Friday 18th May 2012
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.
This classic is a book cover for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, designed by one of our favourites Wim Crouwel in 1966. It doesn’t get much better than this.
ELSKEN, ED VAN DER - Sweet Life.1966. Cloth-covered boards (hardcover), illustrated dustjacket (with protective mylar), 29 x 29 cms., (32) pp. text in Dutch + 179 fine black-and-white plates in photogravure.
We just came across this book and its fantastic cover in a local thrift store. A “break” in the Lindy Hop is shown in this high-speed action picture taken in 1943 by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. Dancers Kaye Popp and Stanley Catron demonstrate the dance, named originally for Lindbergh’s 1927 flight to Paris. Also seen here is another image from the same series. More to come from the great Gjon Mili soon, watch this space.
Rounding off March nicely our work for Dorsch Gallery was featured on the Creative Review blog. There is a nice description of the work by CR Senior Writer Gavin Lucas, and a quote from our Creative Director. Creative Review magazine was launched in London in 1980 and is the leading visual communication journal. It now has subscribers in over 80 countries and readers online in over 120.
Link: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/march/dorsch-gallery-identity
Henry Wolf was an Austrian-born American graphic designer, photographer and art director best known for his art direction of Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and Show magazines in the 1950s and ‘60s. He worked with photographers Melvin Sokolsky, Art Kane, and one of our favourites Richard Avedon, before launching his own photography studio in New York’s Upper East Side. Although most famous for his magazine covers, we like this is a double page spread advert for Papermate.
Simple, strong and bold design for these manual covers for Nikon circa late 70s early 80s represents a product that will last (they are still in use today) as well as giving focus and unity across all their range. Great stuff.
Here in Miami we just had a sneak peak at these two new shows opening at Dorsch Gallery tonight and they look great. The artists are Elisabeth Condon whose book we worked on last year and Martin Murphy. Also looking great are the templates we created for these mailers, if we do say so ourselves (see our Branding section for more images). Dorsch Gallery have some very exciting shows planned for this year so make sure to keep them bookmarked.