I’m usual quite disenchanted with a lot of design magazines, however I’ve always been impressed with the way Grafik seems to always bring something fresh to the forefront.
This year they’ve already caught me off guard twice, first with the jaw dropping screen-printing job that K2 did for them on issue 150, and now with the book Grafik 150 they’ve released to coincid with their
150th issue celebration.
Despite it’s minute size, this book packs a lot of punch. It features 150 globally renowned designers simply writing about what inspires them, and placing an image on the adjacent page. The content is indulgent in the way that only a creative person speaking to another creative person can be, and the tonal range proves to be equally as interesting. The last spread is saved for Peter Saville. He not only simplified this mini assignment to a new degree, but also summed up the book rather well, writing/drawing “What I see” and “What I feel” on opposite sides of the page, and then connecting them with arrows that form an over all circler shape.
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