Communication. It is an easy word. It slips off the tongue without a thought. It is with us all the time: the scribbled note pinned on a door to say ‘back in 5’, the jerky prose of the txt, or that blinking on-off banner advertisement on every website (but not this one).
The Information Super highway is now more than 20 years old and is beginning to show some wear and tear.
A while back, I was made aware that I defined Illustration and its relationship with other creative disciplines in terms of territory rather than content. I didn’t mean to, but I do feel aggrieved that my colleagues in typography and graphic design seem to have gained some high ground, as if an understanding of grids and typesetting gives you a quasi-religious insight into design life.