おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
Christoph Niemann’s “Exit Strategy”
The artist discusses using simple visual concepts to represent tangled and complex situations.
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元記事にある過去表紙がかわいい。
channel
意味 〈人が〉＜…に＞〈精力· 感情など〉を注ぐ, 向ける ＜into＞
I spent much of my time in art school working on that approach, but I got my best training during my first years in New York, working for the New York Times Op-Ed page. That job challenged me to channel my reactions to complex news stories into a drawing—often in just a few hours.
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動詞用法、ありますよねぇ…「チャンネルを合わせる」イメージで覚えたい。
refine
意味 〈人が〉〈物· 方法· 技術など〉を洗練 [改良] する, 向上させる
The concept for this cover is simple, and yet you refined every detail, trying out many versions of the maze and numerous color combinations. Why do the details matter?
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obvious
意味 〈意見· 選択などが〉わかりきった, 言わずもがなの, 当然の; 最良と思える
There are the obvious greats, like Saul Steinberg and Tomi Ungerer.
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