Nancy Skolos is a graphic designer and a photographer that mainly works alongside her husband in creating posters that have been displayed in many different admirable Graphic Design Exhibitions, however, in 2006 she ventured out and created her very first book. This book “Typography, Image, Message” is Nancy Skolos’ first book. This book is a…
Nancy Skolos works almost entirely in print work. By using a combination of 3D physical sculptures, photography, and graphic design and editing, she creates beautiful posters that can be used in many different ways. In this piece she used her skills to create an advertisement poster for the Lyceum Competition. Nancy has been known to…
One of my favorite and most recent projects designed by Qingyu Wu is her 2021 Album Design titled “Neo Era Romance 新世纪人类浪漫主义” for Modern Sky. This piece was designed for the musician Fu Han’s first album release. The project was a collaboration between Qingyu Wu, Fu Han, Sun Yi, and Frederic Kevorkian. The album design…
Hard Werken was initially a Rotterdam based design company specializing in design publications. The original group of designers consisted of Rick Vermeulen, Willem Kars, Gerard Hadders, Henk Elenga and Ton van der Haspel in 1979. Their first official publication was called One For All in which they took an approach towards the pressures and opportunities…
In 2017, while working at Pentagram, Luke Hayman collaborated with American Rock band ‘The National’ to design the album cover and promotional material for the record ‘Sleep Well Beast’. The Grammy nominated album cover features a picture of the rural New York State recording studio built on the property of one of the band members.…
Travel + Leisure is one of the world’s top travel magazines boasting a readership of over five million. Published by American Express, the magazine is recognized for its stylish photography, useful information, and smart writing. Luke Hayman was Creative Director at Travel + Leisure from 2002 to 2004, prior to joining Pentagram in 2006 and…
Silas Munro’s book W.E.B Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America is an analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois work through the lens of an African American. This novel grabs readers with its bright colorful graphic swirl on the front. This swirl is one of the many pieces included inside. Each of these infographics done by…
Calendrier Magique is an occult calendar created by Austin de Croze and illustrated by Manuel Orazi. The booklet calendar was printed in France in 1895 and only had 777 copies to commemorate magic for the coming year of 1896. It was meant to be a work of art rather than a real handbook for occult…
The advertisement poster for La Maison Moderne was created by Manuel Orazi in 1902. La Maison Moderne was founded by Julius Meyer-Graefe in 1898. La Maison Modern was a store that sold the latest decorative objects and furnishings in the Art Nouveau style. As an Art Nouveau artist that focused on ornamental and decorative…
ELLEN LUPTON & J. ABBOTT MILLER J. Abbott Miller and wife Ellen Lupton often collaborate in their art and their designs. They are both graduates of the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. They founded the studio, Design/Writing/Research tougher and pioneered the approach of design as a form of authorship. This approach can be…
Martin’s Champions Design was brought on for the 1619 Project, a reorganization of American History to include the Black American experience in society presented in book form. Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Martin’s team worked to organize the book’s layout and imagery to best portray the message of the overarching themes. Incorporating poetry at the beginnings…
Klavika is a typeface designed by Eric Olson, cofounder of the Process Type Foundry. This font style is quite famous, being offered on most writing platforms, such as Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and more. The Klavika typeface was officially released by the process Process Type Foundry in 2004, and the typeface proved to be quite…
Rand is a typeface belonging to a trio of fonts, with the other two being Plain (2014) and Apax(2016). Created by type designer Francois Rappo, this trio of fonts was devoted to his work in the grotesque genre, as he continued to research the minimalism of modernism through Plain and the visual language of constructivism…
Joseph Kaspar Sattler created the typeface Nibelunge-schrift in 1897 for the Reichsdruckerei Berlin. This typeface was created for the 1900 book project Die Nibelungen. The Nibelungen-Schrift typeface is considered a type of Art Nouveau script typeface. The creation of this typeface was a big milestone in Joseph Sattler’s design career. The typeface is a very…
Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the first people to use the linotype machine to publish books in 1891 (Britannica, 2022). The Linotype machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884 (Centre, 2022). This machine is a typesetting machine in that characters are placed in a finished line in order to print faster than…