Archive for June, 2010

PATTERN MAKER

28 June 2010


A delicately beautiful typographic poster by the South Korean designer Vhan Kim.

ADDED DIMENSION

26 June 2010

A masterful 1994 poster (for an exhibition on Swiss book design), by Pierre Mendell.

FACTORY BOYS

25 June 2010

This 1966 concert poster is part of the ephemera culled for The Velvet Underground: New York Art, a book that chronicles the formative years of the avant-garde rock band championed by Andy Warhol.

VIEW FINDER

25 June 2010


The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge under construction is seen through a chain link fence in this brilliant 1969 photograph by Barton Silverman.

FADE TO BLACK

24 June 2010

The Higher Powers Command: Paint the Upper Right Hand Corner Black!

A seminal work (1969) by the great German painter, photographer and provocateur, Sigmar Polke, who died exactly two weeks ago today.

PRINTED PAGE

24 June 2010


A 1989 woodcut print by Jonathan Borofsky.

SURREAL ESTATE

23 June 2010

Magritte shows his face in this New York Magazine ad for the new LEED-certified Liberty Green condominium complex in downtown Manhattan.

ART HISTORY

23 June 2010

Matthew Higgs is a British artist and curator with a fondness for making art from existing art.  Case in point:  his photograph of the 1957 book by Austrian art historian, Hans Sedlmayr, with its graphically perfect ratio of white space to image.

COLOR FULL

23 June 2010

Brightly hued, inventive identity for (and by) British designer, Daniel Norris.

TO BE

22 June 2010


An aluminum and LED sculpture by Canadian artist, Kelly Mark.

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