Beware Wet Paint: Designs by Alan Fletcher

Product Description

Surveying thirty-five years of Alan Fletcher’s work, this book is an essay upon the design process as undertaken by a tireless and hugely gifted individual. The thinking behind his solutions and methods are illustrated by a range of examples, each accompanied by a full commentary from Jeremy Myerson. Four essays give further critical and biographical insight into the work, and the man.

About the Author

Alan Fletcher was a founder member of the design group Pentagram and is renowned as a designer of unique style and purpose. In a long and distinguished career, he has been associated with some of the most progressive patrons of modern design, including Reuters Lloyd's of London, IBM, Herman Miller, Olivetti, Pirelli, Fortune and Domus. He was consultant Art Director to Phaidon Press. Jeremy Myerson is professor of design studies and co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art, London. A former editor of Design Week, which he founded in 1986 as the world's first weekly news magazine for design consultants, he is the author of a number of books on design and communication, including Rewind: 40 years of Design and Advertising, published by Phaidon in 2002.