Designing Pornotopia: Travels in visual culture | Rick Poynor

Designing Pornotopia: Travels in visual culture
By Rick Poynor
Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

brandchannel.com says: The author’s description of a window display as a “randomly organized tableaux of disparate things” would serve as a better title for this book. Yes, it touches on porn (encroaching our lives, mixed with consumerism, capitalistic, nihilistic, atavistic), but it also riffs on the inanity of Saatchi’s lovemarks hype and cynicism in advertising (an ad for Channel 4 programming). When Poyner is not contemplating the role of urban gardening on our visual psyches, he invites the reader to consider what effect our interaction with sexual imagery and innuendo has on young minds and whether the cumulative effect will be a collective turn off. The tone is more blog rant than rigorous essay. (RR, Aug-06)


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