AUTHOR, PRODUCER, ACTIVIST, ENTREPRENEUR, CURATOR AND COLLABORATOR: New Models for Communicating by Steven McCarthy promises to take the reader on a stimulating tour of the many ways that graphic designers have extended their field. Formerly 'hired guns' simply providing a professional service, to now embracing issues of social, cultural, political and economic importance, this book tells the story of how designers currently seek opportunities to meld form and content, and function and meaning in their work.
The book's six chapters - amply-illustrated and energetically designed by Martin Venezky - are devoted to: concept and history; writing, type and text; advocacy and social activism; design for art's sake; entrepreneurism and economy; and community design authorship, to give professionals and design students alike a sense of the possiblities for an expanded definition of design. Explan- atory, analytical, critical and inspirational, THE DESIGNER AS... is essential for inquiring and creative minds.
