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*Salvo iverse indicazioni All'Expo di Parigi vengono presentati
gli embrioni dei primi film colorati e sonori
Embryonic color and sound films shown at Paris
Exposition |
Frank Lloyd Wright pubblica 'The Art
and Craft of the Machine'
|
Viaggio sulla luna' di Meliès
Melies's 'Voyage to the Moon' film |
Morris Benton disegna il carattere
Franklin Gothic
|
Charles Dana Gibson crea illustrazioni nello
stile Art Nouveau
Charles Dana Gibson illustrates in Art Nouveau
style |
Steiglitzgestisce la Gallery 291 a New York
Steiglitz operates Gallery 291 in NY |
L'art nouveau ungherese viene mostrata per
la prima volta alla Esposizione di Milano
Hungarian art nouveau shown at Milan Exhibition |
Picasso e Braque inventano il Cubism
Picasso and Braque invent Cubism |
Peter Behrens designs trademark for AEG George Guisti born Futurism begins in Italy Frank Lloyd Wright designs famous prairie-style Robie House in Chicago Steiglitz gives Matisse his first exhibition in America at "291" Ludwig Hohlwein designs Confection Kehl Will Burtin born in Cologne, Germany Ashcan School of realistic painters formed in New York City Erik Nitsche born |
F.T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto"
published in Paris newspaper Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Robie House Peter Behrens office includes Miies van der Rohe, Gropius, and later Le Corbusier Howard Pyle illustrates The Book of Pirates Cubism first appears with Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' Diaghilev presents the Ballets Russe in Paris Matisse paints The Dance Magazine publisher Conde Nast acquires 'Vogue' |
L. and J.G. Stickley market mantel clock as part
of Mission Oak Collection Plakatstil artist Ludwig Hohlwein "Marco Polo Tee" poster Will Bradley restyles Century magazine Leo Lionni born in Amsterdam, Netherlands of Dutch parents Sonia and Robert Delaunay married in Paris English critic Roger Fry coins term 'Post-Impressionism' Emil Nolde paints 'Dance Around the Golden Calf' N.W. Ayer advertising agency first uses art directors Gestalt psychologists formulate principles of perceptual organization in Germany Arthur Dove makes first abstract paintings Scupltor Constantin Brancusi begins his 'Sleeping Muse' series First commercial neon sign in Paris Steiglitz first shows abstract paintings by Americans at "291" Wassily Kandinsky paints first abstract painting Great Islamic exhibit impresses Matisse |
French Art Deco Birth of Kasimir Malevitch's Suprematism Publisher Cyrus Curtis invents modern "market research" Exhibit of German design at Newark Museum, NJ Braque invents collage Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni paints 'The City Rises' George Braque's painting 'Man with a Guitar', exemplary example of analytical cubism Bradbury Thompson born William Golden born Egon Schiele paints "The Self Seers" German expresionist painter Franz Marc paints 'Blue Horses' Cipe Pineles born Munich expressionist artists form Der Blaue Reiter |
Wertheimer publishes Gestalt Perceptual theory
in Frankfurt Vladimir Mayakovsky "christened" a poet by David Burliuk Liubov Popova studies in Paris and travels extensively in Europe Picasso creates "Still-Life with Caning," one of the first collages 24 sheet billboard poster becomes a standard Marcel Duchamp's painting 'Nude Descending A Staircase' causes uproar in Paris Jan Tschichold born |
Cass Gilbert designs Woolworth Building in New
York City Futurist opera "Victory over the Sun" produced in St. Petersburg America introduced to modern art at Armory Show in NY Giovanni Papini's 'Lacerba' introduces free typography in Italy Tatlin, Malevich and Lissitzky produce Constructivist work in Russia Vorticist movement founded in England by Wyndham Lewis Marcel Duchamp's sculpture 'Bicycle Wheel' leads to Dada and Surrealism |
American Institute of Graphic Arts founded in
New York Francis Thibaudeau invents the asymmetric 'Typographie de groupes' Brodovitch runs away from home to join Russian army French Army uses Braque's cubist principles for camouflage Henry Bacon designs the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC Vorticism named by Ezra Pound Painter Raymond Duchamp-Villon produces Cubist sculpture 'With his Horse' F.H.K. Henrion born in Nuremburg, Germany Alexander Rodchenko meets Vavaro Stepanova Kandinsky's painting 'Autumn' foreshadows Abstract Expressionism 30 years later London Transport symbol designed Kandinsky publishes "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" Paul Rand born Edna Woolman Chase becomes editor of 'Vogue' magazine Eugenia Errazuriz shocks Paris with minimal aesthetic of interior design Roycrifters Press publishes "Philistine Journal" with strong Arts & Crafts message |
Duchamp makes first Dada paintings Brodovitch joins cavalry and fights in Romania Giorgio de Chirico paints metaphysical 'The Duo' Japanese designer Yusaku Kamekura born Alvin Lustig born |
Nihilistic, absurdist movement Dada founded in
Zurich Norman Rockwell illustrates his first cover for Saturday Evening Post magazine Liubov Popova develops non-objective painting style