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His angle was The End. A rollicking disquisition on Minimalism’s debt to science fiction, B-movies, and the second law of thermodynamics, Robert Smithson’s Artforum debut, “Entropy and the New Monuments,” linked the so-called primary structures of artists such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Sol Dewitt to entropy, that universal force of decay, which erodes everything into an all-engulfing sameness. “Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future,” Smithson wrote. Cynical, sure, but his essay glimmers wit...

The 2022 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers this year have 106 finalists and 39 subject category winners.

The contributions and relevance of a pioneering 20th century information designer is the focus of a new publication by RIT Press. Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design, by R. Roger Remington and Sheila Pontis, offers contemporary designers, educators, and students a master class in Burtin’s design philosophy.

With more than 20 years of experience in the design field, he was well versed in scientific, industrial, economic, geographic and social topics. These qualities made Burtin a strong candidate, not unnoticed by Fortune’s managers. In 1945, Fortune approached the military to ask that Burtin be released from his service commitment to serve “the national interest” in a different

The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media Great examples of photography and editorial design abound at the Jewish Museum. (Catch the catalog, too.) The Vogue cover of March 15, 1945, features a blurred model behind a frosted glass panel emblazoned with a red cross, photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld and art-directed by Alexander Liberman. It is “scary and sad to think that no mainstream fashion title would now publish a cover this bold,” our critic says.Credit...Erwin Blumenfeld, via Condé Nast April 29, 2021 In a city whose news kiosks have become glorified chewing gum emporiums, whe...