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Indian Memory: A Series of Ceramics by Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1972-73)

June 12, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Pepper, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Basilico, Cherry, Lapislazzuli, Camomilla and Sugar are eight colorful potteries designed by Ettore Sottsass between 1972 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: archetype, color, Design, memory, the form of form

Comic as Theater: Gianni De Luca’s Romeo and Juliet (1976)

May 20, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Interior Landscapes, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: comic book

The Everyday Life of the Bourgeoisie: Watercolours by Josabeth Sjöberg

May 18, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

After the death of her parents, wealthy Josabeth Sjöberg (1812-1882), formerly daughter of a clerk in a Swedish government department, became poor and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Interior Landscapes Tagged With: bourgeoisie, central perspective, Interiors, painting, watercolours

Architectural Spaces in Tony Bevan’s Paintings

May 14, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Tony Bevan is a British artist who currently lives and works in London. The architectural spaces in his paintings are described by thickly painted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: infrastructures, Paintings

Herbert Bayer’s Small Architectural Projects (1924)

May 8, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: bauhaus, drawings, kiosk

Forgotten Corners, by Andrew G. Fisher

April 28, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: abstaction, Black and White, corners, lines, photography

A Symmetry, by Peter Judson

April 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Peter Judson, an illustrator and designer whose work we appreciate a lot and who was already featured in Socks in 2014, is back with a new series … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: colour, Paintings, simmetry

Wucius Wong’s Principles of Three-Dimensional Design (1976)

April 13, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In Principles of Three-Dimensional Design, 1976, (an obvious companion to Principles of Two-Dimensional Design), Wucius Wong offers a thorough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Design, models, three-dimensional design

Hartmut Böhm’s Sistematic Principles and Magnetic Fields

March 22, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hartmut Böhm is a German artist whose work spans four decades and who joined avant-garde artistic movements such as Neue Tendenzen, a German approach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: geometry, kinetic art, magnetic field, mathematics, op art, structure

“He Left at Least One Sentence Standing Whole” and Other Works by Cristiana Couceiro

March 19, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Cristiana Couceiro is a Portuguese illustrator and graphic designer who currently lives in Lisbon. Her works mostly feature colorful collages based on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: colors, compositions, graphic design

Early Digital, Unintentional Collages: Fireflies by William Larson

February 23, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

William Larson is an American photographer who continuously experimented with different media in order to produce meaningful works and question the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: Collage, concrete poetry, digital, fax, media

“Visual Induction”: Works by Franco Grignani

February 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franco Grignani was a hugely influential graphic designer and artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting. Born in Pieve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: advertising, geometry, gestalt, graphic design, perception, repetition

Constructing Abstraction. Pablo Picasso’s Constellation Drawings (1924)

February 13, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

The Constellations drawings are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. For these small drawings in black … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Fields Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, ink, sketches

The Inner Rooms of Kate Shepherd

February 6, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Kate Shepherd is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her paintings, prints, and silkscreens evoke Josef Albers, minimalism and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: formalism, lines, minimalism, perspective

Hashimoto Okiie’s Views of Ancient Castles and Gardens / 1

January 25, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Hashimoto Okiie ( 1899- 1993) was a Japanese woodcut artist. After working as a teacher and spare-time artist, he devoted himself completely to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Territories Tagged With: japanese, print, woodcut

“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” by Ben Tolman

January 22, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

"Weltschmerz" and "Made in Sarajevo" are two series of ink drawings by Washington DC-based artist Ben Tolman. The first one is a collection made in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Black and White, cities, drawings, ink

The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere

January 16, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

Stijn Jonckheere, a Belgian self-titled "experimental architect", works on the brink of architecture, illustration and graphic design. His working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: architectural representation, surrealism, technical drawings

Cut-out Reality Pieces by Mike Lee

January 15, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Mike Lee is a Californian born, New York-based digital and illustration artist. He has been working in the commercial illustration industry, but he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: axonometric projection, gif, illustration

Flows and Growth as Described by Rachel Duckhouse

January 14, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

Rachel Duckhouse is a multi media artist who lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Her practice is based on the deep observation of patterns in natural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: drawings, flows, growth, patterns, science, watercolors

Estates of Tomorrow, by Catherine O’Donnell (2013)

January 8, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Catherine O'Donnell is an Australian visual artist whose practice "is about the beauty of the uncelebrated and ordinary", looking for the intrinsic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: drawing, everyday, ordinary, suburban

Mass Black Implosion by Marco Fusinato (2007-ongoing)

December 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Marco Fusinato is a visual and music artist and a noise guitarist. He started in 2007 an ongoing series entitled Mass Black Implosion in which he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds Tagged With: avant-garde music, composition, graphic scores, scores

Visualizing Land: Works by Matthew Rangel

December 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: carthography, maps, mountains

Don’t Be Afraid of Bad Dreams: Rik Smits’ Cities and Landscapes

December 16, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Rik Smits is a Dutch artist who works with several media. His large pencil drawings depict cities and landscapes sceneries, sometimes with a realistic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: Black and White, cities, deserts, drawings

Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle

November 30, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) was an influential graphic and exhibition designer and photographer who lived and worked in Zurich. As the leading … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds Tagged With: Design, grid, music

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