Saturday 4th February 2012

Entries filed under Colour

Jan Maarten Voskuil

Posted on 02/06/10.

We don’t know much about Jan Maarten Voskuil, other than he is Dutch, and we love this series of work “There is no point”.

Link: http://members.chello.nl/j.voskuil2/

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The new Pantone Plus Series

Posted on 19/05/10.

This video gives a rare and amazing inside look at Pantone and the development of the new Plus Series.

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Polaroid SX-70 film

Posted on 17/05/10.

Following on from our portraits of Edwin Land – founder of Polaroid – this is an amazing film by Charles and Ray Eames about the SX-70 Land camera. A folding SLR and the first to use Polaroid’s automatic format integral film, which didn’t need to be separated from its back after being removed from the camera. Incredible.

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Anton Stankowski

Posted on 10/05/10.

Anton Stankowski (June 18, 1906 - December 11, 1998) was a German graphic designer, photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. His work is noted for straddling the camps of fine and applied arts by synthesising information and creative impulse. He was inspired by the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Malevich and Kandinsky. Stankowski advocated graphic design as a field of pictorial creation that requires collaboration with free artists and scientists. Despite producing many unique examples of concrete art and photographics, Stankowski is best known for designing one of our favourite icons, the simple trademark of the Deutsche Bank.

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Fred Herzog

Posted on 30/04/10.

We first became aware of Fred Herzog’s photography during a trip to Vancouver, where the photographer lives and works. He was born and grew up in Stuttgart, but was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombardment of the Second World War and moved to Canada in 1952. His work focuses primarily on “ordinary” people, the working class, and their connections to the city around them. He worked primarily with slide film (mostly Kodachrome), which limited his ability to exhibit, and also marginalized him somewhat as an artist in the 1950s and 60s when most work was in Black and White. Thanks heavens he didn’t follow the crowd, he captured amazing decisive moments with incredibly vivid and colourful results.

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Pneumatici

Posted on 26/04/10.

A classic poster from 1963 by design legend Massimo Vignelli. The Italian once has said, “If you can design one thing, you can design everything,” and this is reflected in his broad range of work ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage… Vignelli works firmly within the Modernist tradition, and focuses on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all of his work.

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Helga Steppan

Posted on 26/04/10.

This reminded us of an exploded version of the Michael Johansson work we featured in January. These photos are by fellow Swede Helga Steppan. In her series ‘See Through’ Steppan audited all of her belongings and divided them into a full spectrum of different colour groupings to photograph: White, Black, Yellow, Red, Miscellaneous, Blue, Orange, Green, Pink, Grey, Purple, and Brown. We like this idea of having things chromatically arranged.

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