This is a well know album cover designed by the artist Andy Warhol. Although the music has made it one of the most influential albums, the cover itself may be better known by the public. I think this album cover is distinctive because it only has a banana, Andy Warhol’s signature, and “peel slowly and…
Piet Zwart started to work for NKF (Dutch Cable Manufacturers) in 1923, and the works of graphic design he created there are his best-known designs. This catalog Zwarts designed for NKF was printed in full color and was 80 pages long. In this work, we can notice Zwart’s use of primary colors, clean sans-serif typography,…
This is the first typographic design of Piet Zwart. It is created for the LAGA rubber floor manufacturer while Zwart was still working for the architect Berlage. In the 1920s, the founder of LAGA found out Zwart’s passion for typography and offered him this commission. From this early work, Zwart’s architectural training background appears evident:…
Piet Zwart is a multidisciplinary designer. he spent most of his career moonlighting as an architect and photographer (1). Although Zwart was only trained as an architect, he also worked as graphic designer, industrial designer, interior designer and a pioneer of modern typography. Piet Zwart was born in 1885 in Zaandijk, Netherlands. He trained as…
Felt Tip Roman was created by Mark Simonson. He started working on this typeface in 1989 and published it in 1992, which was the first typeface he released. Mark Simonson had started out as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976, later in 2000, he founded his studio specializing in lettering and typography. The Felt…