Pica studio » Modernist https://blog.picastudio.com Random Thoughts Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:01:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 Book Collection: Helvetica Forever https://blog.picastudio.com/2011/06/16/book-collection-helvetica-forever/ https://blog.picastudio.com/2011/06/16/book-collection-helvetica-forever/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:58:17 +0000 http://blog.picastudio.com/?p=423

Helvetica forever: Story of a Typeface
Hardcover: 159 pages
Publisher: Lars Muller
ISBN-13: 978-3037781210
Available at Amazon.

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Here’s a link to a fantastic resource on the life and work of Alvin Lustig, an American Graphic Designer, 1915-1955. Check out the typographic gallery.

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Another wonderful post from grain edit, a gallery of images from Catalog Design Progress: Advancing Standards in Visual Communication by K. Lonberg-Holm and Ladislav Sutnar.

]]> https://blog.picastudio.com/2010/01/08/ladislav-sutnar-design-pioneer/feed/ 0 The new typography at MoMA https://blog.picastudio.com/2010/01/05/the-new-typography-at-moma/ https://blog.picastudio.com/2010/01/05/the-new-typography-at-moma/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:10:07 +0000 http://blog.picastudio.com/?p=138 new-typographyThe New Typography, and exhibition now running at the MoMA, December 23, 2009–July 12, 2010, in the Leonard Dobbs Architecture and Design Gallery.
More images can be found here. | MoMA exhibition info here.

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Lars Muller has recently published a book of graphic design work produced for Geigy between 1940-1970. Here’s a link to a few pics and here’s a link to a few more.
Via grain edit/things to look at.

]]> https://blog.picastudio.com/2009/12/30/corporate-diversity-swiss-design/feed/ 0 Paul Rand’s business card https://blog.picastudio.com/2009/12/29/paul-rands-business-card/ https://blog.picastudio.com/2009/12/29/paul-rands-business-card/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:58:13 +0000 http://blog.picastudio.com/?p=96 While I did once have the opportunity to meet the amazingly talented and sometimes cantankerous Mr. Rand, until now I had never seen his business card before.
Here’s a link to a pic of his card as well as an interesting story.
Via amassblog.

]]> https://blog.picastudio.com/2009/12/29/paul-rands-business-card/feed/ 0 Piet Zwart, dutch graphic designer https://blog.picastudio.com/2009/12/22/piet-zwart-dutch-graphic-designer/ https://blog.picastudio.com/2009/12/22/piet-zwart-dutch-graphic-designer/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:50:57 +0000 http://blog.picastudio.com/?p=84 zwart

A particularly nice slideshow from the Ars Libri collection featuring the work of dutch graphic designer Piet Zwart has been posted on Design Observer. Well worth a look.

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