The Other Way Evokes Deep, New Feelings About Life on Earth
David Trubridge, a pre-eminent designer based in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, calls The Other Way his love letter to the land. As Kennedy Warne writes in the introduction, “It is also a visual poem. David’s eye for texture and detail, the dance of light and shadow across a landscape and the interplay of the myriad hues of nature’s palette have yielded pictures that are simply a joy to view. From fractured planes of ice to burnished copper reflections on water, from Kandinsky-patterned rocks in the Pilbara to the weathered grain of an Italian door, image after image sings the land’s song. Can one be suffocated by beauty? David tests that thought.”
When David invited me to talk with him, I was thrilled. We have a curious overlay: David went to Antarctica in 2004 when I was a Fulbright Fellow at Gateway Antarctica in Christchurch, New Zealand. So we were both very ice-focused at precisely the same time in the same place on the globe. The Other Way begins our journeys with David on The Ice — it is designed as a narrative from light to darkness, so of course we begin with David, in Antarctica, taking in all the white light.
Join us for an in-person discussion on June 27 at the Ferry Building
If you are in San Francisco on June 27, 2022, come ’round and hear me and David chat about his gorgeous new book – a shimmery eco-reflection by one of the world’s preeminent designers. https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/book-launch-the-other-way-by-david-trubridge-with-leslie-roberts-registration-332736071547 #Design #Books