INDEX
A :
16,5 x 21,6 cm - 160 pages - full coulour - Soft cover / dust jacket
A very modern, versatile designer (see his contribution to Coast to
Coast), Charles Wilkin of Automatic Art and Design is one of America’s
most noted exponents of modern deconstructive typography, juxtaposing
multi-layered images with type reminiscent of David Carson. With its
splendid 50s colour palettes and a fresh look at classic Americana,
his style has attracted a multitude of awards and clients ranging
from Coca Cola to adidas. Relying on instinct rather than expectations,
Wilkin visually deconstructs the rhetorical line between fine art
and graphic design through his unique use of collage, found objects,
imagery and typography. Not afraid of mixing the finest of lines with
the brash imagery, Wilkin has a way with cut and paste and combining
the hitherto uncombinable: in Index-A he takes design apart, dissects
it and reassembles it in bold, radical re-workings of anything from
Opart to open space, from Panton to Pantone. With a foreword and introductions
by Josh Berger (plazm magazine ), Matt Owens and Warren Corrbit (one9ine)
Index-A documents this intrinsic and emotive process – it acts
as both a catalogue of his informal and dynamic vernacular and a reminder
of the importance and influence of individual expression in an extremely
commercial world.
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