It sounds mad in this day and age but only a handful of people get to work with for a master. On Tuesday night at the the EDO event in London Fernando Gutiérrez talked about his time with Tibor Kalman and the legendary pictures only issue of Colors magazine. I actually heard someone behind me gasp when a few of the pages came up. It was obviously news to him in away to many of us it, and Kalman, are part of art and design folklore.
This is a the written version of a talk I gave at UX Camp Brighton 2014… I would imagine it differs greatly from what I actually said.
Brand space has never been more accessible.
Consumers’ time has never been more scarce.
What does this mean for the way we work?
“Technical equipment enabled me to realise my world of signs”
Sitting in the Museum Fur Gestalt, Zurich, watching footage of pre-eminent typographer Wolfgang Weingart in his archives it was hard not to be moved. A man sits surrounded by his life’s work telling the stories of how each artefact came to life.
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