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The new Pantone Plus Series

Posted on 19/05/10.

This video gives a rare and amazing inside look at Pantone and the development of the new Plus Series.

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Anton Stankowski

Posted on 10/05/10.

Anton Stankowski (June 18, 1906 - December 11, 1998) was a German graphic designer, photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. His work is noted for straddling the camps of fine and applied arts by synthesising information and creative impulse. He was inspired by the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Malevich and Kandinsky. Stankowski advocated graphic design as a field of pictorial creation that requires collaboration with free artists and scientists. Despite producing many unique examples of concrete art and photographics, Stankowski is best known for designing one of our favourite icons, the simple trademark of the Deutsche Bank.

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Pneumatici

Posted on 26/04/10.

A classic poster from 1963 by design legend Massimo Vignelli. The Italian once has said, “If you can design one thing, you can design everything,” and this is reflected in his broad range of work ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage… Vignelli works firmly within the Modernist tradition, and focuses on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all of his work.

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Cover by Wim

Posted on 16/04/10.

This classic is a book cover for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, designed by one of our favourites Wim Crouwel in 1966. It doesn’t get much better than this.
ELSKEN, ED VAN DER - Sweet Life.1966. Cloth-covered boards (hardcover), illustrated dustjacket (with protective mylar), 29 x 29 cms., (32) pp. text in Dutch + 179 fine black-and-white plates in photogravure.

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The Swing Era

Posted on 13/04/10.

We just came across this book and its fantastic cover in a local thrift store. A “break” in the Lindy Hop is shown in this high-speed action picture taken in 1943 by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. Dancers Kaye Popp and Stanley Catron demonstrate the dance, named originally for Lindbergh’s 1927 flight to Paris. Also seen here is another image from the same series. More to come from the great Gjon Mili soon, watch this space.

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A Creative Review

Posted on 05/04/10.

Rounding off March nicely our work for Dorsch Gallery was featured on the Creative Review blog. There is a nice description of the work by CR Senior Writer Gavin Lucas, and a quote from our Creative Director. Creative Review magazine was launched in London in 1980 and is the leading visual communication journal. It now has subscribers in over 80 countries and readers online in over 120.

Link: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/march/dorsch-gallery-identity

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Henry Wolf

Posted on 26/03/10.

Henry Wolf was an Austrian-born American graphic designer, photographer and art director best known for his art direction of Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and Show magazines in the 1950s and ‘60s. He worked with photographers Melvin Sokolsky, Art Kane, and one of our favourites Richard Avedon, before launching his own photography studio in New York’s Upper East Side. Although most famous for his magazine covers, we like this is a double page spread advert for Papermate. 

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