I’m fascinated by Muller-Brockmann’s work and by small press print projects in general so of course I was intrigued by the book and wanted to highlight it.

Anyway, hopefully this is all now cleared up and we all can all move on. But Dylan — please let me know if you would like me to remove the images of your work and the link to your portfolio and I will do so immediately.

I’m a recent graduate — and like almost all recent graduates I’ve got a few pesky student projects still hanging around my portfolio. This expandable book is one of them.

Our brief for the project asked us to create a publication of our choice on a designer or artist of our choice. We had to research the individual, write the entire publication, and choose a client to design it for so that we knew our audience, how it would be distributed, etc… Nothing out of the ordinary here.

I read all of Müller-Brockmann’s books and decided to write a synthesis of his beliefs and the style’s beliefs on each of the major elements of graphic design. I also chose to make the publication bilingual, his were trilingual, to stay somewhat true to that publishing tradition.

Most of my classmates chose major art museums and institutions to design their publication for. It became apparent to me during my research that Blanka would be a more appropriate organization for me to design my publication for. So I did.

My personal portfolio site has only been used by me as an alternative or preview to my print portfolio — in the clearly understood context of a recent graduate’s portfolio with an obvious mix of client and student work.

I have not submitted any of my projects, including my Müller-Brockmann book, to any blogs. It was never meant to be viewed in the context that it has been.

I don’t regularly check my site’s statistics so as soon as Blam contacted me and pointed out what was happening, I removed all references to Blanka in order to avoid misunderstandings within this new context.

My apologies for the mixup! Now we can all keep calm and carry on.

Love, Dylan