Ed Fella: A Life in Images

美国设计师埃德-费拉：影像中的生活

•产品信息——

出版社：THAMES & HUDSON

出版日期：2023年2月

语言：英语

页数：388页

ISBN-10：1916457371

ISBN-13：978-1916457379

尺寸：262mm x206mm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

•内容简介——

这本姗姗来迟的书审视了艺术家/设计师埃德·费拉非凡的生活和工作。埃德·费拉受到当代设计界许多知名人士的尊敬。现在，终于有一本书描绘了埃德从20世纪50年代底特律的商业设计工作室到现在作为一个广受赞誉的艺术家/设计师的位置的旅程。《埃德·费拉:影像中的生活》广泛利用了他丰富的视觉乐趣:它展示了传单、海报、原始草图、图纸、宝丽来照片和拼贴画，以及埃德收集的本土设计作品。埃德·费拉是许多设计师都想成为的设计师，不是在模仿他，甚至不是在做他所做的那种工作。相反，他让人钦佩的是他将自己从几乎所有平面设计师工作的限制中解放出来的方式。正如设计师和作家Lorraine Wild所说:“费拉将自己描述为一个‘出口级设计师’，这意味着他仍然会制作模仿平面设计的作品(因为它使用排版和其他图形手段和材料)，但这些作品是在没有客户、预算、时间表和项目定义限制的情况下创作的。”埃德本人对自己的立场很清楚。他说:“我不是一个业余爱好者，也不是一个局外人，我是一个局外人。但我做这些东西的时候，有很多研究、阅读和思考，但我做的时候不一定是有意识的。”

A long overdue book examining the extraordinary life and work of artist/designer Ed Fella. Ed Fella is revered by many of the leading names in contemporary design. Now, at long last, there is a book that charts Ed’s journey from the commercial design studios of 1950s Detroit to his current position as a widely celebrated artist/designer. Ed Fella: A Life in Images makes extensive use of his vast treasure store of visual delight: it showcases flyers, posters, original sketches, drawings, Polaroids and collages, as well as items from Ed’s collection of vernacular design. Ed Fella is the designer that many designers would like to be. Not in the sense of copying him, or even doing the type of work he does. Rather, he is admired for the way he has freed himself from the restrictions that nearly all graphic designers work under. As designer and writer Lorraine Wild states: “Fella describes himself as an ‘exit-level designer’, meaning that he still produces work that emulates graphic design (in that it uses typography and other graphic means and materials) but which is created without the constraints of clients, budgets, schedules, and project definitions.” Ed himself has a clear idea about his position. He says: “I'm not an amateur or an outsider artist, I'm an outlier. But there's a lot of study, reading and thinking that went into the things [I make], but not necessarily consciously while I was doing them."