The names are familiar, but the faces... well, not so much.
Who knew Marinetti cut such a dashing figure, that Brodovitch looked like a character out of a Woody Allen film, or that Tschichold would seem so jovial. Here is Kurt Schwitter with his Dadaist smile and van Doesberg with his steely gaze.
The early days of design certainly was a boys club, with only a few women able to gain recognition. Cipe Pineles, the utterly brilliant art director/designer, for years was denied membership into the Art Directors Club (she finally was the first woman to become a member in 1948) and Muriel Cooper, the legendary co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and The Visual Language Workshop, both helped paved the way for generations of future women designers.
Think of this as a "family album" where you can see what your eccentric and talented great aunts and uncles actually looked like. Let's see who you recognize.
The early days of design certainly was a boys club, with only a few women able to gain recognition. Cipe Pineles, the utterly brilliant art director/designer, for years was denied membership into the Art Directors Club (she finally was the first woman to become a member in 1948) and Muriel Cooper, the legendary co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and The Visual Language Workshop, both helped paved the way for generations of future women designers.
Think of this as a "family album" where you can see what your eccentric and talented great aunts and uncles actually looked like. Let's see who you recognize.
Here are Today’s images.
TODAY is a weekly jewel box of seemingly random, yet thoughtfully selected, images. At times tender, wicked, nostalgic, amusing, and dazzling, each edition is presented without narration, editing or explanation by its author, designer Eric Baker. "It all began as a goof. One day I sent a good friend about 50 random pictures of cheese. I don't know why, but to me cheese is funny, perhaps it is the word itself and its various connotations. Eventually I began looking closer, or should I say broader at 'things'. Things lost on the fringes ... ordinary, odd, beautiful things. Esoteric images, old diagrams, typography, cartography — visions of a once promising but now extinct future."
Editor's Note: All images link to their original source and are copyright their original owners.
Editor's Note: All images link to their original source and are copyright their original owners.
Comments [10]
05.22.10
11:55
05.22.10
02:50
05.22.10
03:35
05.23.10
09:47
05.23.10
02:57
05.23.10
06:19
Anyway, sorry to call anyone out, I just feel this is a cool collection of amazing designers! Its great to see their expressions from candid to composed.
05.24.10
04:32
I went to post some links here but there are so many articles and books on design and women, it's pointless to put them all up. But you can start here:
WOMEN WORKING IN DESIGN, 1900–1980
by Aaris Sherin
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28555/0/page/1/
Historically, working in art and design have been white middle class and upper class professions. But I see more and more second and third generation design students (whose parents are doctors, lawyers, etc.) of African American, Asian, and Latino background. Now that the families are solidly middle class or higher, the subsequent generations are given leeway to study creative professions.
Victor Margolin has been looking into African American design history in Chicago:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~victor/articles/blackdesigners.pdf
05.24.10
07:45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Douglas
05.29.10
04:32
If you haven't gone there you don't know what you're missing.
05.31.10
03:22