This is just an idle musing. Feel free to ignore it. BUT … what I love about graphic design is that anything you put on paper or screen or brick or mortar—letters, shapes, patterns, scratches, shades—is design if you want it to be. And if you make it curious, pleasing or nice enough it will be taken seriously. I also love that things that are done almost by accident can be revived decades later as styles. These postmodern, new wave, neo-abstract forms were from the ’40s—and then in the ’80s they were stylistic, and now they’re high design. I love that. Don’t you?
Support PRINT.
The experts who write for PRINT magazine cover the why of design—why the world of design looks the way it does, how it has evolved, and why the way it looks matters. Subscribe to PRINT today, and get in on the conversation of what the brightest minds in the field are talking about right now—essential insight that every designer should know to get ahead.
Treat yourself and your team to a year of PRINT for $40—which includes the massive Regional Design Awards issue ($30 on newsstands).
