All Messed Up

All Messed Up explores the important role that errors and accidents play in the creative process. Sometimes these mishaps end up working to the designer’s advantage and this book challenges long-standing preconceptions that such occurrences are fundamentally wrong. All Messed Up creates a space for work in which mistakes, accidents and the unpredictable are celebrated. Featuring work by established and emerging graphic designers from around the world, the book embraces and even seeks out upsets that have created ground-breaking work. The book is divided into three sections: Mistakes (where something has gone wrong, such as a printer error), Chance (where random occurrences or found objects are incorporated into a piece of work) and System (where a method is created to encourage the unpredictable). It ends with a series of interviews with five leading figures: Ian Anderson, Stefan Sagmeister, Paul Elliman, Stuart Bailey and April Greiman.