Design quarterly is a prestigious magazine from Walker Art Center that for over 50 years has been featuring designers and their work in the fields of contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and product and graphic design. In 1989 they reached out to April Greiman to feature her for issue 133 of their magazine and…
Visual Aspects of Science was a booklet written by Burtin for Kodak, IBM, The Upjohn Company, and Union Carbide in 1962. One of the commissioners, The Upjohn Company, was a company that created pharmaceuticals and published a magazine called Scope. The magazine was important because it helped doctors comprehend complex medical and scientific concepts. Another…
Seven years after the death of Adriano Olivetti, Giovanni Pintori decided to leave Olivetti because of differences with the new management of the Olivetti typewriter manufacturing company. Once he left Olivetti, Pintori began to do freelance design work out of Milan and he opened his own studio. Despite leaving Olivetti, he continued to do freelance…
Giovanni Pintori worked for the Olivetti typewriter manufacturing company for many years and contributed numerous posters of many different styles and mediums. Despite the variety in the posters, all of them look as though they belong in the same system. They all use the same basic colors, red, yellow, blue, and green. Also, they all…
This poster was created under Moscoso’s company, Neon Rose. Because he had control of the company, he had control of the work that was produced under it. For him, this meant complete artistic freedom, and he produced some of the most iconic images in the psychedelic era under the umbrella of Neon Rose. This poster…
Zap Comix are culturally significant in the underground comics era as a rebellion against the acts set in place by committees at the time that attempted to stifle creativity in an attempt to make mass media more family friendly. Comix were titled this way because of their “X” rated nature, and Zap Comix #4 actually…
This project is significant to Moscoso, because he claims that this poster is the one that clicked for him, where he said he got his mind “off the bench.” This work was done with Family Dog and employed his style of vibrating colors and photocollage to create unique compositions. This particular poster played with foreground/background…
The second example of Ellen Lupton’s work that I have chosen is her textbook, Thinking with Type, which is one of the most used typography textbooks worldwide. It is an excellent example of her skill as an educator and an author with concise information and examples to help educate the next generation of graphic designers on typography…
“The Flames” a poster for The Association in 1966 The Flames poster for The Association in 1966 is considered the first true psychedelic poster. The Association was an American pop band from California. This poster is printed by Mr. Ivor Powell, the pressman at West Coast Litho. He also printed Wilson’s “Are We Next?” poster.…
1966 The Beatles Tom Donahue of KYA somehow convinced The Beatles to perform at the Candlestick Park even though they were on their way back to England. KYA called Wilson up to do the poster and that it ended up being the last concert by The Beatles. Only 300 copies were made. Today, there are…
“Are We Next?” “Are We Next?” was a personal project for Wes Wilson that he designed in 1965. Wilson stated in an interview with collectors weekly that “It was a symbolic anticipation of what could happen if our government adopted military power tactics over traditional American ethical and humanitarian principles.” Wilson wanted to express that…
When Giovanni Pintori graduated from the Higher Institute of Artistic Industries and almost immediately afterward, he was asked to join the advertisement team at the Olivetti typewriter manufacturing company. After working for Olivetti’s advertising department for a while he was promoted to art director in 1950. While he worked with Olivetti, he created many beautiful,…
This 2003 spread was designed by Fred Woodward, to promote the new movie Spiderman, starring Tobey Maguire. The article features Woodward’s signature style of positioning the headline across an image in such a way that forces the reader to read the headline in a certain way, while also at the same time observing all the details…
One of Fred Woodward’s most noteworthy spreads is a 1992 profile for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The spread features a photograph of Schwarzenegger sitting inside a giant inner tube on a beach, which Woodward used to make a typographic response by positioning the headline, which says “Mr. Big Shot,” around the photo in order to make the…
This 1993 cover of Rolling Stone magazine featuring a topless Janet Jackson, whose chest is covered only by the hands of her then-husband René Elizondo, is one of the more iconic covers. Elizondo is not actually pictured, only his hands, so as not to take away from the statement the image is making. The cover was…