Sean Adams
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Sean Adams|Evidence
Admiration for the Bland Subject (and Beautiful Design)
When presented with dull content, Sean Adams recommends designers “reframe, augment, or interpret the content and redesign.”
Sean Adams|Essays
Remembering Clive Piercy
Without Clive the world will be a little less colorful.
Sean Adams|Evidence
Mixing Metaphors
This conceptual approach of the “fused metaphor” combines symbol “A” with symbol “B” to produce a new result.
Sean Adams|Essays
Margo Chase
The design profession and all of us lost a treasure last weekend when Margo Chase died.
Sean Adams|Evidence
Joe Orton: Dangerous Collage
Is it graphic design?
Sean Adams|Evidence
Manifesto of Surrealism: 3 Tragedies
We pass through our days creating fictions to make sense of the world.
Sean Adams|Evidence
John Astrop and Eric Hill, Booze, 1967
Historic design work, linked to the cultural standards of its time, is often unacceptable now. Does that make it bad? Should the creator be vilified? Should the offending design work be eliminated from a classroom or book?
Sean Adams|Books
Subjective + Emotional
Color is subjective and emotional.
Sean Adams|Evidence
Mary Blair: The Grand Canyon Concourse Mural
Mary Blair’s Grand Canyon Concourse mural in the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World is a super-graphic that transforms the architecture.
Sean Adams|Evidence
Phyllis Tanner
“It is a cut-throat business. Be good at negotiating. It is not just about ART.”
Sean Adams|Slideshows
Pan Am: History, Design, & Identity
Matthias Huhne tells the story of the world’s largest airline for much of the 20th century with images, printed artifacts, and the Pan Am identity.
Sean Adams|Evidence
Jennifer Morla: El Museo Mexicano, 1995
As a designer, does the work we create subjugate and presume superiority over another culture, or does it attempt to authentically represent it?