Thinking Gielijn Escher. 04 22 1945
Gieljn Escher was born in Oegstgeest, a town in the province of South Holland, on 22 April 1945. Gielijn was exposed with graphic design at the age of five. Gielijn started to collect orange-wrappers and create labels. He admired the work Jan Bons, Dick Elffers, Nicolaas Wijnberg, Herbert Leupin and Raymond Savignac. He started with...
Thinking Celestino Piatti. 01 05 1922
“You can draw an owl a thousand times, and never find out its secret”. Celestino Piatti was born in Wagen-Bruttisellen, Switzerland on January 5th 1922. Piatti was trained at Kunstgewerbeschule under Ernst and Max Gubler in Zurich. He was a member of Fritz Buhler’s team from 1944-1948. In 1948, he established his own graphic design...
Thinking Donald Brun. 11 30 1909
Donald Brun was born on October 30 1909 in Basle, Switzerland. He studied at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule while he was working in art studio in Basle as a graphic designer. He continued his education at the Akademie fur Freie und Angewandte Kunst in Berlin. He established his studio at 1933. He created two pavilion for...
Thinking Kurt Wirth. 09 12 1917
“Drawing is a special form of presence of mind, a process which doesn’t tolerate being postponed or adjourned.”
Thinking Kurt Hauert. 07 19 1924
“it was my desire to win back the lost, unprejudiced perception in an over-informed and over visualize world. To find new, creative impulses through the rediscovery of the free abidance of ‘material’ in our natural surroundings.’
Thinking Eryk Lipinski. 07 12 1908
Eryk Lipinski was born on 12 of July 1908 in Cracow, Poland. In 1928, his caricature was published in magazine Pobudka. In 1933, he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts for 6 years. During his study, he confounded with Zbigniew Mitzer and became a chief editor a satirical newspaper Szpilki in 1935. After the...
Thinking Hans Fabigan. 06 14 1901
Hans Fabigan was bron on June 14, 1901 in Vinenna, Austria. He learned his art skill at the Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. He started his career in Vienna and moved to Berlin in 1927 as a fashion designer, graphic artist and cartoonist. In 1933, he returned to Vienna and worked as head of...
Thinking Dick Bruna Boekomslagen
Title: Dick Bruna boekomslagen Hardcover: 120 pages Publisher: Centraal Museum Utrecht,The Netherlands Language: Dutch Size: 240 x 220 mm / 9.4 x 8.7 inch A very nice book to all Dick Bruna‘s fan. Boekomslage means book cover in Dutch. In this book, there are 107 color illustration of Bruna’s book covers. This book is designed...