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!
Here’s a postcard featuring some type play that Gluekit created for the Yale University Art Gallery. The event being promoted with this postcard was an end-of-the-year celebration for students involved at the Gallery, and their families. The play with angles and curves– which often occurs in type created for the Gallery– reference the Louis Kahn building in which part of the Gallery is housed.
Stripes still make us happy over here in Gluekit land!
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.
Recent Gluekit type work for the Yale University Art Gallery.
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!
Recent Gluekit poster for the Yale University Art Gallery!
This is for “Sound Installation: 1968/2008,” an event commemorating the “fortieth anniversary of the creative activism and public protest that occurred in the charged year of 1968.” Graduate students in theatrical sound design at the Yale School of Drama are to create three temporary sound installations, exploring political demonstrations, the division of historical and cultural experience, and the complex nature of time, place and memory.
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.
Gluekit served up some fresh type on the 2008 Members’ Events postcard for the Yale University Art Gallery. We’ve been exploring some new type avenues (fun!) and hope to share the results here. Enjoy!
Here’s another postcard designed by Gluekit for the Yale University Art Gallery. The extreme simplicity of the hand-made letterforms in the design was meant to convey the simplicity of using the Gallery’s new wiki. There’s also a visual reference to stitching, and handicrafts– a nod towards traditional collective activities like quilting. The colors vary from the Gallery’s typical scheme, because this announcement was hot, hot, hot!
Click here for more Gluekit work for the Gallery.
Here’s an Open House postcard that Gluekit created for the Yale University Art Gallery. This particular postcard features the Gallery’s color scheme (beautiful blue, black, and white) and some bold cut paper type. Click here for more Gluekit work for the Gallery. Ahhh yeah!
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!
