snapshots of art and other modes of creative expression.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum is having a landmark year. Having just turned 50, it’s now also home, for the first time, to a restaurant. Wright–which is a pretty good name for a restaurant, never mind a fitting homage to you-know-who–officially opens today, and was designed by the New York-based architect, Andre Kikoski.
Herbert Matter, the Swiss-born photographer, graphic designer and visionary is the subject of The Visual Language of Herbert Matter, a documentary to be released in 2010. Some of Matter’s more famous work was for the furniture manufacturer, Knoll, including their original logo from 1947.
Nicely illustrated ads from the magazine Ty i Ja, a Polish publication from the 1970’s.
Punctuation marks are typographic stars in themselves. And I’m not just talking asterisks.
A semi-colon carves out a niche for itself.
Gorgeous experiment in quotation marks.
The usually lowly brackets get top billing here.
Love this Frank Stella-like typographical composition by Sydney’s Toko design studio, complete with T-shaped canvas.
For the love of both Helvetica and Helsinki–adoring poster design by the Finnish designer Fräck.
I’ve not experienced the meticulously-crafted paintings of the British artist Terry Haggerty in person–but must.
Rothko-esque beauty in CD illustration and packaging by Hamburg’s Markus Schäfer.
One, in an array of striking type-based posters from Experimental Jetset.
