Somewhere along the well-trodden path marked by El Lissitzky and Lester Beall walks Shepard Fairey. And, like the famous propaganda artists of yesteryear, Fairey prefers red and has a flair for dramatic perspective—although that is where the similarities end. His latest poster coincides with a new grassroots initiative by moveon.org titled Power Up America, and [...]
On the Fast Company blog, Valerie Casey has written a deliberately provocative piece about the evolution (or lack thereof) of product design aesthetics over the past decade. Having recently judged the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), she observes a striking degree of stylistic continuity across a diverse range of objects, which is demonstrated via a [...]
In my last post I briefly introduced the classic diagram of the Eames studio model—a brilliant and simple summary of how they envisioned their practice and its relationship with clients and society at large. Apart from the telling intersection between studio, client and society that for them defined successful work, what I like most about [...]