Latest Posts from Jillian Tyler

Yerba Mate

I came across this tea the other day walking through Target and the first thing that caught my eye was the designs pointing towards the main label. They do not look like anything I have seen before, the designs are a mix of geometric lines mixed with curved lines and shapes with dots.  Through some…

Noz W Wodzie (1961)

Noz W Wodzie, or Knife in the Water is a film directed by Roman Polanski, released in. The movie is about a couple on a road trip about to go sailing who run into a hitchhiker and invite him along. Tension builds between the hitchhiker and the man who invited him along because he starts…

Wozzeck

This poster was commissioned to advertise the Polish National Opera’s 1964 production of Alban Berg’s avant-garde opera Wozzeck in Warsaw. The opera is based off of the everyday life of soldiers and the townspeople of a rural German-speaking town. At first glance, because of the heavy use of the color red, the poster can be…

Jan Lenica

Jan Lenica was born in Poznań, Poland on January 4, 1928 to the famous painter and musician, Alfred Lenica. His father encouraged him to be a pianist thus attending a music based secondary school in 1947. He switched paths and graduated from Warsaw Polytechnic in 1952 with a degree in Architecture. Warsaw Polytechnic is the…

The Number 23

  The film I watched was The Number 23 based on a man, Walter Sparrow, who comes upon a book which reflects the title of the film and through reading it, becomes obsessed with the number 23. He starts to see it in all aspects of his life and it eventually drives him mad, makes…