graphic. steven heller - sketch book of greatest graphic designers

 This is a book that i had come across at the baltic library, it shows sketch books of  the worlds greatest graphic designers like paul rand,stefan sagmeister etc.
i think this is an interesting book as it takes you in to visual format of these graphic designers minds in how they work and ideas they produce, - the raw format to their final designs that you don't usually see. 

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister, Austrian-born, New York-based designer and provocateur, has maintained expansive sketchbooks since he was seventeen. "I find it easier to think about an idea once it’s down on paper, which gives me the opportunity to squeeze it (until the juice runs down its legs)."

Michael Bierut

New York-based Pentagram partner Michael Bierut has been keeping sketchbooks since he started drawing in 1982. “They function like a security blanket for me. I can’t go into a meeting unless I have my book in my hand. Because I carry one everywhere, I tend to misplace them. Losing one makes me frantic. Once I left one on the roof of a cab on the Upper West Side. I ended up walking ten blocks, retracing the taxi’s route, until I found it on Broadway at 63rd Street, intact except for some tire marks.”

 Sean Adams

Sean Adams, co-founder of AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills, California (and Co.Design expert blogger), has kept a sketchbook since his first day at CalArts in 1982. Keeping the sketchbooks is a discipline for Adams: “When I look at them as a whole, the common theme of the notebooks is popular culture combined with a Surrealist process. Sounds fancy, but there is often no premeditation of the objects or images selected.”

i find its interesting how sean dipicks a colour palette or tone with a pantone swatch closely selected from the image and logs these in his sketch book.

Noma Bar

Israeli-born, London-based caricaturist Noma Bar creates abstract images of his subjects using objects relevant to the person’s life. In his over 60 sketch books you can see him working through these ideas by creating different body parts out of found materials.

i thinks interesting how noma uses found objects as a starting point to imaginately create a image from this.

Milton Glaser

A treasure of American design, Milton Glaser has designed posters, packaging, publications, environments, the iconic "I heart NY" logo. He has kept a sketchbook since attending the High School of Music & Art in New York. He says he still keeps sketchbooks to "remind me of what I’ve forgotten."

Pep Carrió

Pep Carrió, a Spanish graphic designer, began to work on these diaries in 2007 as a project to create an image every day. Carrió says that his books are "a portable laboratory, where I can work with difference ideas and found images."

black against and repetitive pattern.

Clive Piercy

Clive Piercy, English-born proprietor of the Santa Monica-based design firm Air Conditioned, has been keeping sketchbooks, as he says, "on and off for donkey’s years." He considers them a "visual diary." Although there is no theme, Piercy likes “wordplay, and these pages afford me a chance to stretch my associative wordsmithing limbs."

visual diary of text exploration with a traditional english text style.

sources: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662565/a-look-inside-the-sketchbooks-of-12-top-designers-slideshow

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