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Karel Teige: O fotomontáži (cont'd); John Heartfield (Berlin): Knižnà obálka; Piet Zwart (Holan
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NYPL Digital Gallery; Jan 1, 1934; ; 273 Words
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Cutting edge
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The Architects' Journal; Apr 7, 2005; ; 700+ Words
...fragments from Karel Teige - and Poland are also represented, along with the brilliant Dutch: Paul Schuitema and Piet Zwart especially. Zwart's page from Trio Printers is what Becker calls 'almost an alchemy of type'. [Author Affiliation] David...
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Dutch drift - a century of design
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The Architects' Journal; Jan 15, 2009; ; 700+ Words
...1929, the typographer (and sometimeBauhaus teacher) Piet Zwart considered his compatriots held back by 'machine romanticism...of the Amsterdam school (including Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer, van der Mey's colleagues) and the ubiquitous...
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Amsterdam: Filmmuseum
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Journal of Film Preservation; Dec 1, 1998; ; 700+ Words
...only amount to about 15% of the entire collection, they contain interesting designs by Dolly Rdemann, Frans Bosen, Piet Zwart and several others. In the Netherlands original foreign designs were often used for foreign films (which always formed...
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Visual agility
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The Spectator; May 7, 2005; ; 700+ Words
...gallery 2); a whole room of original artwork (gallery 3). And consummate individual pieces: the poetic delicacy of Piet Zwart's Trio Printers' (a booklet page); the exquisite minimalism of Ladislav Sutnar's 'The Minimal House' (another...
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LETTER: The Dutch make the most of their stars - why can't we?(Letter to the editor)
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Design Week; Jul 17, 2008; 445 Words
...Holland are beautifully designed. At the Gemeente Museum in the Hague I stumbled upon an inspired exhibition devoted to Piet Zwart. Not a single room, but seven or eight. It's the equivalent of, say, the Hayward Gallery staging an Alan Fletcher...
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Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg to sell the Joshua P. Smith collection of photographs on October 16, 2003 at its worldwide headquarters in Chelsea, 450 West 15TH Street, New York City.
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PR Newswire; Sep 11, 2003; 700+ Words
...works include photographs from the pioneering years of Modernism, the 1920s and 1930s. The sale opens with works by Piet Zwart, representing the Dutch avant-garde. His portrait of a photographer tilted at a vertiginous Modernist angle exemplifies...
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Obituary: Herbert Spencer
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The Independent - London; Apr 2, 2002; ; 700+ Words
...and Max Bill; there too he met Marianne Mols, whom he married in 1954. He made particular friends in Holland with Piet Zwart and Willem Sandberg. He drew as well as designing, and met other artists and photographers. He took also to photography...
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Making Faces.
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Design Week; Jan 14, 2000; 700+ Words
...of the artists inside. He scissored, doodled, scratched, and fretted the title so every letter was like a little Piet Zwart collage. But for subsequent books he has used conventional typefaces as a starting point. For The 20th Century Art...
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Guys just there to browse.(News)
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The Boston Herald; Nov 6, 2005; ; 675 Words
Byline: Mike Pingree To help men who don't know the bra size of their wives or girlfriends, the Piet Zwart lingerie store in Rotterdam has installed a wall consisting of row upon row of fake breasts of various shapes and sizes. By observing...
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REVIEW: The old guard Avant-Garde.(Avant-Garde Graphics)
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Design Week; Mar 10, 2005; ; 700+ Words
...Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexandr Rodchenko, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters and Piet Zwart. Such a distinguished array makes it compulsory for every serious graphic designer to attend. What you are presented...
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FEATURE/Royal The Hague in the News; New Escher Museum Opens in Heart of City.
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Business Wire; Oct 4, 2002; 700+ Words
...contemporary work but will also exhibit material from the photographic collection of the Gemeentemuseum, which includes work by Piet Zwart, Paul Citroen, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Blanca and Dana Lixenberg. In addition, it will work hand in hand with...
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Report from Boston: splice of life. ('Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942,' Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts)
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Art in America; Feb 1, 1993; ; 700+ Words
...by the well-known Soviet artists El Lissitzky and Gustav Klutsis as well as the lesser-known Dutch photomonteurs Piet Zwart and Paul Schuitema. Montage drew upon the energies and dilemmas of modern existence and became a spirited visual theater...
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MUSEUMS: Graphic facility.
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Design Week; Jul 3, 2008; 700+ Words
...about 5 per cent of the population of the US, has had an entirely disproportionate influence on their business. From Piet Zwart and Willem Sandberg to Ootje Oxenaar and Wim Crouwel, from Kessels Kramer and Irma Boom to Experimental Jetset and Mevis...
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Taking issue.(Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture)(Book Review)
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Afterimage; Nov 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words
...kinds of distortions familiar from the childhood game of telephone. Fuller, who is a reader in media design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, appears to have encountered media ecology somewhere very far down the line...
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MODERNISM: Thoroughly modern.
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Design Week; Feb 16, 2006; 700+ Words
...years 1914 to 1939 and will include graphic design, collage and prints by Gustav Klucis, Tschichold, Herbert Bayer, Piet Zwart, Karel Teige and Ladislav Sutnar. The last significant wave of interest in this period of Modernism among British designers...
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WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL HE CREATED THE ICONIC COVER FOR 'JURASSIC PARK', JAMES ELLROY CALLS HIM THE 'WORLD'S GREATEST BOOK-JACKET DESIGNER' AND OLIVER SACKS ALWAYS INSISTS ON USING HIM. MEET CHIP KIDD, THE ROCK STAR OF GRAPHICS.
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The Sunday Telegraph London; Nov 4, 2007; ; 700+ Words
...from a chromed helicopter ejector seat to countless lamps. The walls are covered with pieces by designers, such as Piet Zwart, there's more Eileen Gray and comic-book art by Alex Ross and Frank Miller. Sitting framed by a view of Manhattan...
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WHAT'S ON: Typographica.
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Creative Review; Oct 1, 2009; 476 Words
...The journal brought together concrete poetry, avant-garde type and photo- documentary, and featured the work of Piet Zwart, Dieter Rot, and Alexander Rodchenko, among many others. Published by Lund Humphries, Typographica embraced the...
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Now, a wall made up of "fake breasts"!
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The Hindustan Times; Nov 3, 2005; 343 Words
...fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends. Wendy Rameckers, who works at the Piet Zwart Institute for Retail and Design in Rotterdam, has made a wall consisting of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. She...
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WHAT'S ON: Graphics Museum.
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Creative Review; Jul 3, 2008; 600 Words
...retrospective exhibition of 100 years of Dutch graphic design kicks things off. Included in this are classic works from Piet Zwart, Wim Crouwel and Erik Kessels, amongst many others, all of which will be set in the context of the times. Also forming...
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