Ayaka Ito (New York, USA)
Ayaka Ito (New York, USA)
A line can be the source of creation The more lines you put down, the more you'll find something interesting and unique out of your creation that no-one else has made yet.
Ayaka Ito is a graphic designer/illustrator living and working in New York City. She loves rich colours and all things hand-made and is following her passion to make print and interactive work for fashion and art clients at RoAndCo Studio.
IdN v19n3: The Line Issue p14-15
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IdN v19n3: The Line Issue — Artist on the Front Line
A line is so much more than just the distance between two dots. It is the fundamental building-block that every artist employs – even if, like Jackson Pollock, they are simply dribbling paint onto a horizontal canvas. It is a signifier of innate talent: the critics speak of "bold" lines and "subtle" lines. One would be hard-pressed to think of any work of art that did not involve lines – even Malevich's notorious 1915 "Black Square" wouldn't have worked without an outline to define it.
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"A line is an object. When there are many lines — this is texture."
Sigurður Oddsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"Like many graphic designers, I started out doing this so as to be able to make record covers. My heroes were guys like Storm Thorgerson and Roger Dean and I always hoped to be able to do great work like that. I am happy to have been able to do some – being a musician myself has perhaps helped me in some ways, as the music scene in Iceland is very tight-knit, everybody knows everyone."
Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson (Reykjavík, Iceland)
"In both graphics and type, I like clean, simple, modern and a little bit of attitude. Lately I have been inspired by graphics and letterforms from Germany around 1930. So much beauty and discipline!"
Baddydesign (Barcelona, Spain)
"I believe the wider the horizons one has, the more resources one has to seek inspiration. The richer and more dynamic a culture, the more creative it is."
Dóri Andrésson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"I believe that many people, and many musicians, underestimate the power and the effect that visual art can bring to a music experience. That’s why we see a lot of bad album covers that add more or less nothing to the music or the experience when you listen to a new record."
Lang/Baumann — Sabina Lang, Daniel Baumann (Burgdorf, Switzerland)
"A line can be many things: a guiding line or a border between two fields, but it is also the most simple geometrical form that can be infinite."
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