Last night saw the opening of Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years of Graphic Work and Play, a touring exhibition making its latest pit-stop at Manchester’s Cube gallery (only £4 entry, get some cheap flights, or train tickets, immense amount of inspiration, well worth it).
Talking to Alan Fletcher at Pentagram, Peter Saville said.
“One day I saw him crouched over a piece of paper with a paintbrush. Trying to ignore typesetting, he was putting down a message onto the paper in his handwriting. I stood over him and asked ‘Alan, can you remember typefaces? Or are you too old now?’, to which Alan smiled and replied: ‘Yes, I remember them, they’re a crutch for designers like you.’”
piece of work with a little sketch by fletcher read:
“the sun always shines
its our fault if we dont think so!” (…handwritten of course).
Described as 'the best ever graphic designer' by the observer and 'one of the giants of 20th century design' by the guardian (both newspapers in UK, if unknown).
Excellent show (GO see! took 2 years to get it up-north at cube) me leant over with the bag and friend/tutor (many thanks too for informing and inviting me to the show, we should cash-in on those model releases for that drink hey... even after he just got peter drinking it ;o) ). Many thanks to peter saville for indulging me by signing my Communicate: independent british graphic design since the sixties, book. shame was too packed to have a chat with him, but for me a graphic designer, wow. dont meet many that well known.
factory records, joy division, new order, how to design without losing your soul in creative review article.
The Art of Looking sideways by Alan Fletcher is a must read for any creative, not just graphic designers. in the foreground of this pic was a glimpse of the volume thats in the book as he compiled it.
I finally got out to a gallery, only decided to go tues 19th, i think it was. very good!
fletcher, forbes & gill + theo crosby (good work also). loved some of the letter head examples, especially the cut off edge-of-paper silhouette shaped like a face.
22 January—03 April 2010
Cube Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DW www.cube.org.uk
Photograph by Mat Thornton (nice guy, if it was who we chat too). check out the Corner House restaurant not far, i think it was, nice soup, i know, extravagant! photos from here: http://www.grafikmag.com/index.php?m=GR&sub=GRdetail&id=238
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