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Over a remarkable career that spanned more than sixty years, Abram Games was a leading voice in 20th-century British graphic design. A modernist who used graphically charged symbols to catch the eye, he designed posters, signage, packaging, and other ephemera for such giants as the BBC, Shell, the Financial Times, Guinness, and the London Underground. During World War II,(...)
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September 2003, New York
Abram Games : his life and work
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Over a remarkable career that spanned more than sixty years, Abram Games was a leading voice in 20th-century British graphic design. A modernist who used graphically charged symbols to catch the eye, he designed posters, signage, packaging, and other ephemera for such giants as the BBC, Shell, the Financial Times, Guinness, and the London Underground. During World War II, he was England's official war poster designer, a position from which he oversaw the design and production of hundreds of posters calling on Britons to stand fast and support the Allied troops. "Abram Games: His Life and Work" is the first monograph on this design legend whose work helped to define the look of modern English culture.
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Make it bigger
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An outspoken voice in the world of graphic design for more than twenty years, Paula Scher has developed a worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her incisive, sometimes stinging, critiques of the design profession. In "Make in Bigger", Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in(...)
Make it bigger
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An outspoken voice in the world of graphic design for more than twenty years, Paula Scher has developed a worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her incisive, sometimes stinging, critiques of the design profession. In "Make in Bigger", Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in the United States, and possibly the most famous female graphic designer in the world. Pointed and funny, it is an instructive guide for all those who navigate the difficult path between clients, employees, corporate structures, artists, and design professionals. "Make it Bigger" provides a survey of Scher's groundbreaking work, from her designs as art director at Columbia Records, to her identity for New York's Public Theater, to her recent work for the New York Times, Herman Miller, and the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center planetarium. Paula Scher is a partner in the design firm Pentagram and a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Chrysler Design Award and an AIGA Medal for distinguished service to the profession. Her album cover designs have earned her 4 Grammy award nominations.
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VAS : an opera in Flatland
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Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, VAS: an opera in Flatland - a hybrid image-text novel - demonstrates how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history, gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are. "VAS" combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in(...)
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January 2004, Chicago
VAS : an opera in Flatland
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Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, VAS: an opera in Flatland - a hybrid image-text novel - demonstrates how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history, gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are. "VAS" combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerges from their juxtapositions, harmonies, or discords. Utilizing a wide and historical sweep of representations of the body - from pedigree charts to genetic sequences - "VAS" is, finally, the story of finding one's identity within the double helix of language and lineage. A novel by Steve Tomasula. Art & design by Stephen Farrell.
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Space graphysm
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Presents recent Japanese architectural projects for which graphic design plays the leading role. With the frequently award-winning designs of Hiromura Masaaki. The projects are showcased and discussed in four sections : System - information design to clarify the structure of buildings. Graphysm - the use of typography in spaces to clarify the purpose of the(...)
Space graphysm
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Presents recent Japanese architectural projects for which graphic design plays the leading role. With the frequently award-winning designs of Hiromura Masaaki. The projects are showcased and discussed in four sections : System - information design to clarify the structure of buildings. Graphysm - the use of typography in spaces to clarify the purpose of the space. Presentation - graphic design for exhibitions and installations. Visual Identity - creating a visual identity for a space or building.
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Ruedi Baur fonde en 1989 Intégral Ruedi Baur et associés. Son champs d'activité se concentre principalement sur l'identité visuelle et la signalétique - il est notamment l'auteur de la signalétique du centre Georges-Pompidou. Ce livre accompagne l'exposition "Quotidien visuel" présentée à la galerie Anatome à Paris.
Intégral Ruedi Baur et associés
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Ruedi Baur fonde en 1989 Intégral Ruedi Baur et associés. Son champs d'activité se concentre principalement sur l'identité visuelle et la signalétique - il est notamment l'auteur de la signalétique du centre Georges-Pompidou. Ce livre accompagne l'exposition "Quotidien visuel" présentée à la galerie Anatome à Paris.
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Roman Cieslewicz
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S'il fallait caractériser, vite, le talent de ce surdoué polonais émigré en France dès 1963, c'est le mot «jaillissement» qui s'imposerait tant son œuvre témoigne, dès ses débuts, d'une effervescence de l'imagination servie par une surprenante aisance à manier les signes graphiques, lettres et couleurs incluses, des signes qu'il mène à un point d'exaspération d'une(...)
