When the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum began to emerge from beneath layers of volcanic ash in the eighteenth century, Europe became captivated by a lost world. Archaeologists, artists, architects, and collectors suddenly found themselves face to face with remarkably preserved frescoes, inscriptions, mosaics, and decorative objects from antiquity. What began as an archaeological […]
Somewhere between graphic design, poetry, and visual art lies a strange and fascinating territory known as Concrete Poetry — or sometimes Visual Poetry. In this form of writing, meaning is carried not only by the words themselves, but by their physical arrangement on the page. Typography becomes structure, rhythm becomes geometry, and language transforms into […]
Born in 1905 in Sankt Pölten and raised in Graz, Franz Krausz was one of the pioneering figures of graphic design in Mandatory Palestine and later in the State of Israel. Trained in Vienna and Berlin, where he was exposed to modernist design, advertising, and typography, Krausz brought to the Middle East a distinctly European […]
Tom Eckersley (1914–1997) was one of Britain’s most influential graphic designers — a pioneer of modern poster design whose work shaped the visual identity of post-war London. Trained at Salford School of Art, he rose to prominence through bold public messaging campaigns, and later co-founded Britain’s first undergraduate graphic design course at the London College […]
It’s hard to imagine modern graphic design without Helvetica — the font that became a symbol of clarity, balance, and universality. Behind this iconic typeface stood Max Miedinger, a Swiss typographer who managed to define an entire design language through order and precision. Developed in 1957 in collaboration with Eduard Hoffmann for the Haas Type […]
Massimo Vignelli was one of those designers who believed that everything in the world can be designed — as long as it follows a clear system of order. His work for Knoll in the 1960s and 70s is the perfect expression of that belief. Vignelli brought to furniture design the same principles that guided his […]
Renato Casaro, born in 1935 in Italy, became one of the defining figures of the golden age of movie posters during the 1970s and 1980s. Before Photoshop, before digital composition, Casaro painted every film by hand — layer upon layer of light, sky, and imagination, conjuring visions that felt almost mythical. His posters for Dune […]
Between the 1940s and 1960s, French publisher Henri Parisot curated Collection L’Âge d’Or — The Golden Age — a visionary book series that united literature, art, and design under a single poetic gesture. Published by José Corti, the series became a living archive of Surrealism, where writers and artists like Leonora Carrington, André Breton, Paul […]
In the landscape of Korean design, Ahn Sang-soo emerged like a quiet storm. Where others saw the Korean alphabet — Hangul — as a mere tool for communication, Ahn saw a universe of forms waiting to be liberated. His work is not only about letters, but about space, rhythm, and the very breath of language. […]
The world of design lost a quiet giant this month with the passing of Joe Caroff at 103, a man whose work has long lived in the cultural imagination, even if his name was not always on the marquee. Across a career that spanned more than six decades, Caroff created over 300 film posters and […]