MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles modern graphic design inspiration blog + vintage graphics resource Wrong Side of Art Posters Etienne Mineur archives Cet été, j’ai un peu le temps d'écouter les nombreux PodCasts stockés dans mon iphone durant cette année, et je (re)découvre toutes une série de Podcasts vraiment intéressants et très variés. • Je vous conseille avant tout le l’émission de l’Agence tous Geeks n° 07, vous allez avoir Monsieur Post Carbone qui va vous expliquer le fonctionnement de nombreuses inventions, (du gramophone de Thomas Edison, au disque dur, en passant par la souris, le CDRom, et la disquette 3,5 pouces). Ce monsieur est un pédagogue de génie, il arrive à vous expliquer des choses très compliquées très simplement et avec passion, bref je vote pour que Post Carbon soit notre prochain ministre de l’éducation nationale (et de la recherche). • Il y a aussi une émission passionnante du nom de Pendant les travaux le cinéma reste ouvert concernant le cinéma. Cette émission est diffusée sur France inter avec comme animateurs l’excellent Jean-Baptiste Thoret et Stéphane Bou. • Proxi-jeux, sur les jeux de sociétés
Film Poster Paintings from Ghana In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see. In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies. The artistic freedom that these artists were given allowed for the creation of some very interesting and sometimes bizarre posters that, as screenwriter Walter Hill wrote, were quite often “more interesting than the films.” Most of these posters come from the book Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghana that Will from A Journey Around My Skull linked me to.
Design Archives Vignelli Associates (1962-2008) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2010 The 50 best-designed books and book covers published between January 1 and December 31, 2010.View Collection Chermayeff & Geismar (1960-2006) AIGA 365: Design Effectiveness (2011) Push Pin Graphic (1957-1980) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2009 The 50 best-designed books and book covers designed and/or produced in North America between January 1 and December 31, 2009.View Collection 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008 The 50 best-designed books and book covers designed and/or produced between January 1 and December 31, 2008.View Collection Fifty Books of the Year (1930) Communication Graphics (1969) Just Type Work published in 1978-1982 that relies solely on type or handlettering as illustrative elements.View Collection Graphic Explanations: Charts, Diagrams, Graphs and Maps Print charts, diagrams, graphs and maps designed to aid the reader's comprehension of complex information, published in the United States or Canada in 1978-81.View Collection Packaging
Design Search Code Manual - Table of Contents - Introduction 1. The General Guidelines provide broad instructions and procedures for coding and interpreting the design search codes. 2. Each design search code is a numerical classification index that codifies design figurative elements into categories, divisions and sections. The design search codes act as the equivalent of a filing system for paper records. For example, a five-pointed star would be coded in category 01 (celestial bodies, natural phenomena and geographical maps), division 01 (stars, comets) and section 03 (stars with five points). The design code manual also contains explanatory notes and specific guidelines that provide instructions for specific code sections, cross-reference notes which direct users to other code categories, sections and divisions, and notes describing elements that are included or excluded from a code section. 3. The individual coders for design trademarks have been instructed to look at the designs from two aspects.
Graphic Design I love Dust was recently in touch to let me know that they updated their portfolio in a big way with a wealth of new design, illustration and animation work. They continue to inspire and know that my love for them guarantees a post. Oh how I wish I was across the pond so I could knock on their door and try to see if they’d take in a wayward designer/illustrator like me. There is some lovely print and poster work in the portfolio of UK studio Telegramme . If you are a gig poster aficionado there is a healthy dose of inspiration on display. Matt Chase is a designer & illustrator living and working in Washington, DC. Patrice Olivier Acardy aka HEYPE has a diverse body of work. Yes A lex Trochut is still out there cranking things out. Ruslan Khasanov is an interesting young designer who tailors and calls upon a rounded set of skills to accomplish each project. I am a devotee of Herb Lubalin and have lauded over his work most of my career. Our friend Andrei D.
@ at MoMA Ray Tomlinson. @. 1971. Here displayed in ITC American Typewriter Medium, the closest approximation to the character used by a Model 33 Teletype in the early 1970s MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. It is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud. But what does it mean, both in conceptual and in practical terms? Contemporary art, architecture, and design can take on unexpected manifestations, from digital codes to Internet addresses and sets of instructions that can be transmitted only by the artist. The acquisition of @ takes one more step. In order to understand why we have chosen to acquire the @ symbol, and how it will exist in our collection, it is necessary to understand where @ comes from, and why it’s become so ubiquitous in our world. A Little History The @ symbol used in a 1536 letter from an Italian merchant Arroba sign in document from the 1400s denoting a wheat shipment from Castile Ray Tomlinson’s @