Australian Fabric Designer – John Rodriquez
2021-08-28
John Rodriquez became well known for his textile designs in the early 1950’s. He introduced a unique Australian Style. Read More →
Mid-Century Modernism – Fresh Optimism in Design
2021-08-06
Designers were motivated by a fresh optimism after WWII and the new materials, production techniques, and colours arriving in unique shapes. In more inexpensive and easily mass-produced designs, a more relaxed, fleshed-out style of Modernism began to develop.Read More →
Design History – 40s & 50s the age of the Graphic Designer
2021-08-04
The 1940s and 1950s the age of the Graphic Designer. Designers, illustrators, and artists used their talents to disseminate information.Read More →
1950s bathroom designed by Marcel Breuer
2021-07-10
Index: abc | def | ghi | jkl | mno | pqr | stu |Read More →
Paris and Art in 1950s – influence on design
2021-04-22
Paris, newly liberated from the German occupation, sprung to life during the 1950s as aRead More →
Benno Premsela (1920 – 1997) Dutch textile and exhibition designer
2021-02-19
Benno Premsela (1920 – 1997) was a Dutch textile and exhibition designer. He studied interior design at the Nieuwe Kunstschool, Amsterdam. Read More →
Helen Abson Australian Architect and Fabric Designer
2021-02-02
Helen Abson, who trained as an architect, is an Australian designer. She pursued architecture for five years; founded ZAB Design where she designed fabrics that exhibited a preoccupation for texture achieved through pattern and colour.Read More →
Pure, perfect Pulp Fiction Book Art Covers
2020-10-21
The rise of “pulp fiction” in the United States began as a flashy offshoot of the sudden and unprecedented democratization of reading that followed the upheavals of the Civil War. Soaring literacy rates among the working class joined with new technologies of paper production, created a thriving market for accessible, entertaining stories in an inexpensive, portable format. Read More →