A graphic designer shows the power of a few letters | Michael Bierut | MoMA BBC | THE WAY I SEE IT

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2019
  • Michael Bierut is today’s guest on “The Way I See It,” our radio collaboration with BBC. Bierut is a partner and designer at Pentagram where he works with clients such as The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Mastercard. He published a monograph of his work, “How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world” in 2015 to great success. He joins us in front of a painting by Edward Ruscha and marvels at Ruscha’s ability to see the potential of a few letters-his ability to create “something that mimics the language of direct communication but in fact does something very oblique.”
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Комментарии • 30

  • @calebdevries2988
    @calebdevries2988 4 года назад +27

    “UHF” more like “OOOOOOOF”

  • @brandongorin7978
    @brandongorin7978 4 года назад +15

    I always found this painting sarcastic.

  • @thebittenmac
    @thebittenmac 4 года назад +8

    And that painting inspired IKEA 😜

  • @erinmcdonald7362
    @erinmcdonald7362 4 года назад +22

    now that's what I call a big OOF

  • @cloudhair5921
    @cloudhair5921 4 года назад +4

    Saw ed ruscha's work and clicked 😊

  • @PumpkinCherub
    @PumpkinCherub 3 года назад

    I love looking at this painting.

  • @marendse6561
    @marendse6561 4 года назад +3

    I legit paused the video to see if the kerning was right

  • @dakoten8426
    @dakoten8426 4 года назад +2

    oh no, i can see this is going places

  • @nicolasgauthier9382
    @nicolasgauthier9382 4 года назад +3

    The mathematics failed to find a solution to the circle from the square : here the square of O by O is F as Finaly in the square of the painting ! Art and science looking at each other gives a hidden number in the painting and making appear a geometric shape...
    Realy amazing

  • @KateCarew
    @KateCarew 4 года назад +14

    Who among us has never heard oof? It’s a daily visitor to my ears!
    I heard it several times in this discussion alone! So segueing from “I don’t think I’ve actually ever heard anyone saying oof”, segueing to “it’s exactly something you hear” is...rather wishy washy.
    Talk about self contradictions 😳
    Maybe saying the image mirrors the impact of the connotation of the word?
    It’s blunt and visceral, striking and singular...an isolated statement. Oof, we feel it as we see it.

  • @asddsdfsh
    @asddsdfsh 9 месяцев назад

    Great guy!

  • @kotonizna
    @kotonizna 4 года назад +2

    I see Watchmen on that painting

  • @lmhvfd
    @lmhvfd 3 года назад +1

    "I have never heard anyone say OOF"
    let me introduce you to roblox

  • @non-pe8xn
    @non-pe8xn 4 года назад +16

    OOF

  • @bananasrfr14
    @bananasrfr14 4 года назад +3

    No mention of the intentional negative space above and below the letters? They missed half of it.

  • @pexafo6694
    @pexafo6694 4 года назад +8

    𝐎𝐎𝐅

  • @TheLennlenny
    @TheLennlenny 4 года назад +14

    Big OOF

  • @shanedoos7148
    @shanedoos7148 4 года назад +1

    cream background black font would've of made it purer, blue/yellow...too pop

  • @mikevanderheiden
    @mikevanderheiden 4 года назад +4

    could be kerned a bit better.

  • @tambo2397
    @tambo2397 3 года назад

    *O O F*

  • @nicolasgauthier9382
    @nicolasgauthier9382 3 года назад +1

    When you see letters, think numbers : guematria
    O = 60 and F = 6
    So the artist tells that the essential is to be seen as what we don't see in what we see, not at all what we only see
    The square O O takes value 60 x 60 = 3600 = 36 O O and it means with Five value 6, the two solutions to the cycle of the years....here the artist lets us see two solutions of the cicrle meaning full cycle by 365 and 366
    It's an amazing representation of the cycle of the years and time can't be seen only through events or perfect numbers but also with additional dimension of the letters for humanity understanding...obviously a creation
    Yellow above blue achieves like sun over our blue planet making our calendar 365 366...it's only perfect, only genius

  • @xivok
    @xivok 4 года назад +1

    "WOOF" is better

  • @josephjohnherbert
    @josephjohnherbert 4 года назад

    BOO

  • @nathanaelwiebe7632
    @nathanaelwiebe7632 4 года назад

    Lol oof

  • @pietrofioreartist4399
    @pietrofioreartist4399 4 года назад

    FOO

  • @sabrinanascimento1267
    @sabrinanascimento1267 4 года назад +1

    He calls this Art? What would Monet say? Great Artists bled and died and sweat for their Art. Not put a giant stencils down and get a spray paint can.

  • @dosenmais74838
    @dosenmais74838 4 года назад +11

    OOF

  • @tracy9610
    @tracy9610 4 года назад

    OOF

  • @toonsandro
    @toonsandro 4 года назад

    OOF

  • @aidanjames7271
    @aidanjames7271 4 года назад

    OOF