Product Description: I had this idea of where I should be in middle age, an image that had been born in the 1950s when I’d been a child watching Lassie on TV. As outdated as it was, that blurred snapshot somewhere at the back of my mind actually did have a green lawn, a house, a picket fence, and two kids: a boy and a girl...read more

Product Description: Holiday celebrations in the United States are a major force driving the nation's approximately $3 trillion retail economy. The commercial culture of holidays extends from the traditional -- decorations, costumes, and cards -- to the immaterial and ephemeral -- phone calls, airline tickets, and department store bills...read more

Product Description: Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lightly Used Out of Print Softcover Edition published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT., 1993, 260 pages (illustrated) in Very Good Condition. Cover has slight shelf-wear, minor scuffing. Text is clean and unmarked with no rips, tears, creases or loose pages...read more