San Fransisco-based artist Leigh Wells’ beautiful series of collaged landscapes on paper…
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper
A visit to bauhaus: art as life, the current exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, is highly recommended.
On until August 12, the Barbican’s brutalist architectural style is an ideal backdrop to the work of the bauhaus school and it’s characteristic emphasis on functionalism.
Combining craft and fine art to create a gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art), the bauhaus school’s (1919 – 1933) output traversed numerous artistic disciplines including typography, printmaking, painting, weaving, woodworking, furniture design and architecture.
Bauhaus ausstellung poster, 1923
Oskar Schlemmer, triadic Ballet costumes in theatrical magazine Metropol-Again, Metropol Theater Berlin, 1926
Josef Albers set of stacking tables (c1927)
Walter Gropius Törten housing estate, Dessau Row houses, isometric 1926–28
Tapestry design by Gunta Stolzl, produced by the Bauhaus in 1926.
Josef Hartwig’s 1922 chess set
Erich Consemuller. Woman in B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a dress in fabric designed by Lis Beyer, 1926.
Herbert Bayer.. Wall-painting design for the stairwell of the Weimar Bauhaus building on the occasion of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, 1923. Gouache, pencil, and cut paper on paper
Marianne Brandt, Teapot, 1924
Anni Albers, Black-White-Red, 1964. Reproduction of a 1927 original. Cotton and silk.
Skyscrapers on Transparent Yellow, ca. 1929. Josef Albers
Avant-garde book design flourished during the interwar period in the Czech republic. Broadly categorized into Poetic, Constructivist, Surrealist and Social Realist movements, the following are examples of Constructivist book design…
Book cover design by Antonín Smazík for Monogamie. Od Masaryka k Russelovi, od Russela socialismu (Monogamy From Masaryk to Russell, from Russell to Socialism), 1932
Book cover design by Josef Hesoun for Rudy obchod hrozí (The Red Trade Menace) by Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, 1932
Book cover design by Stanislav Odvarko for Almanach 1 pro poesil a život 1920-1930 (Almanac 1 of Poetry and Life 1920-1930) edited by Stanislav Odvarko, 1930
Book cover design by Ladislav Sutnar for Obytny dům dneška (Residential Building of Today) by Jan Emil Koula, 1931
Cover design and typography by Ladislav Sutnar drawing on title page by Zdenĕk Kratochvíl for Obráceni kapitána Brassbounda (Obráceni kapitána Brassbounda), 1932
Amongst his work as a performance artist, Parisian-born Guy de Coinet’s (1934 – 1983) portfolio includes a series of designs based on systems of cryptography including an entirely encoded broadsheet entitled ACRCIT.
It was incredible !, 1978, Guy de Coinet
The race was over, 1978, Guy de Coinet
She is in wonderful shape !, 1977, Guy de Coinet
Because the cloud is dark which lit up the night, 1977, Guy de Coinet
Throne of the Kikuyu God, 1978, Guy de Coinet
I feel like vomiting, c.1979, Guy de Coinet
I have been reading the philosophical poems of Miss Ackermann, 1979, Guy de Coinet
different types of type
black and white, shiro to kuro
shapeset alphabet, tim fishlock
calligraphy, bill grant
fire in the hole, oliver munday
via ed merritt
frequency of letters in the english language, jack richardson
lego alphabet, N-E-I
limited edition print for transport for london, tim fishlock
pprwrk studio
via luella says…
Moderna biblioteca…
Vennesla Library and Culture House. Vennesla, Norway. Helen & Hard
Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark. Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen
Taipei Public Library, Taipei, Taiwan. Bio-Architecture Formosana
The-Peckham-Library-designed-by-William-Alsop-and-Jan-Störmer-South-London
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington, USA. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus
Kanazawa Umimirai Library, Kanazawa City, Japan. Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba
Whistler Public Library, Whistler, BC, Canada. Hughes Condon Marley Architects
