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Grafik Viewpoint

What's on your bedside table? - Kirsty Carter

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. This is a beautiful book of ideas and memories of the City. It demonstrates how society has an amazing ability to create something of perfection out of chaos, discovering its own patterns from memory and chance. A City is created which can be represented by a perfect picture-postcard city, but also by an old used postcard. A City can be a place that could never become a postcard. You can scan its streets as if they were written pages: the City says everything you think, it only makes you repeat its discourse, while you believe you are making something new. Invisible Cities was an important book for me to have by my bedside while working on the graphic identity of London in Six Easy Steps, the new exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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