Graphic motifs
Passing the galleryA photo: Ivan Sorokin, - the press services
Text: Marina Volkova
Magazine: N11 (166) 2011
It would seem that everything is very simple: the letters are put into words, words - in sentences. Combine them with a common idea - you get the text. As if not so! At least in modern design. Letters twist, twirl, and as a result we get lamps, tables, chairs - in a word, anything, but not language values. The content of this design text is not the most important. A linguist-traditionalist such works would have horrified, but on the contrary, futurist poets, rebels and innovators would have liked it.
Pop art artists were fascinated with inscriptions; the canvases of the 1960s and 80s are dotted with more and more slogans and slogans. Modern designers do not proclaim anything, considering the inscription as a variation on the theme of ornament. Armchairs