Very nice swiss design by Aiden Grennelle at Image Now for Sweettalk 23 in Dublin.
[tags]Helvetica, sweettalk, dublin[/tags]
Swiss Heritage
Blanka and Candy present 50 years of Helvetica, Design Museum, London 19 July – 31 August.
The 50 exhibition imagines the world from the perspective of Helvetica itself, highlighting events and inspirational things it has seen- and been influenced by – during its lifetime, from the lunar moon landing to the first British nudist camp. For the exhibition, 50 leading designers and graphic artists from around the world have joined forces with Blanka and Candy to create a visual diary of 50 separate events from the last half century. The exhibition is a birthday party that pays homage to Helvetica’s massive influence on our visual culture. Long live Helvetica… Happy Birthday!
Blanka and Candy have invited 50 leading designers and graphic artists to produce 50 images. Each artist has produced a 50cm x 50 cm print in an edition of 50, available online from blanka.co.uk for £50 each. Each print is produced using Epson Archival Giclee
Inkjet technology. The exhibition launches in London at the Design Museum and also will appear at the Image Now Gallery in November for Design Week in Ireland. The event is also currently set to visit Edinburgh, Leicester, Newcastle, Paris and New York, ith Sydney, Berlin and Copenhagen [TBC].
Contributors: 1957 Spin, 1958 Vince Frost, 1959 Bleed, 1960 Ros Shiers, 1961 The Designers Republic, 1962 Farrow, 1963 Antoine et Manuel, 1964 Ian Wright, 1965 Fabio Ongarato, 1966 Experimental Jetset, 1967 Parra, 1968 Kam Tang, 1969 Build, 1970 Hamish Muir, 1971 Fred Flade, 1972 Ben Drury, 1973 Darren Firth, 1974 James Jarvis, 1975 Rinzen, 1976 Airside, 1977 Niklaus Troxler, 1978 Jonathan Ellery, 1979 Oliver Jeffers, 1980 Glenn Leyburn, 1981 Barber Osgerby, 1982 Alan Kitching, 1983 Conor & David, 1984 Michael Gillette, 1985 NB Studio, 1986 North, 1987 Cartlidge Levene, 1988 Luca Ionescu, 1989 Jenny Mörtsell, 1990 Emmi, 1991 Marc Atlan, 1992 Alexander Gelman, 1993 Hellovon, 1994 Image Now, 1995 Lars Müller, 1996 Kiosk, 1997 Kim Hiorthøy, 1998 Genevieve Gauckler, 1999 Adrian Shaughnessy, 2000 Winkreative, 2001 Commonwealth, 2002 Angry/Aad, 2003 Phunkstudio, 2004 Luke Prowse, 2005 Vaughan Oliver, 2006 Rob Ryan, 2007 Exhibition overview.
Blanka.co.uk / Candyculture.net produced in asssociation with Veer / Epson / GFSmith / Victionary / Design Museum / Build / Generation Press.
Swiss Legacy will manage the venue of this great event here in Paris. You’ll be of course notified when we got the definitve schedule.
Swissair was perhaps the most prestigious European airline ever. Matching Swissair’s standards of exclusivity, global spirit, and taste, Georg Gerster‘s aerial photography Swissair posters created between 1975 and 1995 are today, with the airline defunct, pricy collectors’ items. This book for the first time present the entire collection.
Schirmer/Mosel. English/German edition. With a text by Georg Gerster. 96 pages, 44 colour plates, 21 x 32.5 cm, softcover.
More information about Georg Gerster.
Swiss Legacy: Who was the poster/s designed for? Who was the client?
David Bennett: The posters, are a self promotional piece about Graphic Design
SL: What was the poster/s designed for – to advertise or promote what?
DB: The posters were designed to remind designers that the computer is only a tool to help us, you still need to know the fundamentals of Graphic Design such as Dots, Lines, type, colour
SL: What was your brief for the design?
DB: To create an on-going series of poster prints, each time evolving them more and more
SL: What inspired the design?
Simplicity
Posters available for purchase : A1 Lithograph – 7£.
Contact David Bennett.
This poster designed by Robert Wilson is just amazing. Clear and clever. A great use of the grid.
About Robert Wilson :
Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called “[America]‘s — or even the world’s — foremost vanguard ‘theater artist’”. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaborations with Philip Glass on Einstein on the Beach, and with numerous other artists, including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Waits, and David Byrne.
Wilson was born in Waco, Texas, and studied Business Administration at the University of Texas from 1959 to 1962. He moved to Brooklyn in 1963, receiving a BFA in architecture from the Pratt Institute in 1965. He also attended lectures by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (widow of László Moholy-Nagy), studied painting with George McNeil, and studied architecture with Paolo Soleri in Arizona.
In 1968, Wilson founded an experimental performance company, the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds (named for a dancer who helped him overcome a speech impediment while a teenager). With this company, he created his first major works, beginning with 1969′s The King of Spain and The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. He began to work in opera in the early 1970s, creating Einstein on the Beach with Philip Glass, which brought the two artists world-wide fame.
In 1983-1984, Wilson planned a performance for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the CIVIL warS: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down; the complete work was to have been 12 hours long, in 6 parts. The production was only partially completed — the full event was cancelled by the Olympic Arts Festival, due to insufficient funds. In 1986, the Pulitzer Prize jury unanimously selected the CIVIL warS for the drama prize, but the supervisory board rejected the choice and gave no drama award that year.
Wilson is known for pushing the boundaries of theatre. His works are noted for their austere style, very slow movement, and often extreme scale in space or in time. The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin was a 12-hour performance, while KA MOUNTain and GUARDenia Terrace was staged on a mountaintop in Iran and lasted seven days.
In addition to his work for the stage, Wilson creates sculpture, drawings, and furniture designs. He won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice Biennale for a sculptural installation.
In 2004, Ali Hossaini offered Wilson a residency at the television channel LAB HD. Since then Wilson has produced dozens of high-definition videos known as the Voom Portraits. Subjects have ranged from royalty and celebrities, including Brad Pitt, to animals, Nobel Prize winners and hobos.
(Source : Wikipedia)
