Showing posts with label modernism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modernism. Show all posts

15.12.10

Max Dalton




Meet Max Dalton! I'll let him do his own introduction, since I don't think I could do it justice:
In order to stop being a stranger to you I will tell you some things about me. I'm Maxim Dalton, an illustrator living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been illustrating since I was two or three, just like any other kid, and began to take it seriously at the age of thirteen. In the lats twenty years I've been involved in several projects like drawing humor strips for a local magazine, creating animations for the TV and doing some editorial illustration. I'm very open-minded and my interests are very dissimilar, but I'm not going to enumerate them all because I don't want to bore you. I just may say that I like to write, oil paint, take photographs, play music and read about animal behavior. I speak five languages and lived in Barcelona and Paris. I also spent some time in New York. I feel comfortable when I find myself surrounded by mid century objects and imagery, and they all inspire me to do the best thing I know: to draw. Now, you can call me Max.


He sounds pretty rad to me. His illustrations are totally legit and it was hard to select only a few for here. I highly recommend looking through his illustrations and then checking out his blog. Personally, I'd love to have his Cocktail Party Cut Out Set. Brilliant ;)

4.12.10

Hello Couture







via WANKEN: "Stumbled upon this elegant project by Ryan Atkinson on Behance. The project was a mini poster series that brought design, typography and a bit of fashion together as a collaboration."

I'm dying from the sexiness.

More on Behance. (It's so worth it)

26.4.10

Scandinavian Logos




I agree with Nubby Twiglet, these logos from the 60s an 70s are totally swoon-worthy.

31.3.10

Wim Crouwel


From Grain Edit:

Wim Crouwel fans rejoice!

The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) is a dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making. They have an impressive archive of work by Wim Crouwel. Over 500 original designs by Wim and his partners at Total Design lay in wait for your perusing pleasure. Enjoy!

29.10.09

Wishlist- Tiny Mid-Century Modern Chairs




Look at these gorgeous little goodies! I have mentioned before that I have a great love of chairs, and today on Mod Cloth I have found these. Scaled down versions of iconic chairs from probably the best and coolest era for design. I would, of course, love to have all of them.

The only downside is that you can't choose which chair you buy--each one is supposed to be a surprise, which I think is silly if you want to collect them all. And this is true for any place you want to buy them from (unless you intend to buy the set of 9)

There are 5, count 'em FIVE volumes of this dynamic collection. So be sure to snatch them up now before they're obsolete.

BUY

31.8.09

Interpol poster


This is a truly stunning poster by the firm Factor 27. I found it in a book of Rock posters my Roommate owns. It's just so... I don't know. Adjectives escape me right now. It's a transcendent design is what it is. I love it.

Factor 27. (The only site I could find representative of their work)

24.7.09

The Swiss Style


I love the Swiss Style. I related with it before I knew what it was. Due to a happy accident I was assigned to do a presentation for a chapter in my History of Graphic Design book (for my class with the same name) and the chapter was simple "The International Typographic System", otherwise known as the Swiss Style).

Anyway, I got a heads up from swissmiss on my twitter this morning. There's a great article over at Smashing Magazine all about this modern, minimalist graphic design style. Please do check it out.

14.7.09

Wishlist- TOBIAS chair from IKEA


Oh my god, wow. I'm going to need to start blogging more about architecture because more and more these days I'm being drawn towards amazing and glorious chairs.

I was at IKEA and spotted this and ran right towards it--to see that it is $99. At IKEA of all places... Anyway. It's a modernist dream. Very minimal. And beautiful. I just... I must have it, there's no question.

BUY

20.6.09

Gorgeous type


This is a bit Bauhaus-feeling. I thought at first it was from the 60's. It's so beautiful.

FELIX MÜTHE (I encourage you to check out the website. There's not that much work, but it's all quite stunning)

27.5.09

Where does it come from?


This comes from a time when everything was design without it trying to be. I wish it could be like that still.
I found this on Facebook. It was the image for one of those I.Q. quizzes.. I thought it was so fantastic I took a screen shot. And now here it lay.