no. 26
SELECTED BYADRIAN SHAUGHNESSYSTEDELIJK CATALOGSDESIGNED BYWILLEM SANDBERG
Is it possible for a piece of graphic design to worm its way into our hearts and become an object of infatuation? It seems hardly likely—after all, most graphic design is ephemeral and ends up as discarded junk. Yet if human beings can become infatuated with jewelry, coins, and rodents (I know people who are smitten with each of these phenomena), it must surely be possible to fall in love with a piece of graphic design.
I should know; it happens to me regularly. But rarely with the impact with which this little book hit me. It was lent to me by my friend the designer and collector Tony Brook and contains the work of the Dutch graphic designer Willem Sandberg. I ...
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