Meandering Through Graphic Design Eras with Creative Director...

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Meandering Through Graphic Design Eras with Creative Director @llagj

To keep up with creative director John Gall’s graphic design adventures and discoveries, follow @llagj on Instagram.

“Who wouldn’t want to be a time traveler?” asks John Gall (@llagj), the creative director at Abrams Books, a New York art and illustrated book publisher. Following John on Instagram is like being lead on impromptu meanderings through different vintages of graphic design eras. His feed is a guided time travel with whimsical stops to admire bold fonts, witty titles, original artwork, unexpected pairings and design experiments that often feel fresh and contemporary all over again. “I am very much interested in how design from the past has influenced the things of the present and how they will continue to influence the future,” he explains. “The slow push forward has always been built on the backs of what came before.”

To keep his design senses sharp for work, where he creates book covers, John keeps up a steady practice of making collages at home in New Jersey. “It started as an exercise in stepping away from the computer and the design process and focusing on what can be made with materials at hand—working simply with scissors, paper and glue and giving myself the permission to make something just because I want to see what it looks like. Although the process has restrictions, it’s terribly exciting, as I get to discover all kinds of new juxtapositions and associations that arrive out of seemingly nowhere.”

by via Instagram Blog