Set The Twilight Reeling

Stefan Sagmeister, you need to research  Stefan Sagmeister; word's repeating again and again as I sit staring at a brief, a piece of paper containing four other names, but  Stefan Sagmeister is the name I pick. Maybe it's the alliteration or maybe it's the simplicity of my own  laziness, for his name is the first on the page and I choose it as my point of research. Never the less, I find myself at this point in time writing about a "graphic designer and typographer," Googled information providing the foundation for this blog.

Yet, even reading information sourced from a secondary resource, I find myself questioning the reality as  I recall the word's of director Terry Gilliam. In an interview referring to his 1985 film Brazil, he remarked that he had never read Orwell's 1984, arguing that his primary idea could still be understood without being influenced to greatly by the writers word's. Contemplating this, I find myself on Sagmeister's web site: http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com

 

 The eye's, the never ending and continually staring eye's focus on my own consciousness, as I methodically deconstruct the word's drawn onto the face. The eye's, free from typography provide a level of contrast rarely seen, as they stare free from distraction... free from discourse.

I glance across visioning only three words: Heart, Sex, Cry.

Countless other's are written, yet these three word's particularly stand out. My conclusion arrives from a photograph's perspective; that colour only show's the colour a person's clothes, while black and white shows the colour of their soul and it this which I am viewing. Associating: heart, cry and sex with the staring person, associating the word's with his loss, his depression as I slowly deduct logic from the picture.

It is surrounded by white, a compositional attribute forming  a very  defined image. White being the absence of colour coincides with my own perspective, that this is supposed to generate a personal response separate form anyone else.

Isn't that what art is?

A generating perspective of a time, emotion or form?  

I must confess, that like Gilliam I have not listened to one song of Lou Reed's, but this is not a blog about a "graphic designer and typographer," this is blog about a piece of art and my reaction to it. This is what I see, not a pierce of advertisement or a commission, but a piece of art. 

 Moving  away from this, but still continuing on the subject of typography , I highly recommend Memento,  Christopher Nolan's second feature as it show's the power of word's, resonating more greatly than any other scene in the film.