Alan Fletcher war eine führende Persönlichkeit im Grafikdesign, bekannt für seinen raffinierten Stil und seinen beständigen Witz. Sein innovativer Ansatz beeinflusste das Feld maßgeblich und schuf ein Erbe, das Designer bis heute inspiriert. Fletcher's Arbeit wird für ihre visuelle Intelligenz und ihre nachhaltige Wirkung auf die Designlandschaft gefeiert.
Follow-up volume to the best-selling The Art of Looking Sideways, Picturing and Poeting is the latest collection of mind-bending images and creative wordplay from Alan Fletcher, one of the most internationally influential figures in graphic design.
Surveying thirty-five years of Alan Fletcher's work, this book is an essay upon the design process as undertaken by a tireless and gifted individual. The thinking behind his solutions and methods are illustrated by a range of examples each accompanied by a full commentary from Jeremy Myerson.
A primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, trivia, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the limitless resources of the human mind.