NOTE SULLA GRAFICA
The small stakes
Music poster
By Jason Munn
Chronicle books san francisco 2010
Collected here for the first time are more than 150 music posters created by graphic artist Jason Munn of "The Small Stakes" fame. Jason Munn's silk-screened posters are unique among the popular modern music poster genre in their graphic and conceptual elegance. With a foreword by "Death Cab for Cutie"'s Nick Harmer, and an interview with prolific poster artist Jay Ryan, this book is a beautiful celebration of art and music with distinctive posters of beloved bands, including Beck, Built to Spill, The Decembrists, Modest Mouse, the National, and many more.
Echoes of the Future Graphic Design & Illustration
Rational Graphic Design and Illustration
Collective visual memory synthesized in today’s graphic design and
illustration.
Editors:
R. Klanten, H. Hellige
Gestalten 2012
Echoes of the Future is a stunning compilation of recent graphic design and illustration that is inspired by our collective visual memory. Today’s young designers are not copying elements from classic modernism, letterpress printing, and other design styles of the past, but rather, they are synthesizing them to create a new aesthetic that emanates quality, timelessness, and sustainability.
This book showcases an up-to-the-minute style trend that
promotes the impression of visual longevity in these times of economic
uncertainty and contrasts sharply with the rapidly shifting styles of previous
years that seemed out-of-date almost immediately. While the work featured in
Echoes of the Future deliberately seems older, one realizes how clearly
different and contemporary it is when confronted with genuine examples from the
past. This aspiration to visual
longevity contrasts sharply with the rapidly shifting styles of previous years
that seemed out-of-date almost immediately. Especially in these times of
economic uncertainty, more and more brands, products, and businesses are using
designs that promote the impression of stability.
The modenist
The discovery of classical modernism in current graphic design.
Editors:
R. Klanten, H. Hellige
Gestalten 2011
Today’s designers and illustrators are synthesizing the best elements from past eras of graphic design to create a new visual language with a reduced and rational approach. The Modernist documents this uniquely contemporary, yet timeless aesthetic that is built upon the rediscovery and seamless melding of classical type elements and collage of the 1950s, the geometric patterns and graphic elements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the vector graphics and computer-aided montage of the 1990s. With its fresh perspective on the legacy of past craftsmanship and quality in outstanding current work, The Modernist expands our understanding of what modern graphic design can be.
After going through an eclectic, baroque, and iconic phase, today’s design is again taking its visual cues from functionalism and pragmatism. Young graphic designers and illustrators are working in a way that is influenced by the principles of classic modernism. They avoid excess or exaggeration to create enduring work of the highest quality.
The Modernist is a collection of work in graphic design and illustration that is created with minimal intrusions. The deliberately limited palette of colors, tools, and geometric forms that it uses makes the work seem both contemporary and timeless.
The Modernist documents the current trend of a reduced, matter-of-fact, and practical design approach. It presents examples of unobtrusive but effective design solutions that appear to have been created in a past era. Instead, the book shows that it is only our idealistic conception of modernism that gives earlier work attributes that it never actually had.
