Mon, 03 Oct 2005
Geek Chic
Neil Feineman, Geek Chic, Thames and Hudson
While the words "Geek" and "Chic" might at first thought
have some difficulty inhabiting the same sentence, the author
would have it that this geek thing is now everywhere, and it
is, dare we say it, cool.
The geek world has always been inclusive but it was never a
matter of just wearing the wrong fashions. The substance of
the thing has to do with real learning and sometimes badly
executed enthusiasm which might well be totally impervious
to the disinterest of those surrounding.
This book isn't about clothes fashion. It consists of a whole
bunch of paragraphs in a tiny font which are joined by arrow
paths to a timeline. The paragraphs deal
with books, music, people, some hardware, and some
scientific principles and who brought them to us.
Such an approach is necessarily simplistic at times but it
is successful in the way it is supposed to be: to present
a list of things in a graphically interesting way that is fun.
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