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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
There are few graphic design opportunities more receptive to experimentation
than exhibition catalogs. The nexus of art and design is fertile ground for
license in form and content. When the artist is the designer, anything is
possible. But when the designer interprets an artist's ideas, the fusion of two
or more talents working in concert for a common cause can trigger convention-
defying work. The saying “expect the unexpected” is in full force.
CYAN's design scheme for Olafur Eliasson's
The Blind Pavilion at the
Danish exhibit at the fiftieth Venice Biennale is a spiral-bound book that is not
strictly a catalog but that parallels ...