A technique for dealing with artists

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A technique for dealing with artists.





A technique for dealing with artists.

W. A. Dwiggins


William Addison Dwiggins 6

(1880 — 1956)


William Addison Dwiggins

Born on the 19th of June 1880 in Martinsville, Ohio W. A. Dwiggins was a U.S. type designer, calligrapher, and book designer. He attained prominence as an illustrator and commercial artist, and he brought to the designing of type and books some of the boldness that he displayed in his advertising work. His typefaces — Electra and Caledonia are most widely used — were specifically designed for Linotype composition and have the clean spareness of the motor age. Metro is most notable as his most modern sans serif typeface. Metro was developed by Linotype in the late 1920s in response to similar type being sold from European foundries such as Futura, Gill Sans, and Erbar. His scathing attack on contemporary book designers in An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books (1919) led to his working with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. A series of finely conceived and executed trade books followed and did much to increase public interest in book format. Dwiggins was perhaps more responsible than any other designer for the marked improvement in book design in the 1920s and 1930s. He gained recognition as a calligrapher and wrote much on the graphic arts, notably essays collected in MSS by WAD (1949), and his Layout in Advertising (1928; rev. ed. 1949) remains standard. WAD (as he called himself) is credited with coining the term “graphic designer” in 1922 to describe his various activities in book design, illustration, typography, lettering and calligraphy (his first typeface designs

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were released much later). The term did not achieve widespread usage until after the Second World War.

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Dwiggins’ love of wood carving led to his creation of a marionette theatre in a garage (.5 Irving Street) behind his home in Hingham, Massachusetts (30 Leavitt Street), and a puppet group named the Püterschein Authority. In 1933 he performed his first show there, The Mystery of the Blind Beggarman. Dwiggins built his second theatre under his studio at 45 Irving Street. Further productions of the Püterschein Authority included Prelude to Eden, Brother Jeromy, Millennium 1, and The Princess Primrose of Shahaban in Persia. Most of his marionettes were twelve inches tall. The marionettes were donated to the three-room Dwiggins Collection at the Boston Public Library in 1967. He passed away on the 25th of December 1956 in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1957, shortly after his death, Bookbuilders of Boston, an organization of book publishing professionals that Dwiggins helped to establish, renamed their highest award the W.A. Dwiggins Award.


William Addison Dwiggins

Typefaces: Arcadia (1947) Metroblack (1930) Electra (1935) Caledonia (1938) Charter (1946) Hingham (not released) Experimental 267D Eldorado (1953) Falcon (1961) Stuyvesant (1949) Tippecanoe (not released) Winchester (not released) Bibliography: An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books (1919) Layout in Advertising (1928) Towards a Reform of the Paper Currency, Particularly in Point of its Design (The Limited Editions Club, 1932) Form Letters: Illustrator to Author (William Edwin Rudge, 1930) Millennium 1 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1945) Books illustrated or designed: The Complete Angler, Izaak Walton (Merrymount Press, 1928) Paraphs, Hermann Pßterschein (Alfred A Knopf for the Society of Calligraphers, 1928) The Lone Striker, Robert Frost (Alfred A. Knopf, 1933) Beau Brummell , Virginia Woolf (Rimington & Hooper, 1930) The Witch Wolf: An Uncle Remus Story, Joel Chandler Harris (Bacon & Brown, 1921)

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Introduction

Introduction American captains of industry — such ones at least as direct the manufacture and sale of household wares — have been obliged to do that thing that turns the heads of captains grey, namely: to change the tactical scheme in the heat of battle… In the last ten years a curious change has swept across the fancy of the buying public. The people who buy — that is to say, the women of the country — suddenly think they want art mixed in their purchases. A kitchen range cannot any longer be sold merely as a kitchen range. It has to be offered as a kitchen range plus. The plus is art. Whether the manufacturers and merchandisers themselves are to blame for this radical change in the consumer-fancy is a question: how far, for example, were certain individuals of the group tempted to travel outside the bounds of sound conservative practice into regions of “esthetics”? How far, by so traveling, did they muddle up the merchandising game? …But the change has occurred, and the result of this change is… chaos. Machines have been used in the manufacture of domestic wares — utensils, materials, tools, les meubles

