Little Tranquility |
Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is long-lasting. Good design is thorough down to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible. |
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One of the curators of the show, Eleanor Suggett, graduated in graphics from London’s Central St Martins College of Art and Design has since grown to love typography alone as a tool of expression. Her work ranges from editorial to personal interpretations of typographic form. In this exhibition her work draws on the influence of the artistIan Hamilton Finlay (no mean typographer himself), and her work reflects his rigor and precision.
Slate posts are hand-engraved with simple phrases using typefaces, including Trajan and Gill Sans, which reference past masters in the art of lettering. Suggett’s work reflects the modernity of typography (the work is large and stands in the space like an installation) but equally harks back to its traditional ancestors and craftsman like Eric Gill; like Gill’s, her work captures the sensuous nature of letterforms.
