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Books by Leslie Atzmon

Design and Science Catalogue, 2019

Papers by Leslie Atzmon

Bloomsbury Visual Arts eBooks, 2023

The Experimental Book Object

xv, 218 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm

In this dissertation, I argue that the fantasy imagery of tum-of-the-century British illustrators... more In this dissertation, I argue that the fantasy imagery of tum-of-the-century British illustrators Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sidney Sime, and French filmmakers Georges Melies and Emile Cohl functions as visual rhetorical "texts" that explicate contemporaneous ideas about the self. At the fin de siecle, models of the self were shaped, in part, by scientific thought that interrogated themes of materiality and immateriality, visibility and invisibility, univalence and multivalence, permanence and impermanence. Dream Work grapples with these oppositions, the questions they brought up, and the provisional answers they elicited. I argue that both the science and the design considered in this study dealt with these oppositions, and the models of the self they elaborated, through a shared visual rhetoric of literal representation or hazy abstraction. I reveal this shared visual rhetoric through analysis of the form of the design considered in this study and its relation...

The Graphic Design Reader is a co-edited book of original and commissioned essays from 1920 to pr... more The Graphic Design Reader is a co-edited book of original and commissioned essays from 1920 to present that provide a critical platform for understanding and interpreting graphic design practice. The book brings together writings from key international design and cultural critics, including Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, Victor Margolin, Rick Poynor and Adrian Shaughnessy; seminal writings from history such as those by W.A. Dwiggins, William Morris, and Beatrice Warde; and, newly commissioned works including those from Mohor Ray, Joanna Choukeir, Michele Champagne, and Arne Scheuermann - representing the rich and varied voices of graphic design writing. The co-editors take as their starting point, an exploration of the ways in which theory and practice, canons and anti-canons have operated within the discipline. Extracts are structured into thematic sections addressing graphic design history; education and the profession; type and typography; critical writing and practice; political a...

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... Laura is tempted and succumbs, but ultimately is rescued by Lizzie. ... Page 16. Design Issue... more ... Laura is tempted and succumbs, but ultimately is rescued by Lizzie. ... Page 16. Design Issues: Volume 18, Number 4 Autumn 2002 79 Figure 17 “The Rhine-Maidens obtain possession of the ring and bear it off in triumph” from Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. ...

Communication Design, 2015

Design Issues, 2002

Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies [=ICDHS 2012 - 8th Conference of the International Committee for Design History & Design Studies], 2014