Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writingserious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.

《关于设计的七十九篇短文》汇集了设计师迈克尔-比鲁特最好的批评文章，或严肃或幽默，或谄媚或尖锐，但总是一针见血。比鲁特被广泛认为是当今设计领域最好的观察家。比鲁特的文章涵盖了Twyla Tharp和ITC Garamond等不同的主题，他睿智而平易近人的文字将设计文化拉到了清晰的焦点。他触及经典，如Massimo Vignelli和《麦田里的守望者》的封面，以及新来者，如《McSweeney's Quarterly Concern》和彩色编码的恐怖主义警报等级。一路上，纳巴科夫的《苍火》、埃罗-沙里宁、回形针、佛罗里达州的庆典、土星、ClearRx药瓶和纸质建筑都在他的笔下。他作为设计从业者的经验为他的写作提供了参考，并赋予了它真理。在《关于设计的七十九篇短文》中，设计师和非设计师都可以分享并陶醉于他的洞察力。