Alexey Brodovitch
I almost don’t even want to design and operate from scratch. I’m into the idea of editing. And I think that’s valuable now, because the cycles have gotten shorter. For me, the ideas of Mies van der Rohe and Bauhaus are things that completely translate to modernism in clothing—the idea that you could design a building that’s so resolved in its princ... See more
Thom Bettridge • VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
I wrote that I was often asked by students: “If you had to select just one name from the whole history of photography as representative of all that is wonderful about the medium, who would it be?” My answer was always: “Bill Brandt.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
Vogel knew the trick of how to make pictures tell a story. One of his pioneering efforts was the double-truck spread, for which a strong photograph was greatly enlarged to mammoth proportions. Pacing photos from large to small to huge to small again provided impact and surprise.
Steven Heller • Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
Lustig imposed his formal preconceptions and designed the magazine as he would a book.