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Magazine report 2

Magazine Report = Japan Access

Computer Arts

Event Design

Real Estate Floorplans

Corporate Design

Website Design

Babel

Tokyo in the Arts

Random Designs

This is graphic design whose makers come to their work with varying degrees of attention to principles or lessons tried, true and, relatively speaking, old. But across the board, they come to it with irrepressible excitement about their ongoing adventure in a fast-evolving field. [...] With audacity and aplomb, they declare: "Never shackled by the past. Not content with the present. Making room for the future."
A host of novel design ideas--some spontaneous and impulsive, some poetic or amusing, and still others studious and purposeful--take visible shape in the wideranging, pace-setting selections of works from the portfolios of the London-based designers that have been brought together here. To examine them is to savor, in a singular form, something of the remarkable energy and creative spirit that are part of their very special city's enduring allure. [Edward M. Gomez, New Design London, The edge of graphic design, Rockport Publishers 2001]

nomatterwhat4am

tokyogrifter

Website Design 2

Design

Bookstores are perfect to get inspired. Sometimes, you find treasures like this for almost no money at all. Talking about real DESIGN ... the real professionals ... not about some fancy

bullshit

that some art directors in Munich think will get them paid their next Porsche Cheyenne, or the pink version for their wives (who they betray anyway with some slut from P1). You can't buy creativity, and you can't develope it in Munich, either. These pictures are from designers from Los Angeles and other parts of the US. Greetings ... you have my full respect.

"[...] aggressively unconventional layouts created by the pop-cultur magazine Raygun's former but lastingly influential art director David Carson. Such work has been revered by post-modernist aesthetes who have relished its way of giving concrete expression, in a deconstructionist mode, to the other merely conceptual, unexpected, formula-busting possibilities of what a printed page can be. It has also ben derided as chaotic an decadent, or self-indulgent and irresponsible, not not mention downright illegible.
'I basically feel like I'm painting with type and images,' Carson has said of his efforts to visually convey the emotion of a text [...]"

[from Gomez, Edward M. (2001): new design. Los Angeles. the edge of graphic design. Rockfort Publishing, Massachusetts 2001.]