Saul Bass fue uno de esos artistas a los que casi todo el mundo conoce y admira de una forma indirecta, aunque no sepan exactamente de quién se trata ni a qué dedicó gran parte de su vida. Y es que quizá haya muchas personas a las que el nombre de Saul Bass no les diga gran cosa..
Celebrating Women in Design: Susan Kare, the woman who created the Mac smile and many now iconic icons for Mac and others.
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Very few people have had the ability to reach and affect the masses like American graphic designer Saul Bass. It’s likely that you’ve encountered his work without even knowing it. For starters, he created the opening credits of Steve McQueen’s racing epic, Grand Prix, a film I’m certain most Petrolisti have seen...
Artwork by Ernst Deutsch n December 1911, Typewriter Topics' European director, London-based multilingual Luxembourger Jacques Gustave Hemes, was inspired to write a feature article for Topics on the subject of typewriter advertising in Germany. Hemes made particular reference to colourful posters ("dullness being entirely absent"), saying they were "works of art and of good taste". How right he was. The typewriter posters were high points in what came to be known as the "golden age of poster art" in Germany, evoking names such as Bernhard, Deutsch-Dryden and Erdt. The main illustration for Hemes' report in Topics, above, marked the first appearance outside Germany of Austrian-born Ernst Deutsch's famous Mercedes typewriter poster, one of the most popular examples of typewriter-related artwork ever created. (Hemes' full report can be seen at the bottom of this post, and includes a selection of advertising artwork for Swift, Torpedo and Continental typewriters.) Ernst Deutsch The beautiful, seemingly blushing red-dressed lady was used by Deutsch (later Ernst Dryden) to help Mercedes promote its new standard model, the No 3, launched in 1911: Deutsch was particularly fond of the red-dressed lady in shiny black shoes during this period, also using her for posters to promote a number of other events and products. He even doubled her up (and used the same typewriter, table and chair) for the cover of the sheet music for Mercedes Girl (Mercedes Mädel), a waltz by Francesco Fanciulli. Deutsch was born in Vienna on August 3, 1887. A commercial artist and graphic designer in Berlin in the years immediately before World War I, he was "one of the protagonists of the new style in poster art, with Julius Klinger and Lucian Bernhard". In 1916 he changed his name to Dryden (possibly in reverence of American illustrator Helen Dryden), returned to Vienna, then moved to Paris. The change in his signature on his artwork is illustrated here: Deutsch (left) Dryden (right) In 1929 Deutsch-Dryden settled in New York and worked for Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Marshall Field's, designing for the emerging market of mass clothing. In 1933 he became a costume designer in Hollywood, working for Universal, Columbia and Selznick. Deutsch-Dryden died of a heart attack in his villa in Hollywood on March 17, 1938, five days after Hitler invaded Austria. Other notable works by Deutsch-Dryden included: Deutsch-Dryden was not the first of the great Austro-German poster artists of the period to work for Mercedes. That honour was claimed in 1910 by Hans Lindenstaedt (1874-1928) with this poster, illustrating the demountability of the Model 2: As with Deutsch, Lindenstaedt worked alongside Hans Rudi Erdt (March 31, 1883-May 24, 1918), contributing to the Sachplakat* movement started by Lucian Bernhard at the prestigious Hollerbaum und Schmidt art printing company, along with Edmund Edel, Julius Klinger, Julius Gipkens, Paul Scheurich and Karl Schulpig. Erdt is recognised for his innovative use of typography in posters. (The drop-letter "i" at the top of this post is taken from Deutsch-Dryden's work on a Bugatti poster.) *Object poster; also Plakatstil = "poster style"; plakat = poster. Plakatstil used reductive imagery and flat colours; Sachplakat restricted the image to simply the object being advertised and the brand name. Lucian Bernhard Among typewriter poster artists, Lucian Bernhard (March 15, 1883-May 29, 1972) is best known for his highly distinctive work for the Adler Model 7. His poster typography is said to have inspired Hermann (aka Heinz) Hoffmann to create the Block Berthold (aka Bloc) typeface in 1908: Hoffmann's Bloc font Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer and artist. He was born in Stuttgart on March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn, but changed his name in 1905. Though he studied briefly at the Akademie in Munich, he was largely self-taught. He moved to Berlin in 1901, where he worked as a poster designer and art director for magazines. From 1920 he was a professor at the Akademie der Künste until 1923, when he emigrated to New York City. In 1928 he opened the Contempora Studio with Rockwell Kent, Paul Poiret, Bruno Paul and Erich Mendelsohn, working as a graphic artist and interior designer. After 1930 he worked primarily as a painter and sculptor until his death on May 29, 1972. Perhaps my own favourite Mercedes typewriter poster is this one: It is the work of August Hajduk (born July 1, 1880, Bad Gleichenberg, Styria; died 1918?), an Austria-Hungarian graphic artist, portraitist, illustrator and typographer. Hajduk first studied at the Graz Zeichenakademie and in 1900 moved to Wilhelm von Rümann's school of sculpture in Munich. From 1907 he worked in Berlin for department store chain A. Jandorf & Co, creating the artwork for first full-page newspaper advertisements. In 1910 he designed for the Bauer Type Foundry in Frankfurt the font Haiduk-Antiqua. Hajduk was an assigned war artist in World War I and was last heard from in 1918. The full Typewriter Topics story by Hemes:
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A designer and educator, Muriel Cooper charted new territory for design in the changing landscape of electronic communication. In 1994, she was awarded an AIGA Medal.
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Exquisitely hand-carved, this pair depicts a Greek legend. Zeus fell in love with the huntress Callisto, and she bore him a son named Arcas. In a fit of jealous rage, Zeus's wife turned Callisto into a bear. Time passed, and one day Arcas was out hunting. How was he to know that the bear he was stalking was his own mother?! On seeing that Callisto's life was in danger, Zeus whisked her up into the night sky out of harm's way. She can still be seen in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
A Notes on Design series on design icons begins with the work of Otl Aicher, the famous designer who invented icons for wayfinding, toilets, and sports.