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— for one hundred years. Never, in that whole time, has it been necessary at any moment for a proprietor of machines to ask anybody’s advice about how the machines should be used. All problems in the operation were solved by people in his immediate employ. For all matters that concerned the shapes and finishes of his product he could rely on his own judgement. If he thought an article needed to look handsomer he told his people how to make it handsomer. If he wanted floral encrustations on a cast-iron column so blemishes wouldn’t show, he called in the help of the ever-available female relative who had taken lessons in chinapainting. If he thought a paint-stripe was needed on a wagon-wheel, he said what color the stripe was to be and where it was to go. His determination of style was final. His taste was as good as any other man’s taste. The country was a democracy. But now — with this demand for art an essential part of the product — the manufacturer finds himself dangling over an abyss that he can neither plumb nor bridge… The new fancy for art-varnish on merchandise puts a strain on the old system that it can’t stand up under. The manufacturer, by hook or by crook, has got to provide art. He can’t supply it — his office-force can’t supply it — his telephone-girl is flabbergasted — the men in the shop are dazed, insulted, by the simple word — organization helpless, owner to errand-boy — square miles of machines to make things: not a soul on the premises to say how the machines are to make artistic things… There is only one course for the proprietor to pursue: go outside his organization and call in an artist!


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He does so. He faces the music. He turns his back on tradition — on his own carefully assembled working force. He calls in an artist. And finds… what? He finds that he is not able to deal with this person on any rational terms whatsoever. He finds that artists talk a foreign tongue — think alien thoughts. That what they aim to do and how they aim to do it are matters absolutely outside his experience, or his comprehension. He finds that he just can’t get along with artists at all. Now, something will have to be done about this. Some way will have to be found to bridge the chasm between artist and merchant-manufacturer. Obviously the material for the structure will be mutual understanding. If the businessman can get some kind of clue to the artist’s mental processes — just a hint — he will be able to whip the artist’s contribution into shape to fit the merchandising scheme, and things will move along comfortably. This pamphlet undertakes to provide the clue.

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What is an artist?



What is an artist?

The study here undertaken proceeds from the business side of the problem. What we want to do is to arrive at a set of rules for guiding business men in their transactions with artists. The logical first step in the undertaking will be to find out what artists are like, why they behave as they do, what they think, how they perform. An artist is an anomaly in the present civilization because he is moved by a craving outside the universal and rational craving to make money. The impulse that moves an artist to use up his energy laboring toward an end not measurable in terms of money may be compared with the passion that might possibly move a business man to perfect an organization or to refine a process — without expecting, for the time being, any economic return from his effort. In the case of the business man such a passion would be kept within bounds, subordinated to this his main effort (i.e., his effort to increase the funds of himself or of his corporation). In the case of the artist the impulsion might not always be so controlled: in the case of the artist his urge to exercise his distinguishing faculty might very likely outrun and displace a craving for money. Proposition I.

The factors of prime importance to a man of business are (1) money, its movement toward him or away from him, and (2) men in terms of money, as removing money from him (employees), or bringing money to him (customers). An artist works, not with men and money, but with materials (i.e., actual substances, wood, metal, glass), with sensory impressions, and with ideas. II.

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Ettore Sottsass, Design for a Skyscraper in Dallas, 1983

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What is an artist?

Part of the impelling force that moves an artist along his peculiar line of effort is the pleasure he gets from manipulating materials or from marshaling ideas — the pleasure of seeing things take shape under his hand. A man of business may have this same kind of satisfaction, but in a less degree, because with him that kind of satisfaction will be held strictly subordinate to the satisfaction of accumulating funds. III.

19 An artist aims at a practical performance of the fabric he makes. If he makes a chair, his aim is to make a chair that people can sit in comfortably. It is hard for a business man to think of a fabric as fitted for a use, and sound in itself, (except when it is for his own use). The merchant-manufacturer thinks about his product as merchandise — something to sell; the artist thinks about his product as something to The designer of many Memphis be used. One measures it in units products was down to Ettore Sottsass of exchange value; the other meas- a man with influential, creative and rebellious ideas. He was responsible ures it in units of performance for the idea behind post modernism, a concept which allowed designers to be value. IV.

as loud and outrageous with their ideas. He didn't want to follow the crowd and make similar products to everyone else and so created some magnificent creations completely different to everything previous. The public was stunned at his ideas and so the idea caught on and became as we know it today as the Memphis movement. Without Ettore kick starting the trend, other designers would not have been brave enough to continue the ideas. That's why today many of a appliances and furniture can really vary in colour materials and shape.



