Saturday 4th February 2012
We recently finished this poster for the new exhibition Richter Scale at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. A folded mailer edition included press release written by Pulitzer Prize winning Art Critic for the New York Times Holland Cotter on the reverse. A second run was printed one side on heavy stock. The show runs until December 30.
Here in Miami we are happy to announce we have moved to our new office in Midtown.
We just got our first project for Design Box back from the printer. This invitation is a 16x12” poster printed on uncoated natural stock with two special inks, gold and fluorescent pink.
American photographer Mitchell “Mitch” Epstein was born in 1952 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In the early 1970s he studied at the Cooper Union, where he was a student of black-and-white photographer Garry Winogrand. After Winogrand brought photographer William Eggleston to his class, Epstein was inspired to produce colour photographs which at the time were considered a tool of advertising. Epstein later helped pioneer the redefinition of colour photography as an art form. By the mid-1970s, Epstein had abandoned his academic studies and begun to travel, embarking on a photographic exploration of the United States.
Ludwig Hohlwein (1874 -1949) was a poster artist, graphic designer, architect and painter. He is counted alongside Lucian Bernhard, Ernst German-Dryden, Hans Rudi Erdt and Julius Klinger as one of the most prominent, and an influential representatives of the art of advertising. After studying in Munich and Dresden, and study tours to London and Paris he settled down in Munich as an architect. From 1904 Hohlwein regularly presented prints, watercolors and tempera paintings in the Munich Glass Palace. His signature style is easily recognisable and it varied little over his 40 year career. The drawing was perfect, his figures full of touches of color and a play of light and shade that brings them out of their background and gives them substance. He is said to have been inspired by the work of the British duo the Beggarstaffs who virtually created the modern poster, with clear outlines and large areas of flat colour.
Born in Milan 1940, Italian graphic designer Armando Milani studied with Albe Steiner at the Società Umanitaria. In 1970 he founded Milani Design studio with his younger brother Maurizio, and in 1977 moved to New York where, after a collaboration for two years with Massimo Vignelli he opened his own studio. He specialises in logos and branding but is best known for his simple but powerful poster designs.
Max Huber (1919–92) was an influential Swiss graphic designer with close links to a circle of brilliant artists, designers and intellectuals such as Josef Muller-Brockmann, Achille Castiglioni, Werner Bischof, Albe Steiner, and Carlo Vivarelli. At the end of WWII he moved to Milan where he produced some of his most iconic and influential designs. Huber’s work was consistently innovative, and by combining painting and photography with other graphic media, he remained avant-garde throughout his career, bringing the utopian vision of the modern masters to bear on corporate typography and identity design.