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Article: A man apart.
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- Creative Review
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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By rediscovering his native visual culture, Iranian graphic designer Reza Abedini has produced work that goes beyond Western limitations. Rick Poynor meets him
While the graphic design of the Western world can take many different forms, the thinking, motivations and purposes behind it usually follow some well-trodden paths. It's easy for a designer in London, Paris or New York to fall into the habit of assuming that this is what graphic design is, this is what it's for, and there can be no going beyond boundaries that may not even be noticed most of the time.
The work of the Iranian designer Reza Abedini shows the deep limitations of this way of ...