'To describe a problem is part of the solution. With many examples from the worlds of graphic and product design, music, architecture, and art, it inspires the reader to seize on the material, develop it further, and integrate it into his or her own work. The book is especially topical and exciting in the context of current developments in computational design, which seem to hold out the possibility of programmed design. What it does not purvey is cut-and-dried, true-or-false solutions or absolutes of any kind - instead, it develops fundamental principles in an innovative and future-oriented way. The intellectual models it proposes, however, continue to be useful today. Instead of set recipes, the method suggests a model for design in the early days of the computer era. In these essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design methodology.

A detailed analysis of Gerstner's design methodolgies including: Programme as typeface, Programme as typography, Programme as picture and Programme as method. Gerstner's most important work includes: four essays and an introduction by Gerstner with an introduction to the introduction by Paul Gredinger. The design of the book is traditional Swiss Modern - immaculately typeset and laid out on a consistent 2-column grid, a single type family set with a minimum of scale and weight changes. INSCRIBED by Gerstner on front free endpaper: “my respect / for coming / coursework programs: / K G.” Gerstner has also added the word Sorry! tot he front panel of the dust jacket to obviate an apparent mild coffee spill.ħ.25 x 10 hardcover book with 112 pages illustrated in black and white and color. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

A couple of coin sized liquid spots to front jacket panel, with a Gerstner inked notation: Sorry! How cool is that? Small short closed tear on front bottom edge. Dust jacket lightly worn with a darkened spine. Black and white and color illustrations throughout.

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