Film Poster Collection Show

I just found out that my The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards poster from 1993 is part of the show Selection of Film Posters from the Print Collection at the National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia.

Unfortunately, it seems that the National and University Library in Zagreb doesn't have two of my favorite designs for movie posters Who's singing over there and Red and Black.

Who's singing over there

Red and Black

Covered "Head to Toe"

Steve Heller's and my new book Head to Toe: The Nude in Graphic Design, published by Rizzoli,
is currently printing in Hong Kong and it’s gonna come out in April. The book is already announced by Amazon: https://goo.gl/DNTXYQ

"A first-of-its-kind celebration featuring more than 600 examples of the human body as represented in graphic design, this innovative book will appeal to art directors, graphic designers, and design fans. This groundbreaking volume investigates and illuminates a new generation of artists and the ways that they relate to one of art history’s most storied traditions: nude figure drawing and painting. This informative (and occasionally very cheeky) book demonstrates the ways in which new mediums and new technologies are pushing graphic designers to previously untold heights of artistic representation, thereby cementing the graphic designer’s place alongside more traditional mediums (drawing, painting) in art history and criticism."

Slipcase, cover, and the book were designed by my studio. Cover and slipcase photography by Zeljko Koprolcec. Typography used in the book is Fedra Sans by Nikola Djurek (Typonine).

Slipcase

Cover

Donation to MoMA

A few pictures from today's visit to Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989 show that opened at MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) on November 13th.

I'm very happy to let you know that one of my gifts to MoMA, Paul Rand's IBM Supply Kit from 1979 is part of the show. What makes me even more happier is that the poster Tendencije 4 by my old friend, a Croatian designer Ivan Picelj (1924-2011) is also part of the show.

More about the show here: https://goo.gl/6cgr5X

Workshop at FH JOANNEUM

Students from the Institute of Design & Communication, part of FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria, just put up a little poster show at their school. The show is a result of our poster workshop titled Social Issues that was held on October 30th, 2017.

The Communication Design majors did a great job, especially considering the workshop lasted
only one day.

The workshop was made possible thanks to the amazing effort of Tomislav Bobinec.

Unpublished Alack Sinner page

A week ago, at the opening of Jose Munoz's show HISTORIETAS: A Constellation of Meanings at the Scott Eder Gallery, I acquired this signed and numbered print of Alack Sinner unpublished page.

Tadanori Yokoo Essay

I was surprised and honored when Tadanori Yokoo recently asked me to write an essay about him for the new issue of IDEA magazine, one of the most respectable graphic design magazines in the world. The new issue is titled Recent Works of Tadanori Yokoo Since 2010.

For those of you who are not very familiar with graphic design, Tadanori Yokoo and Milton Glaser

are the most recognized and celebrated designers of our time. 

Sinner Comes Back Home

Last week, after not seeing each other for 40 years, I saw Jose Munoz again at the opening of his show HISTORIETAS: A Constellation of Meanings at the Scott Eder Gallery.

And I got this two beautiful dedications in my favorite episodes of Alack Sinner which he created with the writer Carlos Sampayo.

Illustration for President Bill Clinton's article

I’m very pleased to let you know that in today’s The New York Times International Edition (12. 04. 2017) an article by President Bill Clinton Americans Must Decide Who

We Really Are is accompanied by my illustration. Art directed by Corinne Myller.

The article can be read here: https://goo.gl/qRcPkm

Asia-Pacific Design

A Chinese Sandu Publishing company just released a new book Asia-Pacific Design and among others they included our Seafood Bar and 11 Industries logos.

Ms. Gloria

Every day something happens in New York. Very often something good, but very rarely right in front of your studio. Today in front of our studio there was a street co-naming event. Our East 32nd Street and Third Avenue became "Ms Magazine Way" because Ms. Magazine was established in our building. Actually on the same floor where my studio is (appropriately marked in pink).

The first publisher and editor of the magazine, Gloria Steinem gave a speech and helped unveil the name of the street. That gave me a chance to talk to Gloria and take a picture with her. For me this was quite special because Gloria was one of the first people whom I met in 1986 when I came to New York. Through these years we have seen each other from time to time, but this was something quite special.

Out on the street

We just got a few photographs of the poster I designed for the play Einstein's Dreams by The Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.

Omg now I am a part of academia

I just got a new book Jolted Images: Unbound Analytic (Eastern European Screen Cultures). It's a serious academic book written by Pavle Levi, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

"Jolted Images brings together a large cast of mainstream and avant-garde cineastes, artists, photographers, comics creators, poets, and more, to reflect on a wide range of phenomena from the realms of cinema and visual culture in the Yugoslav region, broader Europe, and North America. Far from a staid monograph, the book takes a cue from filmmaker Dušan Makavejev, who once wrote that there are times when it is necessary "to jolt art, no matter what the outcome"; to that end, the book infuses its analysis with playful, creative transfiguration of the material at hand."

I am especially honored not only because my work is on the cover of the book, but also because there is a mentioning of me in the book.

You can buy the book here: https://goo.gl/r8tfbj

AIAXAIA car

You can't have a luxury yacht, without a luxury car.

That's why, after we designed the identity for AIAXAIA luxury sailing yacht, we were asked to do a wrap design for the AIAXAIA car, a Ferrari 458 Challenge that competes in one-make racing also known as spec racing in North America.

You can see more images here: http://www.aiaxaia.com/racing/

"Distant Early Warning" by Marshall McLuhan

Last week I got this beautiful present, an unpacked deck of cards Distant Early Warning. They were created by Marshall McLuhan in 1969.

A deck of playing cards designed to be used as a problem-solving device. First edition. (It was originally given to subscribers to the “DEW-Line Newsletter.”) In slipcase: choice of colors green, red, black, blue, or brown. Cards cellophane-wrapped. Includes inserted instruction sheet.

"The cards are fantastic and are real playing cards rather than simply prompt cards. I think this might be one of the first examples of playing cards as a non military political/social tool. Military propaganda units have used playing cards since before WWII as a means to both identify and lampoon their enemies. Considering the publishing date of 1969, (when anti Vietnam War sentiment was high). Although there's no overtly antiwar messaging in McLuhan's deck.

There are some wonderful statements in the deck. It's full of the humour, sharpness and provocativeness that you can't help but associate with McLuhan. A fabulous object with several pithy statements that seem as apt today as ever." – Murray Grigo-McMahon