Fresh Dialogue 1, New Voices in Graphic Design [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Nicholas Blechman (Author), Christoph Niemann (Author), Paul Sahre (Author), Paula Scher (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1568982232 | ISBN-13: 978-1568982236 | Publication Date: August 21, 2000 | Edition: 1

Each year, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts shines the spotlight on a few emerging geniuses and invites them to speak on what tomorrow holds for graphic design. Begun in 1983, the Fresh Dialogue lectures have introduced such luminaries as Jonathan Hoeffler, Tibor Kalman, Jennifer Morla, Chip Kidd, and Stefan Sagmeister to the design community. This new series of books will document the Fresh Dialogue presentations, creating a compendium of the field's most talented graphic artists.?

In 1999, the AIGA invited Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Niemann, and Paul Sahre to present their work through an informal conversation about their design ideas and practices. This book presents the results of their collaboration by weaving together images and anecdotes about the artistic process, their interrelated careers, and their work with clients and other designers.

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About the Author

Nicholas Blechman is principal of Knickerbocker Design, an illustration and graphic design studio in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. He is publisher of Nozone and former art director of the New York Times op-ed page. His work has garnered awards fro

Christoph Niemann is an illustrator whose work has been seen in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and Entertainment Weekly.

Paul Sahre is principal of his own design firm. He lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (August 21, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568982232
• ISBN-13: 978-1568982236
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,826,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Christoph Niemann's illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Wired, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. His work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club and American Illustration. He is the author of several children's books, among them "The Pet Dragon," which teaches Chinese characters to young readers and most recently "I LEGO N.Y", where he depicts New York through ultra minimal lego sculptures. For the Website of the New York Times he writes and illustrates a blog called "Abstract City" . After 11 years in New York, he moved to Berlin with his wife, Lisa, and their three sons. His web site is christophniemann.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Graphic Design Book, August 21, 2002

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This review is from: Fresh Dialogue 1, New Voices in Graphic Design (Paperback)

Stemming from a 1999 lecture and slide show for the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists, this crisply designed book with almost 150 images is sure to be of interest to designers everywhere. The works included here come from the personal and professional lives of three young designers: Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Neimann, Paul Sahre.

Blechman is the art director of the New York Times Op-Ed section, and met the other two through his self-published political 'zone, Nozone-samples from which constitute about a fifth of the book. Neimann is German a freelance illustrator for a number of well-known magazines, and a teacher at the School of Visual Arts. His samples have a slightly quirky and offbeat amusing air concealed in their simplicity. Sahre is a well known book cover designer and postermaker, and his samples tend to be more outrightly commercial and graphically appealing than the others.

The book is a quick read, you can probably absorb it in about two hours, and well worth it for those interested in how graphic designers work and arrive at solutions. My own favorite part was the brief "killed work" section, where the three designers discuss work of theirs that was rejected and why. I'll definitely try to track down Fresh Dialogue 2, which covers the next year's lecture.