“His designs are transparant, leaving room to breathe. Them letters got things to say, they are so clear it tickles your eye and make you blink. What is this colourful craft? Letman’s letters are curious. His handmade style fits the boundries of typography like a universe on itself by lashing out to illustration, grafitti and graphic design.” - Letman
This has kept me busy on the subway over the past few weeks. It is an easy read, with alot of inspiring work and words from top designers from the early 70s to 2001. It does a great job of showing a logical progression from early designers like Wolgang Weingart to some of the modern day designers and the role technology has played in this progression. Poyner also clears up some of the often misunderstandings of Postmodernism and Deconstruction.Defiantly worth checking out. It’s defiantly a book you will look back to in the future.
I can’t get enough of it
Normally I am against the use of graffiti or street art by corporations just to sell products, but i do like what Mountain Dew has done here with their Green Label Art Campaign. The can is more of a work of art than a bad marketing scheme.
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