Why does art have market value?



Why does art have market value?

Art (the product of artists) may occur in an abstract form, such as music or poetry. Abstract forms of art are not of any use to a business man. But art may be “applied” to the practical machinery of life (e.g., architecture) sometimes increasing the value of the machinery. Art in the applied form, therefore, comes within the range of commercial interest because it contributes value to merchandise. It is hard for a business-man to understand why art applied to the practical machinery of life should make that machinery more valuable. The value of an internal combustion engine will not be increased by having its parts designed according to one of the esthetic systems. But the value of the vehicle that the engine moves is increased if artistic taste enters into the vehicle’s design Why? V.

Artistic quality has commercial value because it panders to an owner’s pride. (As in the above instance: the stylish automobile gratifies the owner’s pride). One may stop with that. Other explanations on higher levels of human performance are of less practical value to the businessman. VI.

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What do artists value?



What do artists value?

If the artist is not inclined to appraise his product (art) in terms of dollars and cents by what standard does he appraise it? What value does he see in it? An artist’s estimate of the value of his product has no relation whatever to the commercial value of art. It is important here only because it throws a light upon the peculiarities of artists. An artist finds a value in the pleasant appearance of things. An object is valuable to him if its shape and proportions please his eye. This sense of grace and satisfactory proportion is not a faculty of artists alone; but in artists it is trained and developed more than in non-artists. The intrinsic value of the material of an object is of less moment to an artist than the object’s form, color, etc. Why, and how, the shape of an object valuable to him is another story, not pertinent to this discussion. VII.

An artist values “style” in a design or construction or performance. Style in this connection has a special meaning. There is a best way to strike a golf ball, to play tennis, to swim, to walk. In the realm of sport this best way is universally recognized as form. Transferred to the region of art this best way of doing things becomes style. Style is the simplest, the most graceful, the most forceful way to apply the effort and accomplish the end; style is, therefore, a quality of performance. It is also an end-product: objects have style according to the good fortune of their design. Locomotive engines, automobiles, ships, often have great style. A sense of the value of style is not confined to artists alone. IX. An artist finds value in a nice technical performance. VIII.

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The way the paint is laid on the canvas; the way the wood is cut by the carving tool — operations of that kind, when done simply by a sure hand, add value to an object in the eyes of an artist; they are contributory to the quality called style. These are examples of the standards of value that an artist uses in appraising his product. 28

Originally dubbed The New Design, the project was rechristened Memphis. Their solution was to continue the experiments with uncoventional materials, historic forms, kitsch motifs and gaudy colours begun by Studio Alchymia, the radical late 1970s Italian design group to which Sottsass and De Lucchi had belonged. When the young Jasper Morrison and a couple of thousand others crowded into Arc ’74 on 18 September 1981 they discovered furniture made from the flashily coloured plastic laminates emblazoned with kitsch geometric and leopard-skin patterns usually found in 1950s comic books or cheap cafés.


What do artists value?

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Arata Isozaki, Fuji cabinets, Memphis, 1981



Do artists think?



Do artists think?

It is assumed that an artist’s work calls for no use of the reasoning faculties — that he proceeds solely upon a basis of “feeling”, achieving his ends by intuition. This assumption is incorrect. The artist is a rational creature. His impulse to create work of art emerges first in the region of intuition; and intuitive choices and decisions operate throughout the process is directed and expanded by reason. The end aimed at is a rational end. (See Proposition IV) The fabric that an artist builds must perform in a practical way; otherwise he is not suited. The practicality is a result, partly of intuition, but mostly of rational study of the end to be served. Your proper artist is always half engineer. A sense of weights and stresses, of structural fitness, of the right handling of materials, is a much a part of an artist’s equipment as an intuitive sense of rhythmic spaces and graceful lines. If an artist is actually an artist — not a mere esthete — you may rest easy about his rationality. X.

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Memphis condominium from the sales packet located in New York in the E 60 Street, 1985


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How to choose an artist?



How to choose an artist?

