{"product_id":"variations-on-a-rectangle-thirty-years-of-graphic-design-from-texas-monthly-to-pentagram-hardback-9781477303627","title":"Variations on a Rectangle; Thirty Years of Graphic Design from Texas Monthly to Pentagram (Hardback) 9781477303627","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVariations on a Rectangle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThirty Years of Graphic Design from Texas Monthly to Pentagram\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDJ Stout (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477303627, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e30.5 x 26.7 x 3 cm, 2.354 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Editorial design is the art of storytelling, and DJ’s brand of it is uniquely American. Western American. It starts out slow and builds. It wins you with a bit of humility (almost ‘shucks-gee-whiz’) and then comes back at you with a surprise punch. The pacing and analogies feel like a Will Rogers narrative. . . . When he first began presenting his work to his London Pentagram partners, they thought he could have just as easily been from the moon. But the storytelling was so strong, so funny, so completely designed but guileless at the same time that the Londoners, and the rest of us, found ourselves confronted with something real, authoritative, and probably definable only as pure American Graphic Design.”\u003cbr\u003e -Paula Scher, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn internationally renowned graphic designer and partner in Pentagram, the world’s most famous graphic design firm, DJ Stout is a fifth-generation Texan whose strong sense of place has inspired his design work for over thirty-five years. His contributions to \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, where he was art director for thirteen years, helped the magazine win three National Magazine Awards. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Photo\u003c\/i\u003e magazine named Stout one of its “100 Most Important People in Photography,” and \u003ci\u003eI.D.\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eInternational Design\u003c\/i\u003e) magazine selected him for “The I.D. Fifty,” its annual listing of design innovators. The Society of Illustrators honored Stout with the national Richard Gangel Art Director Award, and he was made a Fellow of the Austin chapter of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) for his lifetime achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVariations on a Rectangle\u003c\/i\u003e presents both a career retrospective of DJ Stout’s work and his inimitable, often humorous perspectives on publication design. Using nearly eight hundred images to illustrate more than two hundred fifty major design projects, Stout describes the inspiration and creative process behind his highly innovative designs for magazines, books, brochures, posters, and even a fiberglass “batcow.” He tells fascinating, behind-the-scenes stories of Texas personalities such as Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, and Ann Richards, who figured prominently in \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e’s pages, while also discussing how his Texas heritage has influenced his more recent design work US and international clients. An essential primer for younger graphic designers and a revelation for everyone who values exceptional design, \u003ci\u003eVariations on a Rectangle\u003c\/i\u003e proves Stout’s maxim, “A publication without style is just a document, and documents don’t do well on the newsstand. And that’s why you need editorial art directors. Amen.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword. DJ Stout: American Graphic Designer, by Paula Scher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Variations on a Rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Work. 1987–\u003cbr\u003e2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorse Senseless\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dairy Cow Sitting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHanging with Batcow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimal Magnetism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: The Art and Psychology of Illustration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bug Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBird in the Hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreat Legs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDog Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot Animals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgriculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInto the Weeds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: My Favorite Editorial Layout Tricks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWestern Heritage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Ranger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeanwhile, Back at the Ranch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHats Off to a New Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Cowboy Circus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: The Typographic Solution, from A to Z\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast and West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorld’\u003cbr\u003es Best Map\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeighbors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMelodrama in Mexico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot Neighbors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: University and Alumni Publications 101\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEducation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoad Trip Redux\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Mary Wept\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCulture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSissy Fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: Hand-Drawn Type and Other Signs of Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoing Postal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Snapshot in Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBards of West Texas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: I Always Judge a Book by Its Cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerican Beauties\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaying Yes to No\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTruth and Advertising\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSociety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Neuman Effect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: What’\u003cbr\u003es So Funny About Humor?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot-So-Easy Rider\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamilies under Siege\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bad Doctor and the Good Pianist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimer: Mysteries of the Newsstand Cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKKK Encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSports\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cowboys of Summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Thoughts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword. 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