Alan Fletcher DM
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- Baskerville
I finally made it to the alan fletcher exhibition at the Design Museum yesterday and I have to say, I left incredibly inspired.
It was so great to see a lifetime's work. Such witty, happy positive design. Not concerned with style, yet incredible to look at, everthing so welll conceived and thought through.
What was most inspiring to see was how, even for jobs that most would class as uninteresting, he still found something refreshing and new to base his design on.
The work he did for the Zinc& Lead company proves that approach.
I also love the fountain in the shape of Einstein's profile he designed for Novartis.
Even his student sketches were great.
How sad then that when you search google images for images of alan fletcher, you get predominantly images of the guy who plays Karl in Neighbours:
- rasko40
I have to say, I took a dislike to the man, and felt there was far too much superfluous crap like letterheads and invoices from 1962.
My fave stuff was the little animals, the pencils and the random drawer stuff.
- vespa0
i don't know if i like all of his design work but that book, "the art of looking sideways" is one of my favourite books ever. i love the way he thinks. thought. :(
- _salisae_0
i would have enjoyed it a lot more had i not be entirely wired on some meth grade coffee. got some great shots though.
- mpfree0
always liked Alan. he was definitely the driving force style-wise in that band