Two-Dimensional Man

Description

Paul Sahre ranks alongside modern-day design heroes Stefan Sagmeister and Chip Kidd as one of the most influential graphic designers of his generation. Two-Dimensional Man is a fresh take on the traditional design monograph: part memoir, part art book, part meditation on creativity. Throughout, Sahre combines poignant personal essays about living creatively with artwork culled from his extraordinary 30-year career. In his revealing stories, Sahre portrays the creative life as one of constant questioning, inventing, failing, dreaming, and-ultimately-making. In Two-Dimensional Man, Sahre documents how moments like these have informed his life as a designer and artist, and proves that humour and meaning can be found anywhere, if you're only willing to look.

Paul Sahre is a visual contributor to the New York Times and the author of a book on ham radio. He once built and destroyed a life-sise monster truck hearse for the band They Might Be Giants. Sahre received his BFA and MFA from Kent State University, has taught at the School of Visual Arts for the past 13 years, and is an in-demand lecturer worldwide. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale. He works in New York City.

"Paul Sahre has designed almost all of my book covers, and I have yet to write a book that's as intuitively intelligent or aesthetically provocative as whatever cover he created for its face. This is the story of his intelligent, provocative life."--Chuck Klosterman "author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs " "It is a pure delight to hear Paul Sahre's deep, wry voice throughout the pages of this book. Who knew he could write so wonderfully? The clarity and genius of his process is illuminated, as is the rarely seen but nigh-impossible path of getting anything beautiful printed or published. His anecdotes, much like his design, are rooted in a comfortable, almost commonplace sprawl, which suddenly rear into politics, poignancy and subversion."--Leanne Shapton "artist, designer, and author of Swimming Stories and Women in Clothes " "A gut wrenching and at times hilariously compelling look into a designer's life. This is the only 'design monograph' in memory I could honestly characterize as a 'page turner.'"--Elliott Earls "A MUST READ for any designer just starting out, running on cruise-control, or completely tanking in this messy, fucked up, and glorious business."--James Victore "Smart, funny, and deeply affecting. Design great Paul Sahre has written the best sort of design book, namely: not a design book. Though you'll learn more about design from this memoir than you're likely to learn elsewhere and, along the way, pick up a few things about the AMC Gremlin, Steely Dan, Pee Wee football, some kind of meat sandwich called, evidently, 'the spiedie, ' life in a circus, Kent State, German airport security, the effects of amphetamines, sign painting, doorways to alternate universes, and the tortuous and unavoidable tribulations of belonging to an American family."--Peter Mendelsund "designer and author of What We See When We Read "