Consistency the killer

Knife illustration with consistency the killer written on the blade, red lines boxing an area around it as if it was a logo
Knife illustration with consistency the killer written on the blade, red lines boxing an area around it as if it was a logo

I used to be all about consistency. I was obsessed with Bauhaus design. I read about the great 60s corporate identity designers like Rand and Vignelli, I studied their meticulous design manuals, and I wanted my work to be just like theirs. Logical. Minimal. Clean. And, yes, consistent. So very, very consistent.

Consistency was the killer attribute of design, I thought. But now when I think about consistency it appears to…

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Pascal Barry

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