Design Bookshelf: GRAPHIS ANNUAL 65-66

Here are some highlights and personal favorite selections from Graphis Annual 65-66. Enjoy! (Above: Lionel Kalish, Time magazine advertisement; click to enlarge)

 

Bayer Team-vide Index - Bayer sedatives graphics

Andrzej Onegin-Dabrowski - i Delfini film poster

Elso Schiavo - Usego advertisement

Dan Reisinger - Julius Caesar poster

Maureen Roffey and Bernard Lodge - Guinness Nonscience pamphlet cover

G. Fankhauser - Flowers for Her

Harry Sehring - Frontiers magazine cover

Hans Jurgen Rau - Living With Conflicts

Gisela Tobler - Giocattoli advertisement

Ewa Frysztak-Witowska - A Kind of Loving film poster

Hannes and Barbara Geissler - Luxair brochure cover

Jerzy Flisak - Satirical Stories book jacket

George Wallder - Night Spot TV credits

Design Bookshelf: GRAPHIS ANNUAL 72/73

Selected scans from Graphis Annual 72/73. Designers credited below each image. Click each image to enlarge. Remember you can pick up Graphis Annual: The Essential 1952-1986 for a great overview of these decades in design. Pictured above: cover for the graphic design magazine Gebauchsgraphik by the great Roman Cieslewicz (see more covers in this Aqua Velvet post by Sandi Vincent).

G. Leblanc ad, Dean Michalkiewicz / Chuck Wimmer / Ray-Domingo

Art Directors Club of Los Angeles newsletter, Don Weller

calendar illustration, Clarence Taylor / Claude Sanders

Cairnmiller Institute annual report, Barbie Tucker

book cover, Willi Baum / Jane Teiko

Clifton W. Karhu / Henry Steiner

Medicament & Environment booklet, Walter Baumann / Studio Rau

Bang & Olufsen booklet, Werner Neertoft / Vagn Henriksen

Naturwissenschaft cover, Erwin Poell (see more at Things To Look At)

GRAPHIS ANNUAL: THE ESSENTIAL 52/86

If you're like me, you know that all you need for limitless design inspiration can be found in any Graphis Annuals ranging from the early 50's to the early 80's. You have obsessively sought out copies of any of these annuals, maybe collecting even whole decades and periods, and spent an embarassing amount of money in the process. If you're smarter than me, you've waited for the release of this book, which collects highlights from these annuals' greatest years and presents them in their original page layouts (like the originals, some designs are in color and some in black-and-white), for one good price. A great gift for young and old design lovers, an amazing reference and resource, this has gotta be one of the essential design books available, a must have. Here's where you can get one.

BOOKS!

New book finds from Japan, here and there, to photograph soon and share...

TOUR FINDS

Some finds from Berlin, Copenhagen and elsewhere on tour. Pics & posts coming in the future...

DESIGN BOOKSHELF: AGI

Happy Friday... These images come from the book Posters by Members of the Alliance Graphique Internationale 1960-1985, edited by Rudolph de Harak and published in '86. The AGI, of which countless international design legends were members, is still active and even has its own Flickr stream. You can head over to MY Flickr for some additional images (and these are only a fraction of this book) and credits for the designers.

DESIGN BOOKSHELF

I consider myself far more talented at collecting neat art books than I am at actually producing art... Thus I give you these photos of my new Ikea bookshelves stocked with all of my favorite sources of inspiration I've collected through the years. I recommend them all, and will be posting more selected images from some of these books soon.

IMAGES OF REVOLUTION

I've scanned some images from a book I picked up at Strand called Images of Revolution: Graphic Art from 1905 Russia. When it comes to scavenging old illustrations, my taste is usually of the cute/adorable variety, but these images are straight-up badass in their darkness, their uncanny surrealism, and their political and allegorical power.

From David King and Cathy Porter's text: "For a few brief months before the 1905 upheaval was smashed, at least 380 satirical journals flooded the streets of Moscow and Saint Petersberg, speaking with a rage that neither arrest nor exile could suppress. The tsar, his ministers, the government, the church, the army: the journals constantly expanded their territory and their targets, demolishing one victim after another and thriving on the massive censorship intended to silence them. An explosive underground language of popular protest emerged, veiled in symbol and allegory."

I love the juxtaposition in these drawings of humor, typical of the political cartoon, with their haunting invocations of Russian folklore, demons and death. If you find a copy of this book in a shop or online I highly recommend picking it up.

'Nightmare' by Pyotr Dobrynin. 'Leshii' No. 1, 1906. Aftermath of Cossack 'punitive expedition'.

'Leshii' No.3, 1906. Drawing by Alexander Kudinov. I love this image of a giant reptilian beast with a man's face crawling over the hills and blending in with the landscape.

'Full Amnesty' by Alexander Kudinov. 'Leshii' No.4, 1906. The colors, composition, and border here reminds me of a tarot card. I love how much mystery this image posesses.

'Varon' (Raven) No.1, 1907. Back and front cover. The raven was a frequent symbol seen in this movement.

'Ovod' (Gladfly) No.2, 1906. Cover. Artist unidentified.

Demons. This book contains many small images resembling bookplates, which aren't associated with any particular artist or journal as far as I can tell.

'Tsarist Army Returning from the Russo-Japanese War,' 'Burya' (Storm), No.4, 1906.


'Sprut' No.15, 1906. Back cover. Quote by Gogol, artist unidentified. The design geek in me can't help but be reminded by this black-and-green color scheme of both the Marber Penguin Crime series and the Rosemary's Baby poster. This is so awesome.

'The View of Earth from the Moon.' 'Sprut' (Octopus) No.8, 1906.

"Leshii' No.1, 1906. Drawing by Pyotr Dobrynin. Click to enlarge this image of a sinister meeting of owls. I love that some of them have their heads turned, looking at us looking at them.


Just badass. 'Has He the Strength...?'. 'Zarevo' No.3, 1906.

Another uncredited miniature illustration, seemingly of some cats checking out a severed head.


'Count Ignatiev' by Boris Kustodiev. 'Adskaya Pochta' (Hell-Post) No.3, 1906. I'm not sure who this Count Ignatiev is, but I'm assuming this is a political caricature of some kind, and a great one at that. Another mini down below of a person eating a bowl of skull soup.

'The Apotheosis of 17 October'. 'Strely' (Arrows), No.9, 1906.

'Pacification' by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. 'Zhupel' (Bugbear) No. 2, 1905.

And the first image at the top of this post, one of my favorites, is titled 'New Year' by Boris Anisfeld, from 'Zhupel' No.3, 1906.

There's so much more where this came from; to see some additional images from this book, check this post at ephemera assemblyman. I'm anxious to read the lengthy text of this book to try to absorb more of the historical story behind this visionary art. If anyone has any comments or context to offer, please leave a comment.