Parra’s recent cover for the Summer 2008 Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover series.
We are big fans of Parra and love his sexy lines whether they are black and gold or hot pink, orange and electric blue!
Summer 2008 has brought another onslaught of brilliant designs for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Calendar Cover Series. Three artists created designs for this season’s calendar, which we’ll be rolling out this week for your viewing pleasure!
Our first design is from Seymour Chwast, and features his current interest in intricate all-over patterning. Chwast founded Pushpin Studios in 1954, and together with co-founders Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel, went on to create some of the most sizzling graphics of the late twentieth century. Gluekit is a huge fan of the studio’s Push Pin Graphic, which paved the way for many of the studio and designer zines of today. Great stuff– and look out below!
Last Spring, Mr. Ryan Waller did a most excellent and spring-a-licious design for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Calendar Cover Series. As he does so well, Ryan brought a sense of humor and a fine eye for detail and fun to the party. Here at Gluekit, we just loved his use of patterns– stripes, dots, and boxes– for this piece.
Also be sure to check out Ryan’s shirts and totebags (Library and Museum), available from Part of it.
Here’s another fantastic cover from the Yale University Art Gallery typographic calendar cover series! This one was created by Karel Martens, revered Dutch graphic designer and typographic master. Martens founded and currently supervises the Werkplaats Typografie (WT) program at the ArtEZ Institute of Art in the Netherlands; two monographs, Printed Matter (1996) and Counterprint (2004), have been published about his substantial contributions to the fields of art and design.
One of the wonderful things about the calendar series has been the opportunity to juxtapose generations of designers and various approaches to typography. The Gallery (and Gluekit!) was honored by Martens’s Fall 2007 eye-opening contribution.
Mike Perry’s most excellent Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover, part of an on-going typographic series which invites designers to render “Yale University Art Gallery” for seasonal calendar provided by the Gallery to students, patrons, and the public. For other contributions to the series by a serious roster of talented and imaginative artists, click here. And check out Mike’s site, Midwestisbest, for a closer look at his work.
Mike is also a participating designer in the Part of It project, for which he designed a classic tee, “It’s Just You and Me.” And as we reported last month, his design was also featured in the American Airways in-flight magazine.
Mike’s work is popping up everywhere, and we are thrilled to be able to feature some of his work here!
It feels like summer where we are today, which reminded us of this awesome Michael Leon calendar cover, created for the Yale University Art Gallery. The type really gets at the dizzying HEAT of a summer in the city– with the prospect of the cool mountain ranges on the horizon. It’s 100% sizzling!
Check out the other covers in the Gallery’s series!
We’re reaching back a few years– woah, but it feels like just last month! Here’s the Fall 2006 Yale University Art Gallery Calendar Cover. The design is by the talented and awesome Geoff McFetridge.
After Geoff did the cover, he was invited to be a guest artist at the Yale School of Art in their “Making Do” series. The idea behind “Making Do” was to gather four artists from different disciplines and have them work on-site at Yale’s School of Art for a week. The 2006 Making Do show took place in October/November and featured McFetridge, Mark Borthwick, Karyn Olivier, and Luis Gispert. There’s a great Flickr set of images from the show here.
We’re excited about Geoff’s new excellent handmade skate company, in partnership with Yong-Ki Chang. It’s called Solitary Arts and their blog is chock full of awesome stuff. Geoff’s also started making his wonderful wallpaper designs available via Pottak.
It’s a Spring 2008 Yale University Art Gallery Calendar cover! This beautiful piece was designed by Antoine + Manuel, aka Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz, Parisian graphic arts duo extraordinaire. As their bio blurb states, “Their unique visual language combines hand drawing and computer illustration with their own typography and photography.” It’s visually compelling stuff. We especially liked their mini self-portrait (under the petals on the left side).Gluekit’s excited about this Spring, and happy to see new petals appearing everywhere. Let the new ideas bloom!
Ahhh… Spring is nearing and we’re getting psyched. Signs of seasonal change abound. One we especially like? The latest Yale University Art Gallery cover for the Spring 2008 calendar, featuring rippin’ type from Garrett Morin.
We are also really excited about a new design Garrett did for Part of it, which will be released later this month. Keep your eyes peeled for that!
Gluekit likes playful typography, sunny days, and saying goodbye to Winter.
Here’s another excellent cover from the Yale University Art Gallery calendar series. This one’s by DIY, an awesome Swiss graphic design studio that does amazing projects, illustrations, and design work. This cover highlights their rad three-dimensional approach.
Gluekit likes doin’ it yourself!
A few weeks ago, Gluekit mentioned the Hektor photo shoot for an upcoming Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover (the calendar goes out to YUAG members, to selected students and is available for pick-up at the Gallery itself). We decided it might be nice to look back to where it all started.
So here we have it, the Fall 2006 Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover featuring custom type by Ed Fella, hand lettering typographer extraordinaire.
In the coming weeks, we’re very excited to bring you the rest of the set (so far!). It’s been great over the last two years to see talented designers and typographers render the type for the cover and share their vision. Gluekit also thinks it’s a great way to get graphic design front and central for museum-goers, subtly erecting a foundation for design among the visual arts that are typically collected by institutions of cultural heritage.
Gluekit likes hand lettering, typography, and sweeping black letterforms!
