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.…
John Bielenberg was associated with many community-benefiting design projects due to his influence and position over Project M. Project M’s goal was to place groups of young designers in situations where they had to collaboratively and revolutionarily develop a project to benefit the area they found themselves in. …
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…
This image is a photograph taken from one of Schawinsky’s performance art pieces as a part of his experimental multimedia project Spectrodrama from 1936 to 1938, this particular one is called Danse Macabre. Surrealism, which became popular in the 1920s when Schawinsky was in Germany studying at Bauhaus, is the art genre most heavily drawn…
This image is a photograph of one of Schawinsky’s theater sets as a part of Spectrodrama which existed from 1936 to 1938; it was an experimental multimedia theater set project that is by most standards Schawinsky’s most prominent and enduring collection of works. Schawinksy was fascinated by how light, color, motion, and time intersected and…
In 1913 Edward Johnston was introduced to the manager of the London Underground Group, Frank Pick. Pick wanted help in remodeling the Underground to make it more attractive and effective to the public. Then hopefully resulting in an increased income from the system. He also wanted it so it can make everything easier to navigate,…
Part of the Glasgow style as well as Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s style is a lot of stained glass work. In 1901, Mackintosh entered a design competition to design a house for people who love art work. He had designed a house but was disqualified for a so-called “rule-break.” His design remained a concept until 1989…
In another method of combining complex computer programs with creativity and art John Maeda created “Flying Letters”. This interactive rpgr uses a. Mac OS9 emulator and can be known to take a significant amount of time to load up. “Flying Letters” is exactly what it describes, flying letters in white against a black background that…
Letter J and Letter W (left to right) Aside from his graphic designs, Igarashi is equally famous for his alphabetical sculptures that he created in the 1980s. One prime example is his Aluminum Alphabet Series, which is interestingly his only series that has the complete set of 26 letters A…
Son of Fury: A Documentracing Thomas Ockerse published Son of Fury: A Documentracing in 1973, the same year as TIME: A Documentracing and they are often referred to as brother works to each other. Like TIME, Son of Fury has a limitation of 300 copies, which while it is significantly less, they are currently going…
TIME: A Documentracing Thomas Ockerse created TIME: A Documentracing in 1973. A documentracing is described as a visual poem that documents time in an artistic way by integrating different pieces of things to create a poem like story. Currently, this piece of work is limited to 1000 printed copies total and has been since it…
Peter Behrens most iconic design project is arguably the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (also known as AEG) turbine factory. The contributions of Peter Behrens upon this project grew his name and value in the design community and set him aside from others. Commissioned in 1907, with no prior formal architecture experience, Behrens took on the collaborative project.…
Composition with Figures, created between 1913 to 1915, was one of Liubov Popova’s first renowned artworks and is a combination of cubism and futurism styles. This piece shows Popova’s experimentation with line, shape, and movement. Her strategic placement of her lines and shadows helps create depth. Composition with Figures is a very dynamic piece with…