Takashi Murakami is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He blurs the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.
Richard Meier is an American architect known for his rationalist designs and the use of the color white.
I find it oddly fitting that even their wiki bios are reflections of their design style. Meier's is one sentence; short and to the point. Every bit like his work. Murakami's is lengthy with what can only be described as a description dripping with words that are as opposite of monosyllable as you can get.
Back to the point ... Esquire did a phenominal job designing this spread and dare I say it - I am actually excited to critique it today on the test.
Examples of Murakami's work:
Examples of Meier's Architecture:
The stark contrast between the two masterminds is perfectly echoed in the Esquire feature.
P-e-r-f-e-c-t-l-y.
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