"Design is not a thing you do. It's a way of life."
After a long battle of cancer, Alan Fetcher, the man who has controibuted tremendously to London's design industry, left us on Thursday, 21st September 2006.
Borne in Kenya in 1931, the co-founder of Fletcher/Forbes/Gill (later becoming Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes) in the 1960s and Pentagram in the 1970s, Fletcher, together with several of his like-minded peers established D&AD - the Design and Art Directors' Association in 1963. In 1994, Fletcher became the Creative Director for a design publishing giant, Phaidon.
To quote Design Museum, "Fletcher has recently donated his archive to the Design Museum in London, which will present the first retrospective of his work this November. The exhibition, Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work (and play), which was scheduled to launch on 11 November 2006, will go ahead as planned, and will celebrate the remarkable life and work of this influential figure of British graphic design."
Alan Fletcher
Graphic Designer (1931-2006)
Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work
(and play)
11 November 2006 - 18 February 2007
Alan Fletcher will be missed dearly by the design industry and remembered for the great things he has done for the design industry. TAXI Design Network sends our heartfelt condolence to his family back home in Notting Hill.
This November, Phaidon will publish Alan Fletcher: Picturing & Poeting.
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