Experimental Jetset's Design Lecture at the Walker Art Center in 2009, is in my opinion a lecture that you must see. The insights and referebces they show are pure and sometimes very personal. The concepts they show are meaningful and powerful in a simpel way. They keep on resonating and stay timeless (in my opinion).
This talk is now almost 18 years old and there work has evolved but lives still in the same spirit. This all shows that having a good and simpel work ethic, ore in there case a manifesto, is realy effective.
"This book is about ordinary graphic problems and how the problems themselves can lead to surprising, original graphic solutions. Provided the designer is prepared to let go of any preconceptions about how design is supposed to look", Bob Gill.
Ed Fella: A Life in Images,Ed Fella, Editor: David Cabianca, Visual Essay: Ed Fella with Andrea Fella Unit Editions, London, 2021.
Ed Fella: A Life in Images (Unit Editions), celebrates the life and work of a great designer, artist and educator.
The book’s beating heart is a 316-page visual essay that contains uncaptioned selections from 60 years of work – flyers, posters, original sketches, drawings, photographs and collages. It divides almost equally between what Fella calls his ‘two careers’: first, his 30 years as a commercial artist in Detroit; second, his life as an ‘exit-level’ designer, teaching at CalArts in Santa Clarita, California, where he still has a studio. The visual essay was sequenced and art directed by Ed Fella with his daughter Andrea Fella, who contributes an afterword about their work in his big archive.
In a digital age, Fella remains fully committed to the power of the hand-drawn and at 84 he is still pushing boundaries, living a life outside the lines, freed from the tyranny of the grid.
Hardcore Architecture, Marc Fischer, Published by Public Collectors, 2019
Hardcore Architecture explores the relationship between the architecture of living spaces and the history of underground American hardcore bands in the 1980s. Band addresses are discovered using contact listings found in demo tape and record reviews published from 1982-89 in the fanzine MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL (MRR). Google Street View is used to capture photos of the homes.
Since 2007, Public Collectors has been an ongoing initiative, founded by Chicago-based artist Marc Fischer (a member of Temporary Services). Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public. (https://halfletterpress.com/brands/Public-Collectors.html)
If you could recommend anything relevant to graphic design, what would it be?
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