List of images for final exam, spring 2025

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Christoph Niemann, illustration, New York, Berlin, (early 2000's)

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Andrey Logvin, High Resolution, Poster (early 2000's)

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Flamingo Studios, This is Ja, Poster (early 2000's)

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Post Typography, Poster, (early 2000's)

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Atelier Rene Knip, Netherlands, Design installation, (late 1990's)

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Martin Woodtli, Sport Design, Poster (1990's)

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Fons Hickmann, Heimatkunde, Platinum Award Poster (2014)

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Maviyane-Davies, Many Rivers to Cross, Zimbabwe (1990's)

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 Jop van Bennekom, The Face, Cover (1996)

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Sara Fanelli, Book spread: Pinocchio, (early 2000's)

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Andy Rementer, Good Morning, Poster (2000's)

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Ken Tsai-Lee, Defeat Aids, Poster (1990-2000's)

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Jonathan Barnbrook, David Bowie's cover of Heathen (2002)

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Arem Duplessis,  New York Times Magazine? Study for cover, (2000's)

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Chris Ware, A Feeling Those People, Graphic Novel (2000's)

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David Carson, The Black Swan, Cover, (2011).

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Stefan Sagmeister, Form Magazine, Cover (2008). 

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Jamie Reid, Pretty Vacant, Poster (1977)

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Deborah Sussman, Los Angeles Olympiad, signage (1984)

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 Pat Gorman & Frank Olinsky, MTV logo, (1982)

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April Greiman, Wet, Cover (1979)

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Ed Fella, Architecture & Urban Design, Poster (1989)

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Wes Wilson, Fillmore Concert Poster, (1967)

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Bill Atherton and Allan Brooking, Pregnant Man, Poster, (1969)

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 Paul Rand, Westinghouse Logo, (1960)

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William Golden, CBS Logo (1951)

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 Saul Bass, The Man with the Golden Arm, Poster (1955)

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George Lois, Esquire Cover, New York (1968)

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Die Design Politie, Can Tourism Benefit the Poor? Poster (2003)

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Franciszek Starowieyski, Lulu, Poster (1970's)

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Jan Lenica, Wozzeck, Poster, (1969)

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Iman Raad, A Single Work, Poster (2007)

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Joseph Müller Brockman, Less Noise!, International Typographic Style, Poster (1960)

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Herb Lubalin, Ad for Ebony, New York (1968)

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                Herbert Matter, Poster for Swiss Tourism (1934)

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László Moholy-Nagy, Poster for BAUHAUS (1931)

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Alvin Lustig, Catalog for World Inventors Exposition (1947)

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Lester Beall, Here it Comes, Rural Electrification Poster (1930)

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A. M. Cassandre, Cover for Harper's Bazaar (1939)

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Alexander Rodchenko, Woman with Leika, (1924)

Your turn #10

Poster for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, by Jacek Staniszewski

Wow, what a class! I hope you enjoyed our discussion of the brief history of Polish posters. Why is this development so significant for the history of art and graphic design in particular? This is one of the few times in the history of art (with the exception of the advent of the Gothic in the 11th Century AD) that, for a brief moment, the art produced by the artists prevailed over ideology and censorship to bring forth a highly original style that was embraced by the people. It took a tacit understanding between both the artists and the people that this wonderfully diverse, colorful & bizarre imagery was the only way to tap into freedom. 

So, again, we have plenty to discuss (besides Polish posters): Alvin Lustig, Helvetica, Dada collage, Moholy-Nagy, Shigeo Fukuda, advertising, propaganda, Fortune magazine, George Giusti, Kula Robbins' Jenny on the job, Norman Rockwell, etc. (to avoid cacophony, if a comment addresses Polish posters, please, talk about individual artists, so more people have a chance to contribute). 

Go ahead!

 

Your turn #9

 

Hi class: Plenty to talk about, Futurist poster, Die Neue Topographie, Herbert Matter, Ladislav Sutnar,  Germany and Austria's Neue Sachlichkeit, l'ecriture automatique, Moholy-Nagy, Constructivism, Rodchenko, Stankowski's metadesign, Symbol signage, graphic design in jazz LP covers during 40s and 50s, Vargas, and THE LOGO.   

Go ahead. 

Your turn #8

 

The velocity of an automobile, Giacomo Balla, 1911

Dear class: you have a good list of themes to pick from. Neoplasticism, Surrealism in graphic design (see the different techniques) & Depero and his onomalanguage (which is Depero's way of standardizing Futurism for commercial purposes). Three female surrealist artists: Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington & Dorothea Tanning. WW 2 & the German propaganda machine. NY designers such as Alex Lieberman, and Herb Lubalin. Russian Cubofuturism & Malevich. 

