Saturday, September 13, 2008

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]

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