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.]
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