Sideboard (1927-29) designed by Jo Uiterwaal and produced by Cees Uiterwaal
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Vico Magistretti, Dalù Table Lamp, 1969; Re-edition 2005. Made by Artemide Italy. Via philamuseum
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“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
The Vignellis were the rare type of designers who worked across all design disciplines and often for the same client. Our next round of Open Houses will focus on the theme “Design is One.” We’ll be focusing on the clients which the Vignellis did it all. Graphic identity and publications. Products and furniture. Interiors and exhibitions. See how “Design is One” comes to life through the archives.
Want to see original artifacts from the archives but don’t know where to start? Join us at our Open Houses to have a look! No appointment required. Stay for a few minutes or stay for hours.
As always, our galleries are open to the public and feature the greatest hits of the design work of Massimo and Lella Vignelli. But for the Open Houses, our archivist will be digging deep into the archives to show you one-of-a-kind original sketches and other artifacts of the Vignelli design process. You can see the designs that you know and love but expect many surprises even if you are a Vignelli “superfan!”
Save the dates:
9/20/2023-9/21/2023
3/20/2024-3/21/2024
10am-4pm each day
more details on our events page: https://www.rit.edu/vignellicenter/events
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Artist's depiction of a gryphon radiator ornament for 1933 Hudson cars. Handwritten on back: "Dec. 2/32. The Griffon. Radiator ornament on all 1933 models."
National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library
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Swissair by Karl Gerstner, 1978
Discover more design history at:
www.logohistories.com
www.logo-archive.org
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After a very long wait, copies have arrived from Europe!
Immutable: Designing History by Chris Lee
Available at Draw Down Books
Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money and writing—from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers, like the blockchain.
Immutability figures as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering a variety of techniques (material, technological, administrative, etc.) of securitization against the entropy of a document’s movement through space/time, and the political.
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being design’s most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Nader’s call to “study up” (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freire’s recognition of the “limit situation” as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The volume’s aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable.
Designed by Chris Lee
Published by Onomatopee and Library Stack, 2023
Softcover, 192 pages, 50 duotone images, 5 × 7.75 inches
ISBN: 978-9-49-314842-0
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I designed some printmaking & book history themed pendants :)
A Printer's Fist/ manicule, Aldus leaf and a pilcrow
etsy
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Zenith Royal D14 little green owl radio, made in 1972. Complete with box, instructions, and accessories
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