Choosing the right artist is, of course, the critical operation of the whole technique of dealing with artists. Artists as a class are not trained in the details of a business procedure. An artist who can fit himself into the requirements of a commercial enterprise easily and at once is a rare specimen. The lack of standardization among artists, and the wide variety of manufacturing and merchandising requirements, make it impossible to lay down precise rules for choosing the right artist. The qualities that you require in any other agent are the qualities you want in an artist — plus his art. You are equipped to judge him as a man. Where you will stick will be in the effort to determine how much art he contains. Art values are beyond your ability to estimate, naturally. How arrive at a determination? If it is possible to be done, find out from organizations that have used artists how he performed in their service. Two or three dependable reports on this point are the only really practical aids toward making a choice. XI.

Do not lean too hard on reports from other artists. An artist may have a high standing in the estimation of his fellow artists and yet be something less than perfect when it comes to the observance of requirements that are commonplaces in the commercial world — such as delivery at a specific date. Unless you can find out how he actually performed face to face with a situation like your own, you have no solid facts to go upon. Base your decision on reports from people of your own kind. XII.

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Lacking a means for arriving at an estimate through channels of report, you are obliged to fall back upon your judgement of the artist as a man. If the artist strikes you as a person who would be apt to tell the truth, he may very likely tell you the truth about his artistic qualifications to meet your demand. An artist of real ability is usually a simple soul, not so good at one thing, and better, he is likely to tell you so. XIII.

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Find out, by stratagem, whether or not the candidate is conceited. A tone of confidence in an artist — an assurance about his ability within his function, even when this assurance manifests itself in a crude form — is a favorable sign rather than a drawback. But mere personal conceit, not based on any particular ability, is a sure indication that all attempts at cooperation will fail. The business man’s first impression will be that all artists are conceited. He will have to learn to distinguish between personal conceit — a fatal characteristic — and the kind of cockiness that able artists frequently exhibit — a self-assurance arising out of their independent professional position and their ignorance of the technique of staff organization.

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1. Michele De Lucchi, Guéridon Kristall, Memphis, 1981

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2. Peter Shire, Teapots, Memphis, 1980-83 3. Shiro Kuramata, Kyoto table, Memphis, 1983

If a candidate evinces craftiness and a tendency to evade, set him down as less an artist. Ability to dissemble and evade is an asset in commercial transactions, and the discovery of such qualifications in an artist might easily lead you to believe that he was thereby fitted for your purpose. It is a part of the peculiar hookup of the art process that such abilities are disabilities


How to choose an artist?

for an artist. The exigencies of his function force him to deal with his problems and materials in an absolutely honest and straightforward fashion. In art there is no such thing as an oblique approach. For this reason:

«It is no coincidence that the people who work for Memphis don't pursue a metaphysic aesthetic idea or an absolute of any kind, much less eternity» observed Sottsass. «Today everything one does is consumed. It is dedicated to life, not to eternity.»

Count a poker face a liability. An artist who is able to conceal his interest in your project behind a granite façade is very likely concealing other things — a consciousness of his inability to come to level with your requirements, for example. XVI.

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Do not base an estimate of an artist’s ability upon the state of his clothes. XVII.

Do not estimate an artist as lacking ability because he lacks address. Many very able artists are hardly to be distinguished from Boeotians when it comes to putting things into words, or carrying off a manner. Conversely: XVIII.

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Do not confuse the question of an artist’s art with the purely mechanical consideration of how well the jaws works. Treat the glib artist as you would treat any other candidate who held you bound by the spell of his eloquence. Struggle free, and precipitate the solution by dropping in a few whens and hows. XIX.

Having chosen your artist, treat him as you would treat a physician that you had consulted on a point of XX.

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health — not as a plumber that you had called in to stop a leak. Be sure that he understands the case thoroughly — and then take his medicine. Take it as he prescribes it. Do not try to see what result you can get by mixing two of the doses at half strength, and omitting a third. If his prescription fails to reach the spot, consult another doctor. 42

Ettore Sottsass & Masanori Umeda, Ginza, Casablanca, Carlton, Memphis, 1981


How to enlist an artist’s interest in a project?



How to enlist an artist’s interest in a project?

