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    Entries tagged “Sagmeister”

    Grammys     album     art     cds     design     music     Sagmeister    
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    “Best Recording Package + Best Boxed/Ltd Ed Package Grammy Noms”(discovered via Frolab, above design by Stefan Sagmeister)

    “Best Recording Package + Best Boxed/Ltd Ed Package Grammy Noms”
    (discovered via Frolab, above design by Stefan Sagmeister)

    pentagram     art     artists     murals     library     libraries     books     education     new york     design     sagmeis     sagmeister     maira kalman     illustration     new york times     bronx     architecture    
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    new work by Pentagram: Murals for The Library Initiative Michael Bierut with a team of designers at Pentagram collaborate with other graphic designers, artists and architects to help beautify the elementary school libraries in New York City’s five boroughs. The expansive L!brary Initiative includes 5 newly built libraries in the Bronx, featuring murals by Rafael Esquer, Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister and Yuko Shimizu, and Charles Wilkin. I first read about this inspiring, fantastic, beautiful project in the New York Times last week in an article titled, A Is for Artwork That Lures Bronx Schoolchildren to New Libraries. (the mural seen in the image above is by Christoph Niemann for P.S. 69 in the Bronx).

    new work by Pentagram: Murals for The Library Initiative

    Michael Bierut with a team of designers at Pentagram collaborate with other graphic designers, artists and architects to help beautify the elementary school libraries in New York City’s five boroughs. The expansive L!brary Initiative includes 5 newly built libraries in the Bronx, featuring murals by Rafael Esquer, Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister and Yuko Shimizu, and Charles Wilkin.

    I first read about this inspiring, fantastic, beautiful project in the New York Times last week in an article titled, A Is for Artwork That Lures Bronx Schoolchildren to New Libraries.

    (the mural seen in the image above is by Christoph Niemann for P.S. 69 in the Bronx).

    Sagmeister     Deitch     exhibit     graphic design     New York     Soho    
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    Lessons from Sagmeister È

    I finally made it over to see the Stefan Sagmeister exhibtion at the Deitch gallery in Soho (still open until February 23, 2008). The same day was Michel Gondry’s opening for “Be Kind Rewind” at the second Deitch location, but the line to get in was too daunting. But, seeing the Sagmeister show, with its variety of typographic forms, was enough to absorb for one day. 11 lessons from Sagmeister / Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far exhibit at Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street…