Robynne Raye was the author and curator of this collection for the book, 1000 Dog Portraits. This book is comprised of artwork by different artists around the world. This shows the different ways a dog can be drawn through color, breed, and style. She made this piece happen during the era of her lawsuit against Target…
Ian Anderson and The Designers Republic origins are without a doubt in the music scene, with their earliest works creating club posters, event fliers and album covers for the bands they knew and frequently worked with. In the 90s, they became a key collaborator with the Sheffield imprint Warp Records designing various covers and even…
Faliurism Manifesto, another one of Can Yang’s works done during her time at Rhode Island School of Design, displays her own manifesto where she drew inspiration from composer and artist John Cage’s work about creating spontaneous, random decisions. For her own work, she used the idea of failure in “how sometimes things that are unintended…
is one of Can Yang’s works during her time at Rhode Island School of Design. The title was inspired by mythological creatures in the Chinese constellations, Azure Dragon of the East representing Spring, Black Tortoise of the North representing Winter, White Tiger of the West representing Fall, and Vermillion Bird of the South representing Summer.…
The average American in the 1950’s had an unwavering love for spacious, long, and stylish vehicles. As the 60’s rolled around, imported cars became a more frequent sight; and Volkswagen had set out to establish their own American classic. The problem was that the Volkswagen Beetle wasn’t what Americans had been fawning after in previous…
The 1960’s proved to be a historic decade for Helmut Krone and his many innovative advertising designs. The above ad was published in LIFE magazine on January 10th, 1964 [1]. Following his iconic “Think Small” campaign for Volkswagen, Krone had found continuous success in simple, straight to the point designs. Krone’s relationship with Volkswagen began…
The album cover for “Pod” by The Breeders, designed by Vaughn Oliver in 1990. The album had a far-reaching influence in the rock and grunge scene, going as far as being listed as one of Kurt Cobain’s top three albums. Similarly, the record sleeve cover was iconic and recognizable. This design features an image of…
The record sleeve for The Pixies’ album, Doolittle, was created in 1989, designed and art directed by Vaughn Oliver. Oliver created this design in collaboration with photographer Simon Larbalester. The design features a negative image of a monkey with a halo. This was in reference to one of the songs in the album, “Monkey Gone…
“Honey Cake”, one of Eiko Ishioka’s earlier works during her time while working for Shiseido, depicts a glossy and gorgeous bar of soap being cleanly split with a knife. At the time, this kind of modern and sensory imagery had never been used for the brand or even cosmetics adverts of the time. The vibrant…
“American Airline to New York” by Edward McKnight Kauffer is lithograph poster done on white woven paper, as suggested in the name the piece was commissioned by the American Airlines company and was completed in 1948. After being unable to enlist in WWII alongside England as an American citizen, Kauffer saw no choice but to…
“Power, The Nerve Centre of London’s Underground” by Edward McKnight Kauffer is a 40 5/8 x 24 3/4″, lithograph poster that was created for the Underground Railroad Company in 1930. This was one of the many 140 posters that Kauffer designed for the company. Being commissioned by the Underground Railroad Company was a big push…
This project is one of Phil Baines most recognized works, Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005. In it, Baines looks back over the history of the Penguin publishing company’s book design as it changed from the very first cover to the most recent one. Anyone would recognize the classic orange penguin on various renown literature that would be found…
The second project that I will be covering is Phil Baines’ 1994 ‘Yak’ 2 poster. This poster was published as a part of Why Not Associates, a graphic design company that Baines’ has done freelance work for frequently. The poster was released along with a few other posters through Why Not Associates. In an interview on…
Harumi Gals is an ongoing project by Harumi Yamaguchi that began in the 1970s. The difference between HARUMI GALS and Harumi Gals is that the all-caps version of the title refers to the exhibitions and the italicized version refers to the series that has been going on since the 1970s. The Harumi Gals exhibition I…
HARUMI’S SUMMER was an exhibition project that was a collaboration between Harumi Yamaguchi and YOSHIROTTEN, a Japanese graphic artist and art director. It was presented in the summer of 2018 at the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. It has been described as an artistic “jam session”, combining the creative abilities of two Japanese artists.…