Design and music intersect in many areas, yet one relatively obscure but creative area is in the design of graphic notation by composers.
Edward Bawden created illustrated maps and structural lithographs from the 1920s to the 60s, with Kew Gardens and London's markets among his favourite subjects
Art can inspire a person to create great things. And sometimes those great things are memes. And sometimes those memes are so good, they end up on the r/TrippinThroughTime subreddit.
He rescued Adam and Eve from obscurity, devised the doctrine of original sin—and the rest is sexual history.
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT.
Le Tchèque František Kupka, un des grands artistes du XXe siècle, a connu peu de rétrospectives. Celle du Grand Palais est une occasion à ne pas manquer pour appréhender l'ensemble de la riche carrière d'un des inventeurs de l'art non figuratif, qui n'a jamais cessé ses recherches sur la couleur et les formes (jusqu'au 30 juillet 2018).
How Great design can increase content marketing conversions. This is how great creative design is one of the keys to converting readers into brand advocates
A Dash of Inspiration, A Cup of Creativity by Doreen In any ‘industry’, success means many things, but one of those is to understand the ‘language’ of the industry and be ab…
Astrazione is the new series of illustrations by Riccardo Guasco, a project that pays homage to art and the history of its protagonists.
Our class recently spent some time studying one of my favorite concepts to teach, Gestalt theory. Gestalt theory refers to the brain’s need to make sense of the world around it. Our brains ma…
With their intricate line and often ghoulish tone, the works of Irish artist Harry Clarke are amongst the most striking in the history of illustration and stained glass design. Kelly Sullivan explores how, unknown to many at the time, Clarke took to including his own face in many of his pictures.
Jill Lepore on the history of privacy.
Austrian physician Stefan Jellinek (May 29, 1871 – September 2, 1968) founded The Electro-Pathological Museum in 1936. He provided the content seen in the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern (Electrical Protection in 132 Pictures). Death and electricity went hand-in-hand. But with this book, you would be forewarned. If you can identify all the contraptions, let us … Continue reading "Incredible Illustrations From ‘Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (1936)"
The head of the festival that awards comics’ most prestigious prize – the Grand Prix – claimed that women don’t appear in the history of comics. He’s wrong
Illustrations from Vaught's Practical Character Reader, a book on phrenology by L. A. Vaught published in 1902.
Neville Brody is an accomplished graphic designer and an expert in typography. His work is well known throughout the graphic design industry.
We’re all familiar with the “Communist aesthetic”—its bold graphics, hyperrealism, and often stark color schemes. Less familiar is the tender side of this ideology. In The Gay Agenda: Homoeroticism in Communist Propaganda, a provocative online discussion last month between film historian Bader AlAwa
Errol Le Cain is the perfect example of the magic that happens when cultures collide. Growing up in Singapore, India, and London, the British illustrator started inventing his fantasy worlds as early as early as age 11, weaving in elements of Moorish symmetry, Indonesian shadow puppets, and Baroque
The exhibit After the Fall reveals the radicalism—and other political views—behind much of the decade’s painting.
Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons is a graphic novel trilogy telling an alternative history of the women's suffrage movement in London in 1914. The
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amare-habeo: Koloman Moser, Ver sacrum (1898) Unknown Poster Drawing for the first big art exhibition of Secession
Brush up on your history and get to know the women who have changed the art world forever.
Felix Vallotton, a Swiss/French painter and printmaker was associated with the Nabis and created beautiful and powerful prints.
This is the story of Alphonse Mucha, the artist who was arrested by the Gestapo and succumbed to the physical distress after being interrogated. It was a tragedy.
Charlotte Salomon created hundreds of paintings while hiding from the Nazis.
Of Belgian and Dutch origins, Georges de Feure was largely self-taught as an artist. He was born Georges Joseph van Sluijters in Paris, where his father worked as an architect. Returning with his f…
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Songsheet of 'The March of the Women', 1911. Songsheet in the suffragette colours of purple, green and white, showing women and children marching with the banner of the Women's Social and Political...
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Those Amazing Plakatstil Posters! Hans Rudi Erdt When we look at retro posters there can be no more of an amazing story than what happened to a 15 year old in 1898 Berlin Germany. His name was Lucian Bernhard and after attending an exhibition of interior decoration he was amazed by the lavish colors he had experienced throughout the show. Dumbstruck with enthusiasm for these avant-garde colors, Lucian decided to paint his father’s home interiors in the bright paints he was so moved by. His father, retuning from a three-day trip was shocked at what Lucien had done. Not amused, his father named his son a criminal causing young Lucian to flee his home. Trying desperately to support himself on his own, this self-taught young artist eventually decided to enter a poster contest for Priester matches in 1905. The original poster design was an ashtray with lighted cigar and a box of matches on a tablecloth. Lucian eventually felt the image was too bare and he painted dancing girls in the background rising out of the smoke. Further examination later that day, he decided that the image was too complicated so he painted the girls out. Even later that evening a friend dropped by and asked if it was a poster for a cigar. That motivated Bernhard to paint out the cigar. The young artist also decided that the tablecloth and ashtray stood out to prominently and painted those out as well. What was left? Just matches a on bare table. With time running out on the contest deadline Bernard quickly painted the word Priester above the matches in blue and got the poster off to the competition that needed to be postmarked by midnight. The poster and advertising in general was about to have a ground breaking change. The story gets even more amazing! It was eventually leaked out that all of the entries were first thrown in the trash and completely rejected by all the jurors. If one of the group had not arrived late the history of poster design would have been quite different. Ernst Growald of the Hollerbaum and Schmidt lithography firm convinced the jurors that one of the designs in the trash was worthy of reconsideration. Holding up Bernhard’s poster Growald lectured the group, “This is my first prize. Here is a genius!” The design went on to become the famous Priester matches poster which was a formula that would be repeated many times over. A simple, direct reduction of shapes and a word. A design approach that is still used with the advantage of running as tiny as a postage stamp and as large as a billboard. This design school of flat shapes and simple color became known as the Plakatstil (poster style) of Germany in the early twentieth century. Bernhard used this approach in next two decades of his career. He designed over 300 packages for the firm and influenced five other graphic designers to come on board with them. What followed was an amazing array of product logo posters that eventually made its way to America in 1923. Oddly enough, it was five years before he received any poster commissions. No doubt German poster art would eventually play a significant role in the language of American advertising.
I’ve had the good fortune to be part of the W.A. Dwiggins circle for more than three decades. And I’m privileged to have authored a foreword to the new book W.A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design by Bruce Kennett, published by Letterform Archive. The book, which was funded through Kickstarter, is now available in deluxe and regular editions. Both are beautiful and, more importantly, provide a history of the polymath who gave breadth to graphic design. Despite the erroneous long-held
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