I agree with Michael Bierut (one of my design heroes and inspirations)'s comments on utilizing the obvious for communication and clear message. I think this can be seen in my designs for Wider Angle and Olaris Records. But there is something to be said for design as art. That is to say, when the message itself is already rather obvious, the designer as artist usually takes over to blend function with form. In the best cases, anyway. Displaying winners in a design contest is one thing, but creating an album cover is something different altogether.
Among the design professions, graphic design is an embarrassingly low-risk enterprise. Our colleagues in architecture, industrial design and fashion design are tormented by nightmares of smoldering rubble, brutally hacked off fingers, and embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions. We graphic designers flirt with...paper cuts. Thus liberated from serious threats, we invent our own: skating on the edge of illegibility, daring readers to navigate indecipherable layouts, and concocting unlikely new ways to solve problems that don't actually exist.
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