When Karel Martens began studying art in Holland in the late 1950s, “graphic design” did not even exist as its own course of study. Today he is widely recognized as one of the most important practitioners of that very discipline, with an esteemed client list that includes major publishers,…
Emak-Bakia (1926), directed by Man Ray
(Source: swinglargo, via inritus)
School of Design booth (University review 2012)
The two courses our school has to offer are Industrial design (red) and Visual communications (blue). Depending on the colour of the monogram one would look trough, you are only able to see one of the courses, while the other one becomes more translucent and invisible. Or you could just enjoy the cohesion of the two!
The booth features the school projects done by our students, ranging from chairs, lamps, vases and re-designed furniture al the way to books, posters, visual identity and typography. Other advertising material, such as stickers works in the same way!
Alma Savar, Anta Bucevic and Lana Grahek in collaboration with Niko Crncevic, Petra Vrdoljak and Stanislav Kostic. (last photo)
we made this!
Helen Frankenthaler at work, photographed by Ernst Haas (1969).
William Burroughs would have been a cool 99 today…
Kerouac on Burroughs in Vanity of Duluoz:
“When I had heard about ‘Will Hubbard’ I had pictured a stocky dark-haired person of peculiar intensity because of the reports about him, the peculiar directness of his actions, but here had come walking into my pad tall and bespectacled and thin in a seersucker suit as tho he’s just returned from a compound in Equatorial Africa where he’d sat at dusk with a martini discussing the peculiarities… Tall, 6 foot 1, strange, inscrutable because ordinary-looking (scrutable), like a shy bank clerk with a patrician thin-lipped cold bluelipped face, blue eyes saying nothing behind steel rims and glass, sandy hair, a little wispy, a little of the wistful German Nazi youth as his soft hair fluffles in the breeze….”
Photo - Allen Ginsberg: William Burroughs in 1953. (Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)
