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Paul Rand (1914 -1996) – Designer who led the way

On: March 24, 2023

Tagged: artist, business, colorful, creative, creativity, Design, Designer, draw, graphic, logo, man, packaging, professional, studio, Typography, work

Paul Rand, was a seminal figure in graphic design who made innovative visual identities for some of America’s major corporations and book and magazine publishers

We all have seen the designs of Paul Rand at some stage of our lives. He had a career spanning nearly seven decades. There is the seminal logo for IBM and the logo for ABC. There is the Westinghouse logo, the logo for NeXT computers. There are posters and packaging, book covers, record covers and a multitude of magazine covers.Read More →

Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) – Symbolism and Metaphor

On: March 19, 2023

Tagged: Art, artist, artwork, beautiful, beauty, cartoon, celebration, color, colorful, culture, decoration, Design, elegant, Fashion, female, floral, flower, girl, halloween, illustration, mexican, mexico, retro, style, surrealism, Top 10 - week ending April 15, Top 10 - week ending April 23, traditional, vintage, woman

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist that lived most of her life and physical pain, yet she continued to paint until her death, her artwork records her suffering and experiences as a woman. She was born to a Mexican mother and a German father.Read More →

Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) British wood engraver & ceramicist

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: artist, British, British - Ceramics, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Ceramic Design, ceramics - british

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II. Ravilious studied with Edward Bawden and Charles Mahoney at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 1928. He painted a series of marionette-like murals for Morley College, which were destroyed by bombing in 1941.Read More →

Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese Artist and Designer

On: January 3, 2023

Tagged: artist, Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Nara grew up in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, about 300 miles north of the Tochigi Prefecture. His exposure to Western music on the American military radio station Far East Network in Honshu influenced his artistic imagination early. Later, he would provide cover art for bands including Shonen Knife, R.E.M., and Bloodthirsty Butchers.Read More →

Hannah Hoch's 1925 "Equillibre," or Balance," was originally titled "America Balancing Europe."

Dada Art Movement – Making Mischief

On: August 14, 2022

Tagged: Abstract, Art, art movement, artist, artistic, concept, conceptual, creative, Design, design movement, Design Style, Design Term, geometric, graphic, style, surrealism

As a designer, I am passionate about the history of art and their influence on ‘visual design.’ In art history, Dada is the artistic movement that preceded Surrealism, it began in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916 by a group of mostly painters and painters. Dada artworks challenged the preconceived notions of what art meant. Many Dadaists felt that the way to salvation was through political anarchy, the natural emotions, the intuitive and the irrational.Read More →

Roger Fry (1866 – 1934) British painter, writer, art critic and designer

On: July 2, 2022

Tagged: Art, art critic, artist, British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Design, design critic, workshop

Roger Fry was a British painter, writer, art critic, designer, and lecturer. He was born in London. Between 1885 – 1890, he studied natural sciences, Cambridge University, and Académie Julian, Paris, 1892. Read More →

The Innocent Eye Test

On: June 26, 2022

Tagged: Art, artist, Book

“The Innocent Eye Test” (1981) is perhaps the best-known work of Mark Tansey and oneRead More →

William Merritt Chase (1849 – 1916) American Artist and Teacher

On: January 17, 2022

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, artist, artists, design education

He settled in New York in 1878; subsequently, he taught at Art Students’ League, New York, in 1896. He established the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (sometimes referred to as Chase School of Art). Read More →

Charles Burchfield his early watercolours

On: January 16, 2022

Tagged: American artist 🇺🇸, artist

Burchfield was pegged, to some degree, as a regionalist; however, he was working with his personal form of realism. He rejected the regionalist moniker; instead, he viewed himself as an American artist.Read More →

Javier Mariscal (b.1950) Spanish designer and Graphic Artist

On: November 30, 2021

Tagged: artist, barcelona, Designer, Exhibition, Furniture, graphic artist, Spanish design | Design Topic, Spanish designer/s | Design Topic, Spanish furniture | Design Topic

Javier Mariscal is a Spanish designer. He was born in Valencia. He is professionally active in Barcelona. He studied at the Escuela de Grafismo Elisava, Barcelona, to 1971.Read More →

Winold Reiss (1886-1953) German artist and designer

On: November 26, 2021

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, artist, cubism, German Designers 🇩🇪, Interior Design, interior designer, native american

Influenced by the international modern art movements that had recently swept across Europe, he blended cubism, which used geometric shapes to create abstract images, and fauvism, which favoured the use of bold colours to suggest shapes, with interest in ethnography to create a unique style of portraiture that sought to reveal the subject more thoroughly than the simple rendering of physical features.Read More →

Nikolai Mikhailovich Suetin Russian artist, ceramicist and designer

On: September 6, 2021

Tagged: Architect, artist, Ceramic Design, Design, designs, graphic, graphic design, graphic designer, history, russian, russian art, russian design, russian designer, suprematist

Nikolai Mikhailovich Suetin (1897-1954) was a Russian artist, ceramicist, and designer. He was born in Metlevsk Station Kaluga. He was the husband of Anna Leporskaia. Between 1918-22, he studied Vitebsk Art School. He became a member of Kazimir Malevich’s Posnovis/Unovis group in 1919, and, with Il’ia Chashnik, was one of Malevich’s closest collaborators. Read More →

6 Works That Explain Yayoi Kusama’s Rise to Art World Stardom

On: June 8, 2021

Tagged: artist, Japanese, japanese artist, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

In 1965, Kusama erected the first of her now-famous immersive environments. Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (Floor Show) fused her interests in repetition, sexual exploration, psychology, and perception by filling a roughly 25-square-meter mirrored room with a thick carpet of soft, twisting phalluses camouflaged in the artist’s signature polka dots.Read More →

William Morris – Beauty of Practicality

On: June 5, 2021

Tagged: Abstract, Architect, Architecture, Art, artist, artwork, attractive, beautiful, colorful, creative, creativity, Design, Designer, drawing, graphic, graphic designer, hand, illustration, man, modern, pattern, professional, texture, vintage, William Morris

Morris believed his responsibility was “to revive a sense of beauty in home life, to restore the dignity of art to household decoration.Read More →

Elegantly Surreal Portraits Of Blue Women From Montreal

On: March 2, 2021

Tagged: Art, artist, Female Portraits, Photography

“Blue Gals” is a series by Montreal-based artist Etienne Dufresne featuring models with blue skin going about everyday activities. For this artist, shooting his strange portraits is a way to bring to life the characters he drew in school while growing up.Read More →

Emily LaBarge on Erin O’Keefe

On: March 1, 2021

Tagged: artist, cubism, de stijl, Josef Albers

The wrongness of images, or our apperceptions of them: What appears to be a painting is actually a photograph. What appear to be two-dimensional painted lines, curves, rectangles, arabesques, planes of color, or abstract geometries with trompe l’oeil shadows are in fact three-dimensional objects carefully arranged, brightly illuminated, and flattened into a beguiling single plane by the lens of a camera.Read More →

Lust, heartbreak and suggestive sculpture: was this art’s greatest love triangle?

On: February 26, 2021

Tagged: artist, Black Mountain College, designers, news

The sensual American graffitist Cy Twombly, who lived in Italy from the late 1950s until his death in 2011, lushly inscribed his epic canvases with love poetry – Shelley and Keats, Cavafy and Catullus. The work was like an abstract expressionist Valentine’s card.Read More →

Painting by Other Means

On: February 26, 2021

Tagged: American artist 🇺🇸, artist, Black Mountain College, painter

Painter James Bishop has died at age 93. His lyrical abstractions juxtapose fields of colour or expanses of primed and painted canvas. He often worked on found materials, displaying careful attention to his substrate’s surface. In an essay for our October 2008 issue, artist and critic Joe Fyfe responded to a retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago that centred Bishop’s work on paper. “Bishop’s paintings on paper arise from a carefully determined process and an openness to accident,” Fyfe writes. “Working on a small scale, often in series, he achieves a gentle grandeur.”Read More →

Ida Ekblad Norwegian genre crossing artist

On: February 25, 2021

Tagged: Art, artist, norwegian designer, paint, painting

Ida Ekblad’s practise incorporates painting and sculpture but also poetry, filmmaking and performance. The NorwegianRead More →

The Chariot of Apollo by Odilon Redon 1905-16

Odilon Redon’s Classic paintings Capture Logic of Invisible

On: January 23, 2021

Tagged: Art, artist, French Artist, French Designer 🇫🇷

Odilon Redon, the artist who at the age 73 outsold all but Marcel Duchamp at the 1913 Armory Show of “Modern French Art” in New York City.Read More →

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