Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire inaugurates a bold new direction for this popular series of roundtable discussions by emerging designers. The new design is leaner and meanermore like a manifesto than a catalogand ready to inspire. The 62 is a Brooklyn-based design and art collective that works with designers, artists, and social and not-for-profit organizations on projects that involve a vision of sustainable culture within a contemporary urban environment. Crye Associates design, engineer, and fabricate everything from light switches and handheld PCs to handgun components and GP racing motorcycles. As lead contractors on the U.S. military's Project Scorpion they are reinventing everything worn or carried by asoldier. In Fresh Dialogue 6, The 62 and Crye Associates discuss their similarities and differences with special emphasis on the large gray area in between.
The AIGA's Fresh Dialogue series brings together emerging designers in annual podium discussions and provides them with a forum to talk about their work, thoughts, and ideas. Fresh Dialogue 7: Making Magazines presents three young publishing gurus who are reinventing how magazines are made.They've thrown off the templates and formulas of traditional publishing in favor of new and innovative approaches to magazine making. Representing the next generation of publishing kingpins, the book features Tod Lippy, creator of the luscious biannual arts publication Esopus; Lisa Farjam, the force behind Middle-East culture magazine Bidoun; and master storyteller David Haskell, editor-in-chief of Topic magazine. The moderator is magazine industry mover, shaker, and supreme tastemaker James Truman.
The inner thoughts, struggles and insights of three young, innovative graphic designers-Jason Fulford, Peter Buchanan-Smith and Leanne Shapton-are explored here. Using the word "spine" as its theme, the book examines the worlds of publishing and self-publishing from the perspective of the graphic designer. Leanne Shapton, an illustrator, graphic designer and publisher, was art director for the Arts and Life section of the National Post.
"Each year, the New York Chapter of the AIGA brings together emerging designers for 'Fresh Dialogue, ' a panel discussion that provides a forum to talk about their work, thoughts, and ideas ... Playing with the notion of designer as visual interlocutor, these designers craft conversations wherein their viewers become participants and the relationship between design and its consumers is radically redefined."--Page 4 of cover
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