Another batch of fertilizer. That’s not a euphemism by the way, just a reminder that ideas grow from ideas, they rarely appear out of the blue. I sometimes hear people say ‘I’m all about tomorrow, I never look back…I’m like an arrow heading towards the future’. It sounds bloody exciting. Then I look at their output, and it often feels so…so, soul-less gimmicky…nothingy. Like it or not, the truth is that jobs, like most jobs, are less about inventing thanRead more
Posts tagged: #Green Books
GREEN BOOKS: Type 2.
The feedback I’ve had on these books is very consistent; ‘I had most of that stuff in my scrap books too’. What a world? Art directors from it’s four corners saving exactly the same references from exactly the same dozen or so sources* in order to help create them something different. Today there is no reason art directors should be fishing in the same pool. (*Interview, Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar, Lurzer’s Archive, Rolling Stone, Creative Review, Direction, Beach Culture, RayRead more
GREEN BOOKS: Type 1.
It occurs to me that ‘Type’ is the wrong title for a lot of these green books, ‘The Fred & Fabien Files’ would be more appropriate given the amount of work by Woodward and Baron.Read more
GRREN BOOKS: Photography 1.
Another green scrapbook. This was what was floating my photography boat in the mid-nineties.Read more