Alan Fletcher, graphic designer, was born on September 27, 1931. He died on September 21, 2006, aged 74.<\/p>\n
“Design is not a thing you do, It\u2019s a way of life”<\/em> An overview of his life and work from the Designmuseum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are touching tributes and comments from other designers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Obituaries from the Guardian<\/a>, NYT<\/a>, Times<\/a> and Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alan Fletcher, graphic designer, was born on September 27, 1931. He died on September 21, 2006, aged 74. “Design is not a thing you do, It\u2019s a way of life”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nHis book, the Art of Looking Sideways, is one of my very favourites and had a great effect on me: I am sure I have looked at every page several time, and yet, every time I open it, I see something new.<\/p>\n