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...years now to devise military equipment that can be operated with picture symbols. When and if they succeed, another milestone in nondiscrimination will have been passed--the literacy barrier. Try to ignore the preposterous image of an illiterate soldier poking his or her finger at a pretty, multicolored computer graphic to launch our country's most expensive high-tech armaments. Concentrate instead on the whole new class of desperately poor, conveniently patriotic citizens who could then be pronounced fit for service...
...concentrate on seven designers, among them Miyake, the ebulliently inventive Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo, whose designs demonstrate what Koren calls "irony, image juxtaposition and whimsy . . . the purest, most uncompromising and strongest avant-garde vision." The book also includes chapters of careful observation on history and tradition, fabric design, graphic display and body structure (illustrated with vintage photos of women who dive for fish outside a village east of Tokyo). "I make style out of life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos put together almost...
Instead of monumental stone and steel, the design features banners, bunting and balloons fluttering in the wind, lightweight fantasy structures jutting into the sky, odd-shaped cardboard-and-fabric tents sheltering the crowds. What first strikes the eye is the color scheme created by Deborah Sussman, the graphic designer in charge of all the Olympic imagery. Says Sussman: "The palette consists of unexpected, stimulating juxtapositions that instantly separate the Olympic pageantry from the everyday environment, the drabness of permanent institutions, industries, streets-hot magenta, vermilion and chrome yellow, set off by aqua. They are Mediterranean colors but also suggest Mexican...
...idea for a consistent graphic and environmental design came only as an afterthought. Early in 1982, as Architect Jerde, 44, worked on converting the UCLA dormitories into temporary housing for Olympic athletes, he realized that even temporary changes would be highly visible evidence of the Olympic presence. The organizing committee agreed to coordinate this visibility and turned the job over to Jerde's firm, The Jerde Partnership, which specializes in creating an urban ambience for shopping centers and commercial districts. Jerde in turn recruited Designer Sussman, 53, a former art director in the office of Charles and Ray Eames...
Although the dichotomy of psychodrama and mystery thriller splinters its focus and perhaps detracts from the overall effect of the novel. Piercy, at times, achieves quite a bit with both strands. For those who are fans of her candidly graphic powerful poetry, Piercy's newest fiction may be a slight disappointment. But she remains a serious novelist whose passion for the truth about her characters cannot be ignored...