGN X is Part 2, while this fluorescent orange edition is Part 1, and the contents differ.
I would strongly recommend this to those who already own Part 2.
With the advent of early desktop publishing on the Apple Macintosh, graphic designers of the 1990s pushed into new expressive territories—experimenting, struggling, and searching for an unfamiliar visual language shaped by emerging digital tools.
This volume, published in 2000 as a special extra issue of IDEA, spotlights the work of Jonathan Barnbrook, David Carson, Cyan, Delta, Mevis en van Deursen, The Designers Republic, Tomato, Why Not Associates, as well as influential Japanese designers who contributed to this pioneering digital moment.
Capturing a period in which digital technology fundamentally transformed the design process, the book offers a systematic overview of the era’s defining studios and their practice. Today, it stands as a scarce and indispensable document of the early digital design avant-garde.
Featured Designers
Jonathan Barnbrook
Buro Destruct
David Carson
Cyan
Delta
Dylan Kendle
Farrow Design
Imaginary Forces
Me Company
Mevis & Van Deursen
Stefan Sagmeista
Swifty
The Designers Republic
Tomato
Why Not Associates
as well as several Japanese design studios