Deconstruction and design (and deconstruction and film, theatre, music, dance, architecture etc.?) - by Ellen Lupton curator at Cooper-Hewitt design museum (The only museum in the U.S. devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design) and Abbott Miller, director of a New York design agency. -- brings together their writings on a wide variety of design-related topics the piece you read for today: an essay on Deconstruction in design history - traces the influence of French critical theory (IDEAS!) in the US and thier relationship to art and design -- especially interested in seeing these ideas in relation to typographical presentation: the art of layout, fonts etc. --
essentially applies cultural theory to the realm of type design.
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