Author: Michael Bierut File Type: pdf Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bieruts 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, Bieruts 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 McSweeneys Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabokovs 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 non-designers alike can share and revel in his insights.ReviewBierut is the most perceptive and wittiest writer about design working today. -- Aaron Betsky, Architect magazine About the AuthorMichael Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnatiris College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990, he was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates in the U.S.A.

Author: David W. Gutzke File Type: pdf This is the first book to examine the cultural phenomenon of the roadhouse in mid 20th-century Britain and its impact on British leisure. The term roadhouse was used in varied ways in the 1930s, from small roadside tearooms to enormous establishments on the outskirts of major cities. These roadhouses were an important component in the transformation of leisure in the 1930s and beyond, reflecting the increased levels of social and physical mobility brought about by new technologies, suburbanisation and the influence of American culture. Roadhouses attracted wealthy Londoners excited by the prospect of a high-speed run into the countryside. During the day, they offered family activities such as tennis, archery, horse riding and swimming. At night, they provided all the fun of the West End with dancing, classy restaurants, cabaret, swimsuit parades and dance demonstrations, subverting the licensing laws to provide all-night drinking. Rumours abounded of prostitution and transgressive behaviour in the car park. Roadhouses formed part of an imaginary America in suburban Britain that was promoted by the popularity of American movies, music and fiction, providing a pastiche of the American country club. While much work has been done on the Soho nightclubs of the 1930s, the roadhouse has been largely ignored. Michael John Law and David Gutzke fill this gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive analysis of the roadhouses cultural meaning, demonstrating how its Americanisation was interpreted for British consumers. This original and engaging study will be fascinating reading for all scholars of 20th-century British cultural history. **Review This is a pioneering and fascinating book on the brief interwar moment in elite leisure. It is a well-conceived and well-researched imaginative definition of a topic that references the wealthy and adventurous Bright Young Things and their fast cars, as well as homosexuality, anti-Semitism, and black jazz musicians who bring back memories of Downton Abbey. * David M. Fahey, Professor Emeritus of History, Miami University, USA. * Motor-cars, society between the wars and ideas from American films came together to produce the English roadhouse, an altogether more exclusive place than the American version, though it always pretended to have a bit of the wickedness of defying Prohibition about it. The Roadhouse Comes to Britain brings together this mixture of frailties in an informed and informative way without losing any of the entertainment value of the story. * Trevor Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto, Canada * The interwar roadhouse has been shamefully neglected by historians, but now it has the scholarly attention it deserves. Both subversive and suburban, the roadhouse offered Americana, alcohol, music, petrol, and sex in the car park. Mellifluous in style and meticulous in detail, The Roadhouse Comes to Britain makes a major contribution to the social history of interwar Britain, and also shines new light into an earlier era of the night-time economy of London. * Mark Clapson, Professor of Social and Urban History, University of Westminster, UK * This interesting and important study adds significantly to the historical and anthropological literature on alcohol and drinking spaces in society. Historians Gutzke (Missouri State Univ.) and Law (Univ. of Westminster, UK) explore the popularity of roadhouses in Britain in the early 20th century. Glorified in Hollywood films and literature, the roadhouse became an iconic symbol of US modernity and popular culture. Spurred by suburbanization and the increasing mobility that accompanied the dawn of automobiles, roadhouses offered urban elites and wealthy suburbanites liminal and clandestine drinking spaces that possessed a complex character of glamour, danger, respectability, notoriety, and sexual dalliance. British high society, especially around London, embraced roadhouses as a symbol of American leisure and transformed them into uniquely British spaces. The authors compare and contrast British and US roadhouses to show the formers transatlantic, Anglo-American character. US bartenders who fled to Britain during Prohibition helped augment the creolized character of these drinking spaces. The British roadhouse was a byproduct of mobility, which changed the meaning of leisure for wealthy Londoners. Roadhouses were so deeply ingrained in the romantic imagination of British high society during the interwar years that they helped define a generation. Summing Up Highly recommended. All levelslibraries. * CHOICE * About the Author Michael John Law is Research Fellow in History at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of The Experience of Suburban Modernity How Private Transport Changed Interwar London (2014). David W. Gutzke is Professor of History at Missouri State University, USA. His most recently authored book is Women Drinking Out in Britain since the Early 20th Century (2014).

Author: David La Vere File Type: pdf At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men, women, and children, and took about 40 captives. So began the Tuscarora War, North Carolinas bloodiest colonial war and surely one of its most brutal. In his gripping account, David La Vere examines the war through the lens of key players in the conflict, reveals the events that led to it, and traces its far-reaching consequences.La Vere details the innovative fortifications produced by the Tuscaroras, chronicles the colonys new practice of enslaving all captives and selling them out of country, and shows how both sides drew support from forces far outside the colonys borders. In these ways and others, La Vere concludes, this merciless war pointed a new direction in the development of the future state of North Carolina.

Author: Neil Smith File Type: pdf