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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Excerpts from Chasing the Perfect by Natalia Ilyin