David Root: Designer and artist, We met in the late 1960’s, I knew him by his reputation as one of the most successful graphic designers in Chicago, with clients like Ravina, and the Chicago Flower Show.
David designed events in public spaces. He was also the king of Helvetica type, a font I could barely stand.
David gave me an amazing gift, after he died; his partner sent me several sleeves of color transparencies. I had always been the photographer in our little creative click, and he assumed they were mine. I studied the images, and to my shock they were all of me, carefully edited, visually telling my life.
I worked so hard at being invisible, unnoticed, the outsider observing and documenting everyone else, I had no idea that David cared enough about me to document me for almost 30 years.
David designed events in public spaces. He was also the king of Helvetica type, a font I could barely stand.
David gave me an amazing gift, after he died; his partner sent me several sleeves of color transparencies. I had always been the photographer in our little creative click, and he assumed they were mine. I studied the images, and to my shock they were all of me, carefully edited, visually telling my life.
I worked so hard at being invisible, unnoticed, the outsider observing and documenting everyone else, I had no idea that David cared enough about me to document me for almost 30 years.