Roman Cieslewicz
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S'il fallait caractériser, vite, le talent de ce surdoué polonais émigré en France dès 1963, c'est le mot «jaillissement» qui s'imposerait tant son œuvre témoigne, dès ses débuts, d'une effervescence de l'imagination servie par une surprenante aisance à manier les signes graphiques, lettres et couleurs incluses, des signes qu'il mène à un point d'exaspération d'une stupéfiante efficacité. Ses noirs cernent rigoureusement le propos, ses rouges font flamber la page. Les directeurs de communication et ceux de la presse illustrée ne s'y sont pas trompés qui l'ont chargé de donner à leurs produits une image de modernité et d'extrême spécificité. Affiches de cirques et d'opéras, de musées et de films, campagnes publicitaires, logotypes et alphabets, photomontages et collages, tout lui est bon à démontrer, avec une audace parfaitement contrôlée, son exceptionnelle virtuosité.
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Non-format love song
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Non-Format is a London-based design studio comprised of the Norwegian Kjell Ekhorn and the Brit Jon Forss. This creative team has built a formidable international reputation with exceptional graphic design and illustrations that are strikingly innovative and fresh yet have a timelessness that goes beyond fleeting style trends. The monograph Non-Format presents the full(...)
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January 1900, Berlin
Non-format love song
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Non-Format is a London-based design studio comprised of the Norwegian Kjell Ekhorn and the Brit Jon Forss. This creative team has built a formidable international reputation with exceptional graphic design and illustrations that are strikingly innovative and fresh yet have a timelessness that goes beyond fleeting style trends. The monograph Non-Format presents the full spectrum of their work, which ranges from delicate drawings for album covers to riveting advertisements for Coke and Nike as well as pristine graphic design for publications such as Varoom or the UK music magazine The Wire. In addition to their best project work for clients from the music, fashion and advertising industries as well as for culture and the arts, Non-Format also contains original work that was created exclusively for the book.
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Profile Pentagram design
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Pentagram, founded in 1972, is one of the most influential graphic, product, and architectural design firms in the world. Included is a foreword on Pentagram’s history and evolution by Rick Poynor, founder of the British graphic-design magazine Eye.
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July 2004, London, New York
Profile Pentagram design
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Pentagram, founded in 1972, is one of the most influential graphic, product, and architectural design firms in the world. Included is a foreword on Pentagram’s history and evolution by Rick Poynor, founder of the British graphic-design magazine Eye.
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As Bruno Munari wrote in 1961, “The biggest hindrance to understanding a work of art is wanting to understand.” And so he has written this diminutive book of theorems, this witty, sincere book of enlightening poems, for the struggling art viewer. To excerpt from individual poems written between 1945 and 1960: if leonardo's gioconda/had legs/she would leave art/and return(...)
Bruno Munari : teoremi sull'arte / art theorems / art théorèmes
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As Bruno Munari wrote in 1961, “The biggest hindrance to understanding a work of art is wanting to understand.” And so he has written this diminutive book of theorems, this witty, sincere book of enlightening poems, for the struggling art viewer. To excerpt from individual poems written between 1945 and 1960: if leonardo's gioconda/had legs/she would leave art/and return to reality ... is the choice of subject important?/raphael's marriage of the virgin/art/john brown's marriage of the virgin/not art/art isn't the subject ... a hundred lovers can even understand realism/a million admirers/will reject concrete art/with all their might ... in italy art is supposed to be italian/in poland polish/in turkey turkish/and if a turk goes to paint in poland/what sort of art should he do?/and what if poland occupies turkey? ... ministers and dictators/noblemen/the bored rich/sportsmen/dissatisfied professionals/worldly galleries/obliging critics/welcoming newspapers/opening cocktails/lots of people/art no.
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Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugène Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one(...)
Massin
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Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugène Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one of the key exponents in the development of post-war graphic design. Wolff charts Massin's wide-ranging career with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning THE BALD PRIMA DONNA (1964) and LETTER AND IMAGE (1970). Wolff carried out her research in close collaboration with Massin, gaining unrivaled access to the Massin collection in Chartres as well as the designer's personal archives. MASSIN includes preparatory sketches, letters, and finished works, photographed especially for this book.
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October 2007, London
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