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Marc English

The latest issue of the Austin Chronicle has a great Marc Savlov profile of my friend Marc English, designer extraordinaire. The quote below has one thought, though I just messaged Marc I think he's really the Joe Strummer of design. (I'm not sure what that means, but I don't know what "Stanley Kubrick of design" means, either. Maybe he's the Marc English of design?) Whatever the case, every time I visit Marc's studio, I feel very down the rabbit hole.

His identity both as a human being and an artist is XXL life. Austin
filmmaker/writer Cary Roberts has rightly called him "the Stanley
Kubrick of design." He fairly burns with passion for his life and work,
and he wants you to burn, too. No sparks or embers here. English is a
conflagration of design theory, overwhelming talent, and
experimentalism, and his work with Criterion meets at the dirty
crossroads of the artistic truth of what has been entrusted to him and
the bottom line, the movement of "product," the allure of the dream
made cardboard, laser-encoded plastic discs, at midnight, beneath a
full moon, with pistols and blood well spent. His aim is truest.

jon posted this at 6:46 AM
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