I would add the following (which I didn't have time to talk about):

1. Joseph Binder 

2. different forms of Dada collage.

3. Breton's Manifeste du Surréalism.

4. A more detailed analysis of the graphic techniques of Max Ernst and John Heartfield.

Remember 200 words. No echo chamber.

dorothea tanning (the american surrealist)

portrait of Muriel Levy, 1943, 

Tanning was a self-taught artist. The surreal imagery of her paintings from the 1940s and her close friendships with artists and writers of the Surrealist Movement have led many to regard Tanning as a Surrealist painter, yet she developed her own individual style over the course of an artistic career that spanned six decades.

Profanation Landscape, 1947

Tanning's early works consist of precise figurative renderings of dream-like situations. Tanning read many Gothic and Romantic novels from her local library in her hometown of Galesburg. These fantastical stories, filled with imagery of the imaginary, heavily influenced her style and subject matter for years to come. Like other Surrealist painters, she was meticulous in her attention to details and in building up surfaces with carefully muted brushstrokes. 

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943

Through the late 1940s, Tanning continued to paint depictions of unreal scenes, some of which combined erotic subjects with enigmatic symbols and desolate space. In the 1950s, her painting became less explicit and more suggestive. 

Rêve de Luxe, 1954

The Guest Room, 1950

In France, she moved away from Surrealism and develop her own style. During the mid-1950s, her work radically changed and her images became increasingly fragmented and prismatic, exemplified in works such as Insomnias (1957, Moderna Museet, Stockholm). 

Family portrait, 1954

here's an short about Tanning's work,

Your turn #7

Raoul Hausmann, Tatlin at Home, collage, 1920s

So, we have Expressionism's contribution to printing, Schmidt-Rotluff, PROGAPGANDA, DADA and its different manifestations in the graphic arts (Max Ernst, Grosz, Hausmann, etc.), 1920's & 1930s Plakatstil, the contribution of Mehemed Fehmy Agha to graphic design in the USA, and the different sides of BAUHAUS: Gropius, Albers, Moholy-Nagy, van der Rohe, Klee, Kandinsky, etc. I tried to show more images this time.  Pick anything from the list and elaborate on your comments. No echo chambers. If someone addresses a specific topic, move on to something else. That should work. 

Go ahead.

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your turn #6 (due on tuesday March 28)

Gustav Klimt, Woman in Gold, 1907

Hi class, today, Tuesday, March 21, you received an announcement regarding our class next Tuesday, March 28, which I’ll attend. I will be there to teach the class@ 5pm. I’m sorry for the mixed messages. Everything else stays the same. Here's the homework in place of my absence. 

There's plenty to talk about: Gesamtkunstwerk, Symbolism in its three variants (check the post), Vienna Secession, Behrens, Dudovich, Hoffmanss' Stoclet Palace, Wiener Werkstätte, the Deutscher Werkbund, the mark of Analytic Cubism, the mark of collage, how today's "Installation Art" is just an evolution from Gesamtkunstwerk, 

1. Instead of the usual 150 words, let's produce 200 words for this specific homework. 

2. Research the topic and avoid the echo chamber syndrome. 

3. When we get together, I expect to have a lively discussion on your comments.

Go ahead.

your turn #5

Chromolithographs, circa 1850

Dear class, there's plenty to comment on: William Blake, Crystal Palace, Art Nouveau, Pictorialism, the Pre-raphaelites, and their heroes: Mackmurdo, Morris, Owens, Evertt Millais, Ford Madox Brown, Morris's Kelmscott Press, etc. 

Go ahead.  

your turn #4

 The Crystal Palace, 1854, (perhaps the the symbol of Victorian design)

Dear class: please, take a look at this link for typeface development from 15th to 19th century!

We had to move fast, so there is plenty to comment about typeface development: from Gutenberg to Jenson to Manutius, Griffo, Caslon, Baskerville, Didot (influenced by Baskerville), and Bodoni. It's a fascinating story of design influenced by climate, language, and culture, and by "culture" I mean religion, politics, ideas, etc. In the end, you could see it as a struggle between north and south, Humanism vs. Conservatism, Protestantism vs. Catholicism, etc.   

Erotica, take a look at these works (it's all in Wikipedia) 

Here are the graphic design highlights: 1. newspapers, 2. magazines, 3. the advent of "community of interests" (gardening, mechanics, children's books, music printing, postcards), 4. 19th-century posters: fairs, circus, nightlife in general, etc. (this is for next class).  

In terms of technological development, we had: the advent of photography and how it changes how a culture sees itself: landscape photography, portraiture, natural science, war reportage, anthropology (Talbot's Pencil of Nature), etc.  

In terms of movement, we briefly talked about Romanticism and Victorian design (by the way, forgot to talk about this).