Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake changed the world of fashion and design, by creating new fabrics and architectural designs that made him a revolutionary figure and a pioneer in the world of fashion. Moreover, before studying fashion, Miyake studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Japan. In the 1980s, Miyake began experimenting with […]
Florence Henri was a female artist and photographer, and one of the most revolutionary surrealist photographers and painters of the 20th century, who changed the artistic perception of light and space. In addition, she was a crafted pianist who incorporated music in her artworks. Henri manipulated light and objects in order to create a dialogue […]
Sir Quentin Blake is an English cartoonist, most prominently known for his groundbreaking paintings in Roald Dahl’s revolutionary novel Matilda. He also painted 17 other Road Dahl books. Since the 1990s, Blake has had an additional career as exhibition curator, curating shows in the National Gallery, the British Library and the Musée du Petit Palais […]
Paul Bonet (1889- 1971) was one of the most celebrated French binding and book cover designers. His bookbinding career started as merely a hobby, and he was initially a modeler of wooden fashion mannequins until his friend asked him to design the cover for his book collection. This was a breaking point for Bonet, and […]
Berenice Abbot was an American photographer, and a central bridge between the cultural, photographic and artistic hubs of New York and Paris. She made vital connections with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, who were both crucial leaders of the American avant-garde movement, and in 1921 she moved to Paris and became Man Ray’s assistant. After […]
Almost everyone in the English-speaking world can say that they have heard the phrase “never judge a book by its cover” at one point or another. But looking through the history of book covers and the art of book design, this phrase falls short and renders itself as false. For hundreds of years, the book […]
Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director, producer, and a leading innovator of the pop art movement. His works display avid criticism of American pop and celebrity culture, capitalism, and consumerism, rendering him a controversial and yet legendary figure. As part of the aforementioned criticism, he is also known for coining the expression […]
Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi wrote 24 bande desinées (comic albums) called The Adventures of Tintin, under the pen-name Hergé. These comic albums are considered some of the most popular and acclaimed comic works of the 20th century. The protagonist, a young boy named Tintin, is ostensibly Hergé himself, or a manifestation of him. At first, […]
Tadanori Yokoo is one of Japan’s most successful graphic designers, printmakers, and painters. His designs embody personal exposure as well as particular emblems of Japanese culture. He is greatly influenced by Push Pin Studios, a post-WWII graphic design studio (founded in 1954 by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast), which presented simplicity with comic book design […]
Otto Hupp was a German graphic designer whose predilection was mostly for heraldry, painting more than 6,000 coats of arms and writing books on the topic. In addition to painting existing coats of arms, he also created various drafts for municipalities that were applying for and awaiting new coats of arms; his most famous design […]