Adrian Shaugnessy is a graphic designer who also writes many texts on the subject. The way in which Shaugnessy writes is not particularly in a critical way, but it does introduce topics on self-set projects.
In this book Shaugnessy describes self-set projects as graphic authorship. I am not particularly sure what this term is, but it is something that I brushed over last year when I was Michael Rock’s website who works for 2x4 in New York.
In Graphic Design: A User’s Manual the book briefly describes graphic authorship. It is a little vague as to what it is, but gives further points of reference. The article just seems to be Shaugnessey’s quashing of the statement in it’s reference to purely self-set briefs.
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