Thursday, 4:13pm
28 June 2012

Baffling recollections

Recollected Work: Mevis and Van Deursen

Design by Mevis and Van Deursen. Text by Paul Elliman. Artimo, USD45, €40

If you are an admirer of Armand Mevis and Linda van Deursen, you will love Recollected Work, a new survey of their graphic design projects. If, on the other hand, you have never heard of them, or perhaps have heard of them but would like to know more about why they are so admired, Recollected Work will frustrate and baffle you. If you fall somewhere in between, your reaction will no doubt be ambivalent. Oddly, I sense that ambivalence is the very reaction that would please Mevis and Van Deursen the most …

Read Michael Bierut’s review ‘Baffling recollections’ in Eye 58.