"Affected" [Reflections On Book - 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design Stephen Heller and Veronique Vienne - # 35]
When the speed’s expressed as part of life,
Dynamic sense which comes out right
Has interactions with the rest
Of graphic objects – that’s the best.The arrow came to signify
The speed on water, land, and sky;
Two arrows as competitive
Revved up, accelerating, from first shove.The Futurists, and Vorticists –
Obsessed with speed, new to the list
Of marvels nineteenth century
Coughed up with new machinery.Mass markets shift to tools of speed
To satisfy that human need
To use their roads, and trails, and paths –
Accelerated ways at last.For foot, and horse, and falling form,
With boat in rapids, were the norm
For speed until our recent days;
But now we’ve cyclotronic ways –To generate such a rapid speeds
To meet our research-type of needs;
We soon forget how still life was,
For speedy tools released the pause.Thanks Lord for this.
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