A Journey Round My Skull: Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death

Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century.

Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death China Sketch, January 1937 "Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death" Illustrator: Zhu Jin-lou Modern Sketch, November 1935 China Sketch, November 1936 "China as sleeping giant. 'Give me Liberty or Death.'" Illustrator: Li Xuan "A Typical Chinese," 1936 photomontage "Assorted Pictures from the North," 1934 Photomontage artist: Fen Zi-li

China  Sketch, January 1937
"Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death"
Illustrator: Zhu Jin-lou

Modern Sketch, November 1935

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Designers Against Child Slavery

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is a Design Collective that enables creatives from all over the world to rise up
against the child sex trade.
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Print’s Hand Drawn Illustration Competition Finalists, Set #2

by Aaron Kenedi

I loved these two but see more on the original post

The Transients by Ryan Peltier (Brooklyn, NY)

Materials used: Watercolor, gouache and inks on cotton rag paper, 17″ x12″
Artist’s statement:

I am influenced by American and European Folk Art and things like really old Mickey Mouse cartoons, they are kind of dark and the references are all out of date and that makes them better in a way.  They are enigmatic, you can’t really put your finger on why you love them so much.  I think there is something a little sinister about my work that comes through and that is what people respond to.  I think it can be healthy for art to contradict itself somehow, to be honest, to contain duplicity.

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Delta Bluesmen by Eamonn Donnelly (Chicago, IL)

Materials used: Charcoal, graphite, acrylic paint, scotch tape on bristol & photoshop.
Artist’s statement:

This series pays homage to the performers that provided American music with a truly unique identity. Those early, raw recordings of Delta Blues laid the foundations for multiple genres that followed. My approach to the work was akin to a blues song; simple, honest and direct. Art direction by John Sanford for Muse magazine.

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Posters from Roudaki Hall - Tehran

we are collecting these posters with the Idea of publishing the complete set as a book in the hopefully near future. Here are some samples.  If you want some of the original tiff’s just drop me a line.

ADC_Graphic-Intervention_25 years of international Aids Awareness Posters

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festival of two worlds

 

This image is on the cover of the magazine/catalog for the 1964 Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds. I had to buy it for this cover image, though I can't figure out what it is or find the proper credit. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the theater photos inside. Enjoy the mystery.  original post on 50watts.com

The Seven Deadly Sins @ 50watts.com

The Seven Deadly Sins @ 50watts.com
The Seven Deadly Sins, bookplates by the Russian artist Vladimir Zuev From the collection of Richard Sica

lust

 

gluttony

 

greed

 

sloth

 

anger

envy

pride

The Seven Deadly Sins @ 50watts.com

A Journey Round My Skull - Archives: The Star of Manners and Letters

Illustrations by Aazarnoush Ebraahemiroushan for The Star of Manners and Letters (Iran, 1986). The book features "a selection of 4 poems by a famous contemporary poet teaching a code of morals."

































From the International Children's Digital Library

A Journey Round My Skull - Archives: The Star of Manners and Letters

A Journey Round My Skull: Hunziker's Simplicissimus

Illustrations by Max Hunziker (1901 - 1976) for Simplicius Simplicissimus (Zurich, 1945)

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Escape into Life

nends:

Athanasii Kircheri Fvldensis Bvchonii E Soc Iesv Presbyteri; Ars Magna Lvcis Et Vmbrae : In decem Libros digesta, Rome 1646

(Source: diglib.hab.de)

(via yama-bato)

Escape into Life

warriors and legends

warriors and legends

billyjane:

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Mitsukuni [ Otaketaro ] defying the skeleton-spectre in the castle Soma no furugosho.Mitsukuni was a principal retainer of Taira no Masakado. After his death his daughter, Takiyasha, went to live in the haunted castle. She was able to summon up the apparitions at will, but the old servant, Mitsukuni, had the ability to defy them until they disappeared.detail,1845

[must see whole woodblock @ OTB or here ]
more warriors and legends

thanks to frenchtwist for reminding me of studio-international

hamid & company | warriors and legends

Illustrations by Harry Clarke for a 1925 edition of Goethe's Faust -- Happy Halloween

From a Journey Round My Skull

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Walter Schnackenberg at the Carnival

From A Journey Round My Skull

"Fasching"

"Faschingskavaliere"

"Zeichnung zum Gedicht 'Russisches Ballett'"

A Journey Round My Skull: Walter Schnackenberg at the Carnival

Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran

 

August 30 - September 25, 2010
Reception: Thursday, September 16, 6-8pm

 

Exhibition Statement

Steven Heller on "Where Is My Vote?"
DNAinfo profiles "Where Is My Vote?"

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran," an exhibition of 150 political posters by graphic artists world wide created in support of the protests in Iran that followed the 2009 presidential election. The exhibition is the first public viewing of these posters in printed form and was organized by designers Anita Kunz and Woody Pirtle along with Francis Di Tommaso, director of the Visual Arts Gallery, and Steven Heller, author, design historian and co-chair of the MFA Design Department at SVA.

"Where Is My Vote?" highlights the unique role that socially responsible designers can play in rallying support for free speech, and the power of design to inspire political activism. The exhibition features posters by some of the most celebrated graphic artists working today, including R. O. Blechman, Cathie Bleck, Seymour Chwast, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Robert Grossman, Anita Kunz, Yossi Lemel, Jennifer Morla, István Orosz, Woody Pirtle, Andrea Rauch, Ralph Steadman, Gary Taxali, James Victore and Massimo Vignelli, among others.

Steven Heller Discusses "Where Is My Vote?" from School of Visual Arts on Vimeo.

Following the elections in Iran in the summer of 2009, an Iranian photographer who goes by the name of Green Bird urged graphic artists from all over the world to create posters in support the Green Movement in Iran. One of the artists he approached, Italian designer Andrea Rauch, volunteered to host all of the posters on the web site SocialDesignZine, the blog of the Association of Italian Graphic Designers, where Rauch serves as editor. Over 200 posters have been collected on the site and can be viewed here: http://sdz.aiap.it/gallerie/11538

"SocialDesignZine, which has an English language version, was visited by very many Iranians," commented Rauch, "Friends in Iran told us that many of our posters were 'self-printed' and used at the demonstrations. At the end of September 2009, when the number of posters submitted numbered more than 100, SocialDesignZine was  blocked in Iran."

In the fall of 2009, Green Bird asked Kunz if she knew of a venue that would be interested in exhibiting the posters collected on SocialDesignZine. Kunz then brought the works to the attention of SVA and soon the planning for "Where Is My Vote?" began.

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