"The Prize of Success" is now out and available both as a print edition and as an Open Access PDF (link you know where).
In the small world of Swiss graphic design, prizes such as the Swiss Design Awards (SDA) are followed closely. The winners' works are admired, envied and emulated. The generous prize money allows designers to launch their careers and focus on lesser paid but critically recognised work. Awards thus play the role of bellwethers of the scene. However, criticisms inevitably arise. Speaking in hushed tones, designers speculate as to why a colleague won over another. Rumours have it that jury members favour their inner circles and exclude competitors. Analysing this universe in detail, Jonas Berthod retraces the recent history of the SDA and the emergence of a new design culture in Switzerland.
Published by @transcript_verlag , 2024. Designed by @f_mahler and @clioham
True 1980s camp - the photographer Christian Coigny’s campaigns for the Swiss department store Bon Génie Grieder (dated 1978 to 1993 and shown here achronologically). His work shows the influence of American painters such as Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keefe and Andrew Wyeth. For this series, he built his sets and accessories, shooting these (unretouched) images on 6×6 Ektachrome film.
I have to admit I am easily amused… and, well, I am amused by Rolf Wessendorf's thematic portraits series. He did one called “Working day” in the 1990s, but the images here are taken from his 1980s series "People in their free time”.
1. Student fraternity
2. Canoe
3. Curling
4. Chairman of the Schaffhausen Guilds
5. Guggenmusik
6. Hornuss
7. Dog handler
8. Sport shooter
9. Folk music [alpine horn], yodelling
10. Hunters
Back-to-school essentials! Models of Noguchi’s playgrounds, many of which were never built due to health and safety concerns.
1. Models for Playground Equipment for Ala Moana Park. 1939.
2. Model for Contoured Playground, with original equipment attachments, 1941.
3. Model for Contoured Playground, 1941 (enlarged and fabricated 2018).
4. Model for Contoured Playground, 1941 (enlarged and fabricated 2018).
5. Model for Play Mountain, 1933.
6. Model for UN Playground, 1952.
7. Model for Playground for Kodomo No Kuni, 1965 - 1966.
Drafts for "Typo-Buch" publication in Hans-Rudolf Lutz’s class, published in a small edition in 1976 at the F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, Zurich. Designers unknown.
Courtesy of F+F 1971, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
Though there’s something weirdly 1968 about it (think George Tooker and Tom Wesselman in Avant-Garde), this eye is from 1935. From the catalogue designed by Herbert Bayer for the 1935 Berlin exhibition “Das Wunder des Lebens” (the miracle of life).
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