Justus Oehler’s Haiti Poster at Kunstmuseum Dieselwerk Cottbus
Justus Oehler’s award-winning poster for The Haiti Poster Project, created in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, is one of the works featured in Es geht um die Welt (It’s About the World), a major exhibition that opens this Sunday at the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus in Germany. Showcasing works by over 100 designers from around the world, the exhibition presents posters about nature and the environment, looking at humanity’s influence on the natural world, and vice versa. The show remains on view through 15 April.
Oehler’s poster was previously selected as Judge’s Choice in TDC57 and received a Red Dot Award.
Emily Oberman Joins Pentagram’s New York Office
Pentagram announces its newest partner, Emily Oberman.
Emily, who will join our New York office in April 2012, is a multi-disciplinary designer whose work encompasses brand identity, motion graphics, publications, packaging, advertising and websites. Her most recent projects include the website for This American Life, the identity, website and retail graphics for The Original Soupman (the basis for the beloved Seinfeld character), as well as work in progress for Science Friday and the technology company Conduit.
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New Work: Aldo Rise Installations by Daniel Weil
Last week we posted about the Selfridges windows that Pentagram’s Daniel Weil designed for Aldo Rise, Aldo’s bold collaboration with daring new talent in the fashion industry. The windows promoted the heart of the experience, the pop-up installation in the Shoe Galleries on Selfridges’ second floor.
Daniel devised the installation around the experience of sitting down and trying the shoes. Each counter unit of the installation is supported by a single wood turning, inspired by a female shoe.
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New Work: ‘David Hockney - A Bigger Picture’
Harry Pearce and his team have created the identity for David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture currently on show at the Royal Academy of Arts. This is the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. The show takes over the full suite of main galleries and features more than 150 works, mostly created within the last decade, and with the Academy’s galleries in mind.
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Arts Foundation Awards Presented at Pentagram
Pentagram’s London office hosted the Arts Foundation Awards last night at which Guest of Honour, poet Sir Andrew Motion, announced the names of the six recipients of the £10,000 fellowships.
Five art forms are chosen each year across the fields of fine and performing arts, literature, craft and new media. In 2012 the categories selected were Animation, Choreography, Opera Composition, Poetry and Product Design as well as the Yoma Sasburg Fellowship for Sculpture.
From a breakdancing choreographer to a product designer who prefers to work in the desert the recipients were;
Robert Morgan: Animation
Wilkie Branson: Choreography
Elspeth Brook: Opera Composition
Ahren Warner: Poetry
Markus Kayser: Product Design
Ruth Claxton: Yoma Sasburg Award for Sculpture
New Work: The Selfridges London Debut of Aldo Rise
Fashion shoe brand Aldo asked Pentagram’s Daniel Weil to create both the main entrance windows and a pop-up store for the Selfridges launch of the Aldo Rise initiative, a bold collaboration with daring new talent in the fashion industry.
Collaborating with partner Naresh Ramchandani, Weil has created a display concept that runs through both the windows and pop-up store.
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New Work: Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce is the iconic luxury automobile, representing the finest in British engineering since the company’s founding over a century ago in 1904. Pentagram’s Justus Oehler and his team in our Berlin office were commissioned by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, now part of the BMW Group, to develop the theme and create the overall look and feel for the Rolls-Royce exhibition stand at Europe’s most important car show, the IAA (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) in Frankfurt. Oehler’s solution for the brief was to create a gallery-like environment that showcased the exquisite craftsmanship of Rolls-Royce and brought to life the spirit of its manufacturing.
New Work: ‘Is Drawing Dead?’
“Is drawing dead?” A provocative question, but you are probably reading this at your computer, and perhaps the only pencil at hand is the one you chew on for comfort. Since the Renaissance, drawing has been the architect’s primary tool of expression and investigation. Now the use of digital technologies like parametric modeling and computational design have changed the way architects define and depict space. This February the Yale School of Architecture will host “Is Drawing Dead?,” a symposium that considers the present and future role of drawing in the architectural profession.
Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Yve Ludwig have designed a poster for the event using the simple design parameters of the series of posters we’ve designed for Yale since 1998: black, white and type. Here, a broken pencil takes the form of a “Y.” And yes, the poster was originally conceived with a hand-drawn sketch.
New Work: Sundance Film Festival
This week filmmakers, studio executives and film fans will make their annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States and one of the premier showcases for film in the world. Established in 1978, the festival is produced by the non-profit Sundance Institute, founded by the actor and director Robert Redford to discover and support independent film and artists. Noteworthy recent films like “Marcy Martha May Marlene,” “Like Crazy,” “Being Elmo” and “Another Earth” were all honored with awards at last year’s festival, and Sundance has been instrumental in launching the careers of directors like Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky and Quentin Tarantino. This year’s 10-day festival runs from January 19 through 29 in Park City and nearby Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Pentagram’s Paula Scher and her team created the bold graphic identity for this year’s festival, organized around the theme “Look Again.” Each year Sundance invites filmmakers to alter perceptions with their films, and Redford and the marketing team at Sundance developed the “Look Again” tagline after being inspired by a quote by Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” The theme captures the mission of Sundance and the spirit of independent film.
New Work: ‘Symbol, Mark and a Typeface’ posters
Angus Hyland has designed a limited edition series of four different posters to be given away at his talk for The Typographic Circle on 19 January at JWT in Knightsbridge.
The posters illustrate the talk title, “Symbol, Mark and a Typeface.” The evening will be divided into two parts, the first based around Hyland’s book Symbol, which analyses enduring trademarks, and the second on his ten-year collaboration with Cass Art, the iconic art materials retailer.
Lithography was kindly provided by Gavin Martin Colournet and Zen Pure White paper supplied by GF Smith.
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