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January / February 1998
Cover Image: Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 1997, oil on canvas. Photograph: Ellen Page Wilson. Courtesy Pace Wildenstein.
Graphis magazine Issue 313 includes the following stories: Chuck Close: Painting as Performing Art, by Mindy Aloff; Lana Rigsby: Holding Her Ground, by Mike Noble; Maya Lin: One Driving Idea, by Martin C. Pedersen; Koichi Sato: Mr. Sandman, by Maggie Kinser Saiki; St. Luke’s: Making the Irrelevant Relevant, by Jan Burney; All Over the Map with David Byrne, by Ken Coupland; and Raymond Lowey: The Fine Art of Self-Promotion, by Véronique Vienne.
CONTENTS
6 Editorial
9 Contributors to this Issue
12 Product Design: The British are Coming! By Mel Byars
17 Advertising Outdoors Reviewed by Ken Coupland
17 Andrée Putman Reviewed by Rynn Williams
18 Stenberg Brothers Reviewed by Ena Goldstaub-Dainotto
18 Marc Riboud in China Reviewed by Rynn Williams
20 Graphic Design: Mainstreaming Details By Maureen Callahan
26 Consumer Products By Yanitza Tavarez
32 Chuck Close: Painting as Performing Art
With a combination of physical courage, determination and fierce artistic vision, Chuck Close explores the landscape of the human face. By Mindy Aloff
42 Lana Rigsby: Holding Her Ground
Ambitious, steadfast, and intense, Lana Rigsby's relentless pursuit to make her design relevant is not for the faint of heart. By Mike Noble
56 Maya Lin: One Driving Idea
After Creating two monumental works before the age of thirty, Maya Lin sets her sights on an equally daunting challenge: creating architecture as compelling as her art. A progress report. By Martin C. Pedersen
70 Koichi Sato: Mr. Sandman
Once a self-confessed copycat of Andy Worhol and Tadanori Yokoo, Koichi Sato has now mastered his own art of creating dreamlike designs that confront reality and fantasy. By Maggie Kinser Saiki
84 St. Luke's: Making the Irrelevant Relevant
Can an advertising agency be culturally and ethically based without being self-righteous? St. Luke's of London explains why it is different. By Jan Burney
92 All Over the Map with David Byrne By Ken Coupland
101 Raymond Lowey: The Fine Art of Self-Promotion By Véronique Vienne
106 Art Directors Club
108 Type Directors Club
110 Global Report
111 Exhibitions
112 In Memoriam
113 German By Heinke Jenssen
129 French By Caroline Droz, Isabelle Wolf
146 The Tokyo Art Directors Club By Masami Kikuchi
152 Blanking Design Industrial Design, Malmo, Sweden
154 The 100 Best German Posters Competition