ALAN FLETCHER: "I DON´T DIVIDE MY LIFE BETWEEN LABOUR AND PLEASURE"

Alan Fletcher is dead.

He was one of the five founders of Pentagram and one of the world's greatest designers.

Michael Bierut writes in Design Observer:

Colin Forbes deserves the credit for inventing Pentagram's unique organizational structure, which has endured now for nearly 35 years.

But it was Alan Fletcher who showed by example, across three decades, how one could work, and live, within that structure.

For him, design was not a profession or a craft, but a life.

In an interview for his 1996 book Beware Wet Paint, he told Rick Poynor:

"I'd sooner do the same on Monday or Wednesday as I do on a Saturday or Sunday. I don't divide my life between labour and pleasure."

The title of another book from Pentagram could serve as a concise statement of his philosophy: Living by Design.