Pražák Palacea part of the
24th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2010curator Rick Poynor
Surrealism and Graphic Design seeks to trace the presence of an alternative Surrealist tradition in graphic design. This surfaces from time to time when a designer appears who is receptive to this way of working, without ever cohering into a widely practised or dominant tendency within graphic design. A useful way of thinking about this kind of work is in terms of the grid. Most graphic design conforms to a strict underlying grid. This imposes order but it also imposes limits and, ultimately, it constrains certain kinds of thinking. The designs shown in this exhibition reject the bureaucratic control of the grid. They follow the impulses and dictates of a fluid, wayward, subjective, dream-like logic, finding their own inherent form and balance.
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