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The thirty-one winners of the inaugural Chicago International Poster Biennial are currently on display until October 29th in Chicago's lovely Daley Bicentennial Park, just off to the side of Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion and across the bridge designed by Gehry as well. Below are images of the exhibition, and if you haven't had a chance do check the winners over at Design Observer. Congratulations to the organizers for what is hopefully a long-standing competition.
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After the Russian revolution in 1917 and the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, cinema played an important role in the dissemination of propaganda for the Bolsheviks, thrusting a large number of Russian movies produced during the 1920s and early 1930s as well as an increase in film imports from other countries. Georgii (1900 – 1933) and Vladimir (1899 – 1982) Stenberg — who both studied engineering and then dabbled in theater set and costume design, architecture and sculpture — designed many of the accompanying posters to these movies. Their work was a fusion of Constructivism, Dadaist photomontage, and their unique approach of creating new and original images — more evocative than descriptive — constructed to represent the movie through the use of expressive typography, geometric forms, minimalist illustrations and their distinctive technique of recreating photographs by hand, a result of the limited printing processes that could not reproduce black and white photographs to the desired size of their posters. The Stenberg brothers produced posters together until 1933, when Georgii died in a motorcycle accident. A dubious end as expressed by his brother, who blamed the secret police, as Joseph Stalin had set his standards against Constructivism, and reprimanded artists who abided by it.
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In 1982 the Center for Design and Typography at The Cooper Union (which I believe was the precursor to the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography that was established in 1985) published its first Type & Technology Monograph on the development of Matthew Carter's Bell Centennial — the type family he developed in 1976 for AT&T when he was commissioned by Mike Parker, Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler, to update Bell Gothic, the typeface designed by Chauncey H. Griffith and used in the company's phone books since 1937. Carter was kind enough to lend us a copy of this hard-to-find booklet for our research on Bell Centennial, here are some photographic highlights.
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One of the most gratifying perks of working on Graphic Design Referenced — aside from the unbelievably intense pressure of writing 400 pages and making sure we don't tell any lies — has been the opportunity to interact with many of the design artifacts we are featuring: We now have a healthy collection of 1960s Playboy magazines, 1980s The Face, LP albums from the 1970s, a Lufthansa 1968 timetable by Otl Aicher, and other items. And if I was excited about our previous visit to the Herb Lubalin Study Center at Cooper Union, I can only begin to tell you how ecstatic I was to visit the Graphic Design Archives in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) at the beginning of this month.
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Dancing eyeballs, fitness-video-exercising poodles, half pandas/half other animals, and singing merchandise in a boutique store are only a few of the vivid, perplexing imaginings of Nagi Noda, the talented, eccentric and boundary-pushing artist, art director and fashion designer from Tokyo. Unfettered from any discipline or industry limits, Noda's work extends from book design and music packaging, to short films, to music videos and commercials — including a hypnotic ad for Coca-Cola, with music by the White Stripes' Jack White, commissioned by London agency Mother — and even to clothing design. Noda is signed with Partizan, a leading agency that represents cutting-edge directors, photographers and artists.
Excerpt from Women of Design
