Disorder Swiss Grit Vol. II
Chris Ashworth fuses a career as a creative director driving strategic brand work for global brands with three decades of passion for experimental graphic design and typography. Disorder is the first book dedicated to the product of this rule-breaking output and his inimitable ‘Swiss Grit’ approach, which sees modernist type principles combine with a soulful street aesthetic.
From work made for the influential Ray Gun music magazine in the 1990s, through to his more recent hands-on, type-based projects for clients such as Nike and New Order, Disorder is concerned with the human craft of creativity – the details, imperfections and serendipitous moments. Disorder is an AI-free zone.
Covering work made from 1997 to 2024, the book features 488 pages of published and unpublished work from Ray Gun (issues 44–58), alongside marked-up chromalins, diary entries and discarded early layouts. Disorder charts the development of Ashworth’s career from an independent designer to becoming creative director at Microsoft in Seattle, and brings together a selection of his ‘found-type’ photography and music-inspired artworks. Ashworth sees his work – craft-based, handmade – as a counterpoint to our screen dependent digital culture, and the manifestation of an alternative view, arguing that creative development away from the computer offers unique and precious merits.
Thames & Hudson was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath. Their passion and mission was to create a ‘museum without walls’ and to make accessible to a large reading public the world of art and the research of top scholars. To reflect its international outlook the name for the company linked the rivers flowing through London and New York, represented in its logo by two dolphins symbolizing friendship and intelligence, one facing east, one west, suggesting a transatlantic connection.
Today, still an independent, family-owned company, Thames & Hudson is one of the world’s leading publishers of illustrated books with over 2,000 titles in print. We publish high-quality books across all areas of visual creativity: the arts (fine, applied, decorative, performing), architecture, design, photography, fashion, film and music, and also archaeology, history and popular culture. Our children’s books list is also expanding. Headquartered in London, we have a sister company in New York (Thames & Hudson Inc.). Since 1970, Thames & Hudson Australia has operated from Melbourne as both an originating publisher and sales and distribution provider. We also have subsidiary sales and distribution companies in Hong Kong (Thames & Hudson Asia) and Paris (Interart).
Extent: 488 pp
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Illustrations: 580
Publication date: 2025-03-20
Size: 27.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500029060
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