Drawing and words

Bunpei Yorifuji, Japanese author and illustrator, offers in Drawing and words a personal and enlightened reflection on his profession as a graphic designer. By questioning his practice, he returns to themes specific to this field like the text-image relationship, the influence of technologies on the work of designer, the fragile balance between aesthetics and readability, or the role designer's social. These reflections expressed in the form of a notebook personal stories are enriched with anecdotes and illustrated examples. To complete these general themes, part of the work focuses more precisely on book design and cover design. The author describes with a lot of pedagogy and humor different ways of approaching this work if particular alliance of words and drawing. The question that Bunpei poses Yorifuji could be: what is graphic design, and how to practice it the profession of graphic designer today? The author proposes to answer it as as usual, in text and image, mixing educational drawings and research in-depth: a book to put in the hands of all those who seek to better understand the profession of graphic designer and illustrator and discover all the cross-cutting issues that feed this practice daily.