It is highly important to engage an artist’s interest in the project at the outset. This interest will be a large part of his motive power. An artist’s interest in the project may be enlisted by giving him a wide liberty of choices as to ways and means. If the indispensable features of a project can be marked down, and the artist then be given a free hand to accomplish those ends in his own way, the job will interest him. If, however, the artist is fenced in with a palisade of requirements that are not really essential to the main purpose of the the project — such things as your own personal whims, for example, and undigested prepossessions — his interest will begin at zero, and run into minus quantities. XXI.

After an artist’s interest is caught (by giving him the semblance of a free hand in working out details) modifications may be introduced without risk of a drop in his voltage, if the introduction is managed adroitly. His interest, aroused at the beginning, will carry him past thin places where modifications are introduced. He will not notice that the plan has been changed. Modifications can be made to seem to be merely slight alterations in his own proposals. Do not suggest all the changes at one tim; let them fall in one by one — on different days, if possible. XXII.

The amount of money that an artist is to receive for his work is not usually as forceful an agent for enlisting his interest as the details of the work itself. XXIII.

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How to maintain an artist’s interest in a project?



How to maintain an artist’s interest in a project?

In the case of a project that calls for considerable time in its execution the initial voltage is sure to drop as the work goes on. The fading interest needs to be revived from time to time. The best way to revive interest is to keep the artist in touch with the progress of the work in the shop or on the site. Trial proofs, trial specimens, photographs of advancing patterns, experimental data, all tend to keep the artist’s interest alive. XXIV.

If there are two or more projects to be undertaken in sequence, carry the artist’s interest over from job to job by sending him full data (photographs of finished work, specimens of the completed article, copies of the printed book, etc., etc.) concerning completed Project No.1, as he enters upon Project No. 2. In every case it is wise to show the artist how his design turns out as soon as the work is completed. When it happens repeatedly that an artist makes designs and sends them off into space and never hears of them again, his work seems to him futile and he loses interest. XXV.

(See Proposition IV: An artist is interested in the performance of his design.)

The dispatch of this “revival” material to an artist needs to be done systematically, as a regular part of the program — not left to the chance of somebody’s remembering to do it.

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How to lower the conceit of an artist?



How to lower the conceit of an artist?

To diminish an artist’s importance in his own eyes shape your discourse after this fashion. Suppose that you are talking to a celebrated sign-painter. Ask him: “Do you know Jones’ work in sign-painting? In my opinion Jones is the greatest sign-painter we have. The only others that approach him at all are ----- and ----- .” (Not mentioning the artists you are talking to.) Then proceed to describe various of Jones’ successes at great length. Few professionals can stand up to this ordeal. If the artist is of a lower order and will not wilt — but, instead, tries to prove that he also is a great sign-painter by showing you photographs of his master-pieces, run through his prints rapidly, without comment, and then take up the tale of Jones’ sign-painting again. The second injection will lower the artist’s conceit to zero. XXVI.

Little about Memphis was truly innovative. Most of its concepts had been trail-blazed by Alchymia. Yet the Memphis collaborators were much more adept at communicating their ideas and at manipulating Ettore Sottsass' contacts. He even persuaded Artemide, the Italian lighting manufacturer, to work with them. Within the design world, Memphis was a watershed. «You were either for it, or against it. All the boring old designers hated it. The rest of us loved it,» recalled Bill Moggridge, co-founder of the IDEO industrial design group. Among the old guard was Vico Magistretti. «This furniture offers no possibility of development whatsoever,» he declaimed. «It is only a variant of fashion.»

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How to commend an artist?



How to commend an artist?

If you like the work an artist shows you, do not try to express your approval in the form of apt technical comment. Confine yourself to the simple formula: “I like that”; or grunt in an approving way. Corollary. On the other hand you may use apt technical comments to give expression to a lukewarm interest: “I like the way you have managed the perspective in the the fly’s left foot,” etc. The artist will see that you care very little about it and will readily pass on to a discussion of batting-avarages, or whatever. XXVII.

Ettore Sottsass, Casablanca, Memphis, 1981

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How to flatter an artist?



How to flatter an artist?

Flattery is effective with artists of minor rank. As an artist’s ability rises in degree the effect of direct flattery diminishes. Some great artists are gluttons for flattery; but usually an artist of large dimensions has been fed so much of it that he can no longer taste it. In many cases no great degree of finesse is required; but speaking calls for a delicate touch and a sure hand. If the first encounter with an artist occurs in his workshop, ask to see his work — using the formula: “I’d like mighty well to see some of the stuff.” — not “Oh, won’t you show me some of your work,” etc. If you meet him in the world outside, use the formula: “So-and-so tells me I ought to get in touch with you and see some of the things you are doing,” etc. XXVIII.

At the first encounter do not mention other artists in the same line — or, if the names of other artists are introduced by the artist himself, deal with them briefly. XXIX.

Do not disparage the work of other artists in the same line under the mistaken impression that disparagement of his peers will flatter an artist. After you become acquainted with an artist you may discuss other artists freely. But, even in such free discussion, it is wise to let the artist himself take the lead in dismembering other artists — he XXX.

Memphis was seen as equally sensational outside the closed confines of the design community. The packed opening party, cool graphics and hip young designers — male and female, from different countries — proved irresistible to the mass media. Perfectly in tune with an era when pop culture was dominated by the post-punk flamboyance of early 1980s new romanticism, Memphis was also a colourful, clearly defined manifestation of the often obscure post-modernist theories then so influential in art and architecture.

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may secretly be flattered by your dissection of his contemporaries; but use the knife sparingly. When an artist shows you his work for the first time do not try to shape your comments along technical lines. Use the natural language God gave you. If, by a lucky fluke, you hit upon a point that is the artist’s particular pride, do not try to expand or amplify the fortunate stroke. Leave it just as it stands. Artists, flattering each other, use simple phraseology: “That’s bully” or “I like that” so-and-so. The less jaw-jaw the better. XXXI.

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An effective form of flattery, in case where the fee charged is really disproportionately small, is to add slightly to the amount of the artist’s charge. Coming in this way, in terms of the business man’s own standard of values, the approval is particularly emphatic. XXXII.


How to pay an artist?



How to pay an artist?

If an artist keeps up his end of the bargain, delivers his work promptly and gives general satisfaction, you will do well to separate his invoices from the usual sixty days dossier, and treat them as professional bills, e.i., cash on presentation. His receipt of prompt payment for work done promptly will give him a sense of action all along the line and will stimulate him to increased effort to make his end of the job snap. XXXIII.

65 Do not try to discipline an artist by holding up payment for his work. He will be irritated by the procedure, to be sure, but not in the way you intend, because he is not so sensitive in the region of the pocket-nerve as you may have anticipated. (See Proposition I) XXXIV.

If the artist is naive, money can be saved by having him make an agreement with you that you will pay for only such part of his work as you may accept and use. This will relieve you from paying for what is really the most time-consuming and laborious part of a designer’s job, namely, the preliminary study and preparation of alternative sketches and designs to clarify his plan. You can, of course, reject his finished workingdrawings when the study is complete, retaining careful memoranda of various valuable points developed. XXXV.

If the artist is young and inexperienced tell him that, while you can’t pay much for the design, it will be used widely and seen by millions of people: that the wide publicity will greatly benefit him. If the artist is very young this argument may induce him not to charge any fee at all. XXXVI.


George J. Sowden, Interior design, 1983

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How to pay an artist?

An older artist — particularly the kind that is engrossed by the technical details of his craft — may be induced to take less than his usual fee if you can contrive to make the commission highly interesting on its technical side (if it involves some novel and experimental manipulation, for example). It will be worth your while to surrender some point that you have insisted on — particularly a point that involves merely pride or stubbornness on you part — if the surrender will add some attractive technical feature to the project. XXXVII.

An artist of long experience whose work is in great demand will have arrived at a fixed scale of prices and cannot be influenced to change them. He will occasionally do work gratis if the spirit moves him. The spirit that moves him will be some peculiar feature of the project that engages his interest — but the feature will be too peculiar and unexpected for you to be able to contrive it in advance as bait. XXXVIII.

A simple way to get a lot of art (of a sort) for little or no outlay is to set up a Prize Competition for a given project. Some very excellent artists go in for Prize Competitions, but as a general rule the key men in a field have no time to bother and the designs that come in are second grade. Often a second grade design will be better for your purpose than a strictly first class article; and there will be Honorable Mentions to be saved for later use, and many good ideas that you can use not Mentioned at all. XXXIX.

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