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With suites of images representing more than two hundred fifty major design projects, Variations on a Rectangle is a career retrospective and design primer by internationally renowned graphic designer and Pentagram partner DJ Stout.
List of contents
- Foreword. DJ Stout: American Graphic Designer, by Paula Scher
- Introduction. Variations on a Rectangle
- The Work. 1987–2015
- Animals
- Horse Senseless
- A Dairy Cow Sitting
- Hanging with Batcow
- Animal Magnetism
- Primer: The Art and Psychology of Illustration
- The Bug Man
- Bird in the Hand
- Great Legs
- Dog Days
- Not Animals
- Agriculture
- Into the Weeds
- Primer: My Favorite Editorial Layout Tricks
- Western Heritage
- One Ranger
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
- Hats Off to a New Park
- A Cowboy Circus
- Water
- Primer: The Typographic Solution, from A to Z
- Land
- East and West
- World’s Best Map
- Neighbors
- Melodrama in Mexico
- Not Neighbors
- Primer: University and Alumni Publications 101
- Education
- Community
- Road Trip Redux
- When Mary Wept
- Culture
- Sissy Fit
- Primer: Hand-Drawn Type and Other Signs of Life
- Going Postal
- A Snapshot in Time
- Bards of West Texas
- Primer: I Always Judge a Book by Its Cover
- American Beauties
- Saying Yes to No
- Truth and Advertising
- Society
- The Neuman Effect
- Primer: What’s So Funny About Humor?
- Not-So-Easy Rider
- Families under Siege
- The Bad Doctor and the Good Pianist
- Primer: Mysteries of the Newsstand Cover
- KKK Encounters
- Sports
- The Cowboys of Summer
- Last Thoughts
- Afterword. That Designer Down in Texas
- Acknowledgments. With Gratitude
About the author
DJ Stout was the art director of
Texas Monthly between 1987 and 1999, and he has been a partner in Pentagram’s Austin office since 2000. He is the author and designer of
The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Alpine Cowboys Baseball Club: An Illustrated History of the Best Little Semipro Baseball Team in Texas.
Summary
With suites of images representing more than two hundred fifty major design projects, Variations on a Rectangle is a career retrospective and design primer by internationally renowned graphic designer and Pentagram partner DJ Stout.
