Design dialogues / [interviews conducted and edited by] Steven Heller and Elinor Pettit.

Includes index.

Introduction: Steven Heller on Design Dialogues -- Massimo Vignelli on Rational Design -- Paul Rand on the Play Instinct -- Stephen Doyle on Humor in Design -- Jonathan Barnbrook on Experimentation -- Jonathan Hoefler on Type Design -- Michael Ian Kaye on Book Jackets -- Dana Arnett on Design and Film -- Chris Pullman on Design for Television -- Jose Conde on Design in Japan -- Nicholas Callaway on Book Packaging -- George Lois on Advertising -- Philip Meggs on Graphic Design History -- Rick Prelinger on History as Commodity -- Dan Solo on Antique Type -- Rick Poynor on Design Journalism -- Ellen Lupton on Curating Design -- Katherine McCoy on Design Education -- Johanna Drucker on Design Theory -- Ivan Chermayeff on Modernism Past and Present -- Milton Glaser on Professionalism, Education, Celebrity, and Criticism -- Michael Bierut on Design Criticism -- Sue Coe on Art and Politics -- Stuart Ewen on Public Relations and Spin -- Ralph Ginzburg on the Perils of Publishing -- Tibor Kalman on Social Responsibility -- Richard Saul Wurman on Information Architecture -- Michael Ray Charles on Racial Stereotypes -- Morris Wyszogrod on a Designer in Captivity -- Jules Feiffer on Children's Books -- Rodney Alan Greenblat on the Candy-Colored Cartooniverse -- David Vogler on Web Design for Kids -- Edwin Schlossberg on Interactive Environments -- Robert Greenberg on Technology and Design -- John Plunkett on the Wired World.