- Gebundene Ausgabe: 159 Seiten
- Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press; Auflage: 1 (31. Juli 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1568983387
- ISBN-13: 978-1568983387
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,1 x 19,8 x 2,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 369.474 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This thoroughly unusual book by designer and critic Helfand will delight graphic, information, and book designers. It will equally fascinate those interested in intellectual history, history of technology, and popular culture. Helfand begins with an essay that interweaves the history of wheel charts with humanity's fascination with the circle. The earliest volvelles (graduated movable paper circles-within-circles), as they are also called, are found in Renaissance astronomy texts. They offer data on celestial cycles, movements of the heavenly bodies, and the tides. Illustrations of these early texts are beautifully reproduced here. Other volvelles, such as the planisphere, a kind of manual computer used to reveal the portion of the night sky visible from a particular spot on earth, are discussed. The 20th century saw a mass audience develop for volvelles, representing an enormous range of topics from astronomy to American history to zoology, and the major portion of this book is devoted to full-page illustrations of these. Readers interested in information design will seek this out, while those interested in book and graphic design will be thrilled by the surprise. Includes footnotes and bibliography. For large libraries. Michael Dashkin, PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kurzbeschreibung
As inventive as instructive, information wheels - or volvelles -have been used since the 14th century to measure, record, predict and calculate everything from time and space to military history and recipes. In this work, designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers an in-depth look at these artefacts, which are not only clever and amusing -where else could you dial-in ingredients to concoct "Creamed Oysters and Celery" - but, Helfand argues, relevant as a model for modern interactive design. From circular mathematical slide rules to Captain Marvel phonetic decoders; from nuclear bomb blast calculators to gestational breeding planners; and from astronomical planispheres to presidential trivia plotters, this volume demonstrates the range and utility of these ingenious interactive tools.
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Viva volvelles
2. Juli 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Jessica Helfand's Reinventing the Wheel is my favorite kind of design book: one part lookie-L@@K-pritty-pictures, the other part explaining what it all means. The book is about information wheels -- alternatively called wheel charts, wheel calculators, or volvelles.
Folks my age might remember the circular BAC (blood alcohol content) calculators distributed every three months or so in junior high and high school...spin the wheel to your weight and a certain number of drinks and it calculated how drunk you were. Fat lot of good that did me; I could have done with something a little more useful such as a wheel calculator that determined your attractiveness to girls based on GPA and where your mom bought your clothes ("3.9 and K-Mart? Not looking good...").
The BAC and Unfashionable Teen Boy calculators aren't featured in the book, but many other wheels are, including several from the 30s and 40s. My favorites are the Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer (for its complexity), the DeKalb Hybrids "What Your Corn Can Do to Help Win the War" wheel, the Wonder Bread Guide to U.S. Warships, the U.S. Navy Semaphore Signaling Guide (this one is really ingenious), and the colorful hand-made "Cercle Chromatique", and the surreal Puzzle Pets Letter Wheels.
Helfand has done a really nice job with this fun book. Definitely recommended.
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Helfand's book is a gem
15. September 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
More than a simple collection of ephemera, Helfand's book is as generous as it is specific. Her thesis is that the simple form of the circle - or two joined circles (a "wheel") - literally turns all it touches. Unlike boxy, "windows" environments, circular logic spirals and spins out into webs and whorls, mapping and envisioning the world itself. Her introductory essay deals with moveable circular diagrams before the turn-of-the-century, specifically in astronomy, mathematics, and navigation. A gorgeous color plates section shows over 100 twentieth-century wheels at work. Her final thesis turns to the nature of the wheel in modern art, music, philosophy, and design. Aimed at a wide array of readers, Helfand manages to find a voice for them all: "Reinventing the Wheel" will be a welcome and unusual addition to bookshelves of designers, collectors, and the curious alike.
15 von 21 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Graphically outstanding. Text is academic, dull and ill-formed.
4. Januar 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Jessica Helfland appears caught here between her inner love of collecting trivia, and her academic role: and while the graphics put on display her remarkable collection of wheels and volvelles her text unfortunately veers toward academic pontificating of the worst order as she uses her collection in an attempt to ruminate on how we see life, and how linearity as in the design and format of books (left-to-right, one page after another) is confining compared to the multidimensional viewpoint afforded by circles. Helfand's writing is rigidly locked into the very paradigm she criticises, and in the end her more human Foreword is by far the most interesting text in this handsome hard back volume.
Handsome? Graphically, this is an outstanding book - well-designed, beautifully typeset, graphics gorgeously reproducing the collection of wheels, even the paper seems especially chosen - but I found Helfand's logic and her weak arguments quite frustrating. It reads like the first draft of a thesis - before the student's overseeing Professor has had a real go at the author. ("Come on - you've made a leap in logic here!")
So this is one book where the pictures can do all the talking. The text and the often redundant captions (they describe what we can already see, thank you) is frankly superfluous.
Handsome? Graphically, this is an outstanding book - well-designed, beautifully typeset, graphics gorgeously reproducing the collection of wheels, even the paper seems especially chosen - but I found Helfand's logic and her weak arguments quite frustrating. It reads like the first draft of a thesis - before the student's overseeing Professor has had a real go at the author. ("Come on - you've made a leap in logic here!")
So this is one book where the pictures can do all the talking. The text and the often redundant captions (they describe what we can already see, thank you) is frankly superfluous.
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