This autobiographical monograph presents a retrospective of the 40-year innovative graphic design practice of husband-and-wife team, Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell. The two have seamlessly merged the boundaries between graphic design, photography and typography, fusing two-and three-dimensional space through overlapping type and image. Long-time influential designers and educators, and 2017 AIGA medalists, Skolos-Wedell's work has been widely exhibited and published in the US and internationally. The book has been written as a series of interviews between Skolos and Wedell, and beautifully designed by the artists themselves. The result is a work of total design that showcases their unique way of thinking and working.
Prototypes, iterations, and studio set-ups shed light on the process behind the finished work which unfolds in chronological order, subdivided in decades: 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s, with each section beginning with a timeline of notable events. While a time-based taxonomy may seem unimaginative, it was critical for presenting the evolving working methods. To provide the most direct view of the studio's collaborative design process, much of the text unfolds as a series of interviews with each other.
Publisher: Actar D
Pages: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1957183314
Item Weight: 1.84 lbs
Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.16 x 10.5 inches
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"In looking through the pages in the couple's first monograph, Overlap/Dissolve, I was struck, again and again, about how their work, even now, still looks like nothing else throughout graphic design history. The couple makes work that confounds the viewer: analog processes that look digital, flat work that feels three-dimensional, employing graphic design principles while feeling like fine art. The originality in their work is made evident in this book, which condenses four decades of work into a mere 300 pages. Bookended by a highly-personal dialog between the two, we are treated with insights into collaboration, process, the rise of technology, and the joys of teaching." --Fast Company
Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell work to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography-creating collaged three-dimensional images influenced by modern painting, technology, and architecture. With a home/studio in Providence they balance their commitments to professional practice and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. The studio's work came into its own during the 1980s with clients in Boston where the developing high technology industry opened opportunities to develop a graphic language for many intangible inventions. The team's surreal photographic concepts combined with rational typographic structures gave voice to concepts such as "software" and made room for abstraction. A 1993 Eye Magazine feature on the studio labeled their attitude "techno-cubist." Over the span of their career their approach has evolved, and their client base has expanded but their passion for combining photography and graphic design, has remained the foundation of their vision.
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