Project 3: Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum? The 1989 piece titled “Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?” addresses the sexualization of women’s bodies in highly regarded paintings and artwork, and how ironically, “85% of the nudes are female” in The…
Archive for April, 2018
Ed Fella: New York Times
In 1999, Ed Fella designed the lettering for New York Times review of a book by Verlyn Klinkenborg. This was a big accomplishment for Ed Fella. Many people read the New York Times, so his art would be reaching a number of people that have never seen his artwork before. This was another one of…
Charm Magazine
Charm Magazine was another important marker in Cipe Pineles Career. This was a collaboration between she and Helen Valentine under Street & Smith Publication. After successfully creating Seventeen Magazine they realized yet again that there was an “issue” with the female magazine industry. Adult women that were being represented in magazines, were not accurate to…
Seventeen Magazine
Pineles work with Seventeen Magazine was only just a part of the Continuum that was her editorial career. She and an old friend from her time at Vogue magazine, Helen Valentine, decided that there was a market for teen girls to buy magazines. Not only was there a market for it, but there was a…
Otto Eckmann
The Jugendstil artist Otto Eckmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1865 and died of tuberculosis in 1902 in Badenweiler, Germany. In his early career, he studied at the Hamburg School of Arts and Crafts before transitioning to Munich and studying further at the Art Academy. He was a painter until 1894, when he began…
Contempora and Everfast
This Contempora piece created by Cipe Pineles circa 1931 was a 3D medium of cardboard and textiles. I retrieved it from Martha Scotfords book Cipe Pineles, A life in Design. Most of Pineles work that she created at Contempora is very hard to find, but they are perhaps some of the most important step stones…
Evolution
Jonathan Barnbrook created this project, Evolution, in 2010. I chose to include this project into the portfolio because this image was an important project for Barnbrook, as he was able to clearly portray his anti-war beliefs. Barnbrook feels very strongly about social and political issues that are present in the world, and feels that his skills…
Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles lived from 1908-1991. She is a well known designer and Art Director because of her ability to create wonderful magazine spreads and compelling graphics. In this biography I will be following her editorial profession timeline since that is where her most influential pieces were cultivated. Pineles was born in Vienna, Austria June 23…
Guerrilla Girls The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
Project 2: The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist This poster created by the Guerrilla Girls uses a list to highlight how women are excluded from art history lessons, textbooks, museum collections, and more institutions in the field of art. Their 1988 poster “The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist” lists thirteen “advantages”…
Designers are Falling Over Each Other
Barnbrook released this project in partnership with the well-known magazine firm, Adbusters, in 2001. I chose to include this project into the portfolio because this was an important milestone for Barnbrook, as it gave him a larger platform to release pieces of design work that truly reflected his own opinion in terms of advocating for political and…
Herb Lubalin
Herb Lubalin (loo-ball-in) was born on March 17, 1918 in New York City. Lubalin remained in New York throughout his childhood and adolescence and eventually enrolled in art school at Cooper Union. Lubalin had no prior intentions of pursuing an artistic career prior to Cooper Union, although once there he began to evolve and his…
Kamekura Tokyo Olympics 1964
Following a brief period of peace and rebuilding in Japan after their defeat in the 2nd world war, Tokyo was to host the next Olympic games in the capital of Tokyo. This was a symbolic gesture that would hopefully show the world that Japan was not only willing to put aside past differences and move…
Kamekura Osaka Expo ’70
The Osaka Expo was the first world’s fair that was being held in Osaka Japan that was intended to bring people in Japan and all over the world together for a celebration of peace and prosperity. Naturally, a man with similar design ideals was hired to begin working on a poster design for the event.…
Kamekura Hiroshima Appeals
Kamekura’s work for Hiroshima Appeals (1983) series of posters was a shocking and contemplative piece on the horrors of WWII. The poster series was created to symbolize an era of peace following the war. His personal take on the symbolism of the burning butterflies was a profound statement on “The beauty and grace of the…
Yusaku Kamekura
Yusaku Kamekura, born April 16, 1915, was a prominent designer of the post-war period. Kamekura sought to bring Japanese graphic design to the international scene with his unique blend of Bauhaus-influenced design mixed with traditional Japanese themes and aesthetics. His work would go to not only define Japan’s post-war, but also the general aesthetic as…