Archive for category: ‘Chasing the Perfect’

Posts about Natalia Ilyin’s Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist Design in Our Time

Toronto designers: The most important design book of the decade is now easy to get your hands on    (2013.01.17)

You can now borrow Chasing the Perfect from the library, thanks to me

Patients dying of AIDS soon to live in glass house    (2011.11.07)

Casey House is about to expand its heritage building with an assemblage of see-through glass cuboids. What could possibly go wrong for its clientele, people dying of AIDS?

Muscled men and Modernism    (2011.06.23)

Three guys own a Modernist house together. In Texas

Those who fail to learn the lessons of Natalia Ilyin are doomed to repeat them    (2010.08.22)

Design Is History is the new site that perpetuates the misapprehension that “design history” is a sequence of discrete jumps

Geoff Teehan’s eminent domain    (2010.06.15)

Disagreeable Geoff Teehan plays on your sympathies in his quest to tear down a lovely house, ostensibly for his disabled wife. Don’t be fooled: This is mostly about making Teehan look smart

Title as punchline    (2009.09.13)

When you name your book Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, isn’t that conceding defeat right there? (Is “the field” really where you’re gonna find “theory”?)

‘Chasing the Perfect’    (2007.01.28)

Excerpts from Chasing the Perfect by Natalia Ilyin