My Way, Silex

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Beschrijving

Prachtig geillustreert boek, mooi gebonden, gezeefdrukte cover.

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A diverse collection of accessible yet subversive work by silex, an open-minded assembly of swiss designers.
By: silex
editors: r. Klanten, m. Mischler
release date: november 2000
format: 17 x 22,5 cm
features: 192 pages, design bastien aubry full colour, cardboard with cloth-binding
isbn: 978-3-931126-65-0
more about this book
silex, an open-minded assembly of swiss designers,has quietl revived the spirit of the traditional artists collective. unimpressed by the commercial renaissance of illustration, their intensive weekend workshops serve as a cathartic outlet for their stranger, funnier and darker talents.
My way offers a diverse collection of 12 exercises, based on topics ranging from poetry to nightmare. Here deceptivel simple tasks, reminiscent of primary school exercises like chinese whispers, memory games or free association, achieve unique,improvised results -simultaneous- l accessible and subversive, simple and deepl textured they manage to def and destroy stale design patterns.
While the binding, too, reflects the playful ethos of childhood doodles, my way nevertheless remains strictly structured by its choice of colours and paper. At each and ever perusal the reader will discover new details in this very personal, varied and likeable volume, stirring his own creativit and the irrepressible urge to scribble.