LP COVERS - VELVET SEASON & THE HEARTS OF GOLD

VELVET SEASON & THE HEARTS OF GOLD
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VISUAL ARTS - COLLAGE By Jorge Chamorro

ILLUSTRATION - by Ray Morimura

ILLUSTRATION - Paul X Johnson

I just discovered the amazing retro illustrations of British artist Paul X. Johnson Inspired by classic 40′s movies and vintage illustrations, his precise lines and muted colors capture the natural expression of emotions very well. His illustrations really make you stop and think about what the character is thinking. I love his work!

INSPIRATION - The Bauhaus Textiles of Gunta Stölzl & Anni Albers

"Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897 – 22 April 1983) was a German textileartist  who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop. As the Bauhaus’s only female master she created enormous change within the weaving department as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern  industrial designs. She joined the Bauhaus as a student in 1920, became a junior master in 1927 and a full master the next year. She was dismissed for political reasons in 1931, a year before the Bauhaus closed under pressure from the Nazis. 

 The textile department was a neglected part of the Bauhaus when Ms. Stölzl began her career, and its active masters were weak on the technical aspects of textile production. She soon became a mentor to other students and reopened the Bauhaus dye studios in 1921. After a brief departure, Stölzl became the school's weaving director in 1925 when it relocated from Weimar to Dessau and expanded the department to increase its weaving and dyeing facilities. She applied ideas from modern art to weaving, experimented with synthetic materials, and improved the department's technical instruction to include courses in mathematics. The Bauhaus weaving workshop became one of its most successful facilities under her direction." 

 

Anni Albers

"At Walter Gropius's Bauhaus she began her first year under Georg Muche and then Johannes Itten. Women were barred from certain disciplines taught at the school, especially architecture, and during her second year, unable to get into a glass workshop with future husband Josef Albers, Anni Albers deferred reluctantly to weaving. With her instructor Gunta Stölzl, however, Albers soon learned to love weaving's tactile construction challenges." 

INTERIOR DESIGN - Memphis

Memphis è il grande fenomeno culturale degli anni 80 che ha rivoluzionato le logiche creativo-commerciali del mondo del Design.
Nata da un’operazione culturale avviata da Ettore Sottsass e da un gruppo di giovani architetti e designers milanesi a cui si sono aggiunti, poco dopo, alcuni fra i più famosi designers della scena internazionale, Memphis ha sconvolto e ribaltato tutti quanti i presupposti esistenti fino allora circa l’idea dell’abitare.
Con Ettore Sottsass come colonna portante  del gruppo, il design ha acquisito una nuova concezione espressiva legata a nuove forme, nuovi materiali e nuovi patterns ribaltando i precedenti limiti creativi imposti dall’industria.
Il movimento Memphis è così diventato il simbolo quasi mitico del “Nuovo Design”.
La sua influenza è ancora evidente in moltissimi settori della produzione e non solo.

Memphis group founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1980 held a retrospective exhibition titled 'memphis blues' at the galleria carla sozzani earlier this year. curated by barbara radice,the set of exhibition was designed by michele de lucchi and the graphic work was by cristoph radl. sottsass called memphis design the new international style and plunged the sophisticated and influential milan design world into a labyrinth of visual irony, puns and provocations.the standards of 'good form' design that had been considered unassailable for years lost their claim to timeless validity for sottsass and his fellow-workers. the idea they had in common was to eliminate the peaceful conformity of furniture design and present concrete alternativesto the late 70s standard formal culture. the group existed until 1988.