Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Diseño. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Diseño. Mostrar todas las entradas

jueves, julio 21, 2011

Puños de hierro


Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State



"Steven Heller analiza en este volumen ilustrado el arte, el grafismo y los artilugios propagandísticos creados por los gobiernos totalitarios de la Alemania Nazi, la Italia Fascista y los regimenes comunistas de la URSS y China. “Como cualquier campaña de identidad corporativa, el régimen totalitario exige a sus ciudadanos lealtad a la marca”, dice Heller que con estas palabras resume uno de los principales objetivos del libro: mostrar cómo estos regimenes utilizaron el diseño gráfico como instrumento de poder.


La esvástica y la tipografía gótica de la Alemania de Hitler, los pósteres aerodinámicos y futuristas y las camisas negras de Mussolini, el realismo social de la Rusia de Stalin y el Pequeño Libro Rojo de Mao son símbolos reconocidos en todo el mundo. Todos ellos fueron usados en una gran variedad de propaganda, desde pósteres, revistas y anuncios hasta uniformes, monumentos, banderas y estatuillas. Además, todos los líderes cultivaron unas determinadas características personales (el bigote de Hitler, la calvicie de Mussolini, la perilla de Lenin o la sonrisa de Mao), tratando de transformar sus respectivas individualidades en iconos. Más de cuatrocientas fotografías los recogen en este libro, que cuenta con un capítulo para cada régimen, y que explora además la paleta de color utilizada por cada dictador, las tipografías, y los slogans que se usaron para vender el mensaje totalitario, congregar e influir sobre la población."






jueves, abril 01, 2010

Hard Format

It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now. In fact, we’re not setting ourselves up to supply a canon of classic design – this is a place where we record stuff we like, if you want yet another reproduction of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band there are enough ‘Greatest album covers of all time’ books out there already.





Página web: HardFormat.org



Escuchando... Ghosts (Albert Ayler)

viernes, marzo 12, 2010

martes, marzo 02, 2010

Pósters X


This site is dedicated to the art of X-rated movie posters from the 1960s and 1970s. Considered by most to be the Golden Age of the pornographic movie, the period's rising production budgets generated a dramatic improvement in film quality and plot. Several all-time classics emerged. Deep Throat (1972), Behind The Green Door (1972), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Debbie Does Dallas (1978) were among the many box-office hits – films even the critics admired. The success of two French-produced movies, Emmanuelle (1974) and The Story Of O (1975), also helped introduce the porno movie to the mass market.


Página web: X-RatedCollection.com



Escuchando... Cane Trader (Sloath)

sábado, enero 16, 2010

Lord of the Logos


This book is a collection of work by Christophe Szpajdel, an artist whose fans in the underground black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos. It includes hundreds of powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this musical genre anew. Through his surprising use of aesthetic influences such as art deco and nature, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. This publication, which is done in the style of a black prayerbook, shows not only how he has succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but how he has also expanded the canon of forms it uses.


Fans of underground black metal music call Christophe Szpajdel the Lord of the Logos. This eponymous book is a collection of hundreds of Szpajdel’s powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this genre anew.

The hallmark of Szpajdel’s work is his surprisingly fluid combination of letters with visual elements from art movements such as art deco and art nouveau. But Szpajdel’s most important source of inspiration is nature: roots and trees as well as bats and other creatures. In addition to the impressive selection taken from the thousands of logos this passionate metalhead has already created, Lord of the Logos also contains photos of dark forests, desolate moors, and gnarled branches that are closely related to his work.

Through his use of unusual aesthetic influences, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. He has not only succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but has expanded the canon of forms it uses. The book is done in the style of a black prayerbook, an appropriate choice for an artist whose fans in the black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos.

Lord of the Logos
Designing the Metal Underground

Author: Christophe Szpajdel

Release: January 2010 Available Soon!
Price: € 35,00 / $ 55,00 / £ 32,50
Format: 21 × 26 cm
Features: 272 pages, full color, softcover,
gold embossing
ISBN: 978-3-89955-282-9

Enlace: Gestalten



Escuchando... Dead Weight (Virulence)

jueves, diciembre 24, 2009

Stumptown Printers




Inside Stumptown Printers, in an old industrial building near Portland's docklands, the small team works lovingly with beautiful old brass and iron printing presses, making carefully crafted CD cases for artists in the US and Europe who care what their music packaging looks like. Its three founders fell in love with the machines 10 years ago and clubbed together to buy them. All are convinced that however fast the cyber age moves, as long as humans have hands and eyes, there will always be a need for beautiful objects you can hold.

Mini-documental: Monocle.com/small-business/Stumptown-Printers
Página web: Stumptown Printers



Escuchando... Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Woven Hand)

jueves, diciembre 10, 2009

sábado, noviembre 14, 2009

viernes, octubre 23, 2009

Bad News Brown





Ilustraciones y diseño gráfico por Alexander L. Brown.

Página web
: BadNewsBrown.BlogSpot.com




Escuchando... Once in a Blood Red Moon (Glorior Belli)