By its Cover

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Architecture.; Graphic design.; Architecture / Design.; Graphic Design.

i JUDGING THE BOOK Books are a thing of beauty,but so are horse-drawn carriages. 1 DICK BRASS Vice President of Technology Development, Microsoft Is the printed book destined for eventual extinction? Is the thoughtfully designed book cover approaching obsolescence? The availability of ebooks has ind...

Table of Contents:

• A Union of Function and form
• Americanizing Utopia
• Modernism and Beyond
• The Bland Breeding the Bland
• The Pillaged, Parodied, and Profound
• Redefine and Redesign.