March 21, 2005
todd schorr
I kept thinking about these Milton Glaser things, and there is one thing that I find kind of unsatisfactory. Number 6, about style: "But the point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist." Now I for me personally, I find Glaser's more recent work not that appealing. But that might just as well just be me. I don't think he is very influential on the young and hot anymore. But take his sixties counterpart Alan Aldridge, I don't think he ever gave a single thought to any zeitgeist, he just kept doing what he did until fashion came back to him. And just look at the influence Aldridge still has on the young and hot. It wasn't easy but I managed to find three websites with a little more than a little bit of information about Aldridge. 1 2 3
Posted by eliane at March 21, 2005 08:04 PMAldridge must have made a fortune working with the Beatles!
Posted by: Joe at March 22, 2005 11:20 AMHello Eliane
I see nothing wrong in responding to the Zeitgeist. I would not want to have missed them both. Anyway it's ten rules, not ten laws. Milton was ofcourse in his heigh days a part of the Zeitgeist. I loved it than. Do not know what he makes today. I'll check it soon.
Use the rules you like and bend them in your own benefit. i liked it very much that you posted it.
Kiss
Your overseas friend Lex
Posted by: Lex vd Oudeweetering at March 22, 2005 03:18 PMI never said there is anything wrong in responding to zeitgeist, I merely said I find it unsatisfactory in this case. I even tend to agree with Glaser, Glaser is I think much more interesting and much more intellectual then our hippie friend Aldridge. But looking at their work, I secretly turn around. Capice?
Posted by: eliane at March 22, 2005 03:32 PM