Davolio: 2019

Paul Cox

Overview of Paul Cox's oeuvre at Index Grafik. Pictured here is 'Sentimental Journey'.

Monograms

Overview of Monograms through history by Nancy Sharon Collins over on Print.

Push Pin Studio Counts up to Christmas!

Great inspirational post about the legendary quintessentially British Push Pin Studio and the amazing work of John Alcorn, thanks to L'Air du temps de for the wonderful post.

In the spirit of admiration for Metal Hurlant here is one of Moebius's amazing short stories called The Long Tomorrow, written by Dan O'Bannon; I am very grateful to Peter Doree and his blog the Bronze Age of Comics for the post which was posted on his blog exactly 10 years ago!!! Also a great post by Dangerous Minds.

Metal Hurlant

Great article about the formative and most creative years of the publication that shaped my artistic education, thanks to Tom Lennon blog for the insightful post.

Kazumasa Nagai

The fantastic poster artworks of Kazumasa Nagai reviewed by the stylish Readymag.

One of K. Nagai's quotes from the beautifully designed site resonates with me: 'design in the past was more unique because designers had their own styles. design today has leveled up in terms of sense but designers are likely to follow similar patterns. it mostly works on peripheral nerves but should be more appealing to our souls, i think.'

José Carlos de Brito e Cunha, known as J. Carlos, (July 18, 1884 — October 2, 1950)

Great entry by Plusouminostrente about this incredibibly prolific and original Brazilian artist, J. Carlos.

Geoff Mc Fertridge

Nice selection from the amazing graphic artist and director Geoff Mc Fertridge over at The Science of Design.

Dick Bruna Black bears

Thanks to Iconographics for the informative posts about pioneers of design, in this case the beautiful book covers made by Dick Bruna.

Black Noir :)

Beautiful collection of Black&White photos, where you can find this amazing shot of Elsa Martinelli. Thanks Film Noir photos and Swing shift shuffle for posting these fantastic photos. Also the Thin Man publicity shoot is

Ben Shahn

Beautiful entry by Biblioklept on Ben Shahn.

Baya Mahieddine

Via Culture Trip.

John Cage

John Cage's 2011 exhibition reviewed by Notes from a Fruitstore, I really like the article because of the memorable JC quotes.

Louis Renard

I am delighted to have come across this amazing post by BookTryst showing the fascinating work of larger than life Dutch artist Louis Renard. His 1718 Poissons, écrevisses et crabes...

Philippe Weisbecker

Philippe Weisbecker at Claska Gallery is a beautiful exhibition that shows the artist's evolution and poetic language.

Na Kim

Na Kim is a graphic designer born in Korea. Her contribution to the Designlectur is very interesting, and the range of contributors inspiring.

Proust reader

Richard Lindner's portrait of Proust is the last entry to the very fascinating reading on all Proust, the Proust reader.

A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

1824 Oliver Goldsmith book on Archive.org

Ales Kot

Interview with writer Ales Kot over at The Guardian about his work, the 'Material' comic series is designed by Will Tempest. Here is another review by Miserydex about the comic.

Ckttka on IG

Lovely illustration by Japanese illustrator (art name is ckttka, also on IG).

History of Japan graphic design

Overview of Japanese graphic design, over at Gurafiku, including the legendary Tadanori Yokoo, here at Japan Times tasing about his career.

The man who invented the future

Terrific article by BrainPickings on Jules Verne with beautiful mid century illustrations by Peter P. Plasencia.

Making of Phantom limb

The wonderful Alex Grigg and his 'Phantom limb' making of.

Basquiat Notebooks

Basquait's notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum.

Explore MOMA art books

You can now browse through the past exhibition catalogues of MOMA for free! Here is the overview.

Deconstructing Marcel Storr

Great experiment at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

Tomás Maldonado

Fantastic entry by Bagtazo about an Argentinian multidiscipline designer from the 1950's that I did not know (!) Tomás Maldonado, his pre-digital work is beauitful and edgy, many thanks for the post! This also led me to an article by Domus magazine on the same artist