April 15th, 2011

1950a Fashion Print & Wallpaper

“1950s Fashion Print” is the latest book I got from Amazon. This book is a great resource for fashion prints that covered the postwar designs of the 1950′s. You can see the creativity of this era with hundreds of whimsical, talented, and new approach by design greats such as Maimekko, Maija Isola, Lucienne Day, and Robert stewart. If you are studying anything related to this field, this book is an invaluable source of reference where you can find illustrations, originals art, and prints. Among the imagery you will find a nice introduction to what you are seeing.Definintely a must have.

If you want to own these amazing 50′s look in your house, the wallpaper from the Sanderson 50’s collection is the best. They features several wall papers that combines original 1950′s designs from the Sanderson archive with designs from contemporary artists who have taken great inspiration from this era.

February 3rd, 2011

LIFE Magazine, 1950

This cute b/w picture is a part of a million photos from the LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by google. It is taken by LIFE Magazine’s staff photographer Peter Stackpole dated at August 08, 1950.

These images are living proof that great design are timeless and lasts forever. The amazing thing is that not only can you purchase a framed print for $89.99 on the google site but you can also see never-before-seen images for free!

August 26th, 2010

Eames Catalogue Raisonne

On the Eames office website, I found some cool cover designs of the Eames catalog dated back to the 50′s to 60′s. One of my favorite is the picture above because of the way they framed the chair. Although it’s graphic and cropped, it still reads and the use of negative space is also great.

“When we say a CATALOGUE RAISONNE includes ALL of a body of work we mean EVERYTHING. As with the best Catalogue Raisonnes, our Eames Catalogue Raisonne will include not only individual illustrated listings of each design, but also, reproductions of all the original sales material in which these designs are featured.” You can download their catalog as a pdf  here.

Despite the Eames office being located very close to where I live, I keep forgetting to make a visit. I’ll probably give it a shot this weekend.

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