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Taylor Mazer, Miniature Drawings of the Ordinary Midwest

Taylor Mazer is an artist and teacher living and working in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. His work consists of very detailed miniature ink drawings. Working with a fine Micron pen (see photographs below for scale) he renders minute details of the city through views of empty alleyways, nightly corners, old brick buildings, subway lines, and other … Read More

Hartmut Böhm’s Sistematic Principles and Magnetic Fields

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 to Op Art and kinetic art. The artist shows similarities to Minimalism as he uses to rely on systematic mathematical and geometric principles, achieving in his works a dynamism and cinematic effects … Read More

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

Cristiana Couceiro is a Portuguese illustrator and graphic designer who currently lives in Lisbon. Her works mostly feature colorful collages based on geometrical constructions and are inspired by vintage prints and signs. The recent images she produced are synthetic combinations of cut-out silhouettes and spots of primary colors which become surreal three-dimensional scenes and graphic … Read More

A Small, Rationalist Monument by Giuseppe Terragni (1934)

In 1934, while working on larger commissions and competitions, Giuseppe Terragni designed this small memorial for Roberto Sarfatti, son of Margherita Sarfatti on the Col d’Echele (Echele plateau) near Asiago in the Veneto region in Italy. Located in the place where Sarfatti died during World War I, the monument is composed of superimposed parallelepipedal stones, … Read More

A Tough Exercise in Simplicity: Vaccaro’s Kindergarten in Piacenza.

This small kindergarten, made by only two classrooms, is located on the outskirts of Piacenza in Italy and was designed by Giuseppe Vaccaro starting in 1953 and finally built in 1961. The kindergarten is a part of the INA-casa neighborhood «Unità Galleana». The elements which compose the project are extremely simple while subtly crafted and … Read More

“Unstable Variations” by Kjell Varvin

Kjell Varvin is an artist based in Norway. He composes and decomposes combinations of disparate objects in a white corner or on a wall with the specific intent to avoid narrative or symbolic associations. The results are pure compositions located in a three-dimensional space. Compositions which are exactly what they are, objects put in association … Read More

Early Digital, Unintentional Collages: Fireflies by William Larson

William Larson is an American photographer who continuously experimented with different media in order to produce meaningful works and question the role of technology in the definition of an artistic language. His “Fireflies” series (1969–1978) deal with the possibility of introducing time and randomness into a photographic work, employing a cutting-edge technology for that time: … Read More

“Visual Induction”: Works by Franco Grignani

Franco Grignani was a hugely influential graphic designer and artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting. Born in Pieve Porto Morone in Italy in 1908, he studied architecture in Torino but dedicated himself to graphic design and visual communication throughout his whole life. During his career, he repeatedly underlined the influence that architecture … Read More