Final Project

Herbert Matter

He attended the prestigious Ecole Des Beaux-Art for 4 semesters    Matter’s worked embraced the constructivist and purist style
He collaborated with people like Charles and Ray Eames
Was in influential designer, photographer and filmmaker

Milton Glaser

Created the DC comics bullet logo
Founder of 'Push Pin' studio.
Created the "I love NY" logo
'nuff said. 

Charles & Ray Eames

A architect and a painter together, sounds (and looks) like the best kind of love story.

Helvetivca

 

•  Originated in Switzerland 1957
• Sans-serif
• VERY commonly used in Governmental buildings and literature
• association with clean design

Bauhaus

 

 Graph of the educational curriculum at the Bauhaus, 1923 by Walter Gropius

 

 Poster Design for Bauhaus, 1923

 

Marcel Breuer, Tubular steel chair, design 1928

 Bauhaus at Dessau, Gropius

 

 Breur, Wassily Chair, 1927

•  Bauhaus was an Art School, founded in Wiemar, Germany by Walter Groupious.
• The school focused on architecture and DesignUnlike other Art and Technical school, Bauhaus found way of dealing with life in a practical way through the use of art.
• The school was funded by public funds 
• Bauhaus closed in 1923 (Increase of National Socialist Party)
• Later reopened in 1925 in Dessau( a richer place and large industry) 
• 1933 moved to a factory in Berlin
• 1933 Bauhaus closed

PULP FICTION

NOT THIS

  MORE LIKE THIS 

ALTHOUGH WE MAY GET BACK TO THAT

BECAUSE ITS AMAZING

Rare to find a man who is privileged to be exempt from the rigors of the common man and yet to be  so enamored with the little dramas of their lives as to look on them with such  and human understanding.

The painter Henri Toulouse was one of these rare breeds, descent of a noble family who painted his subjects, the whores, actors, musicians and rough and hewn middle class of France with a smile and sometimes a sympathetic grimace for the nightly dramas meat grinder  that they threw themselves into over and over again. 

The most visible and easily remembered  achievement of a singular Mr. Siegfried Bing was the cultivated presence of Art Nouveau.  However I believe that in itself is not enough be laid at his feet, what Mr. Bing is increasingly deserving of is a recognition of a true patron of the Art's.  How often do artists forget that their universe is not held up by the strength of their convictions, or their self apparent genius?  In that Hubris I believe that we have long overlooked a cornerstone of many of the great art movements, the men who put their business in play because of a bone deep enchantment  with Art.

Mr. Bing is one of such men, we can comb records and look through pamphlets to see his presence and influence among these men, but I wonder if we have yet still underestimated him in how he interacted with the craftsmen on day to day.

From Victorian Industrial Advertizing to Arts and Craft and then to Now

OH HAIL VICTORIA

 

Corsets Balenine incassables, by

Alfred Choubrack

 

 

Folles Berugere, Alfred Choubrack

 

Coca Cola Coke Victorian Lady Delicious Refreshing Retro Vintage Tin Sig

SCHWEPPES ADVERTISEMENT 1900

 

CRAFT AND ART

Modern Roman Capitals by James Cromar Watt 1862-1940

 African Marigold by William Morris c.1876

Vase (1901), J. van der Vet

T.J Cobden-Sanderson. The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Masque of Red Death by Harry Clark

TODAY!OH TODAY!!WHAT HAVE WE DONE!!!

 

Cards by the Western New York Book Arts Center. The press is based in Buffalo.

 

  The Slow Textiles Group offers a stimulating and containing space for creative people everywhere. Keeping sight of creative vision, practice and creative contemporaries with whom to share becomes less tenable over time. As work, business, money and family take over, making space for learning, creating, developing, exhibiting, sharing and discussing fades.

 

 

  Brian Teare's Albion Books Third Series is Jonathan Skinner's poetry chapbook Warblers (2010)

The Ms of My Kin"(2009) by Janet Holmes

 

Antlers no.133 by Pancake & Franks