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Design Category
Book design, 2001
Design firms
OrangeFlux (Wheaton, Illinois), Fabrizio Gilardino (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Collection
(2002) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2001
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Loud {Bruyant} is a theoretical and visual reflection on the role of graphic design.
Fabrizio Gilardino: My essay, Catastrophe Au Salon Macao, is both a political statement and an aesthetic one. I wanted to be as far away as possible from the classic coffee-table book on graphic design: nice to look at and convenient to forget when clients call. It is also a fulfillment of our desire to create hybrid products.
OrangeFlux: Such products fuse design, art, music and literature to create a new expression. For Esperanto Marmalade, we each played‚ graphic instruments on a long scroll, improvising as the music moved us. It became our visual recording‚ a live graphic jam session.