Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut, one of the designers featured in the movie "Helvetica" is a member of the Pentagram design firm in New York. This particular poster for Yale School of Architecture is considered a throwback to Rococo.

The way the design seeps into every area of the page and over runs it is what I like about this particular piece.

Egon Schiele

Schiele's work is interesting both in it's subject matter and it's unique apporach to the figure. He was a student of Gustav Klimt and also of the secessionist group of Vienna. His work is considered lurid and pornographic in nature by many.


I think this particular piece "Portrait of Eduard Kosmack" (1910) appeals to me because of the erratic nature of the line used in it.

Movie Poster

character logo michelin man

Bibendum,The Michelin Man is one of the oldest company character logos. He was designed by O'Galop in France in the 1890's.

Rand, Paul

Rands image for the cover of the book "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz.

Rand is probably best known for his design of the Apple Logo and various other corporate identities.

This particular piece appeals to me because, like Rand< I am huge fan of masks.

Klimt

Gustav Klimt was a Viennese artist known for his work with gold leaf as well as his lurid depictions of nude women.


this image is from the publication Ver Sacrum, put out by the secessionist group of Vienna ( a group which Klimt was president of for a short time).
The whiplash style of brushstroke he uses is typical of Art Nouveau.

cd art for Neutral Milk Hotel's "Aeroplane Over the Sea"

























































































Bright Eyes "Lifted (or the story is in the soil)"



















Shellac "1,000 Hurts"



















Ugly Casanova "Sharpen Your Teeth"
















Built to Spill promo poster for "Ancient Melodies of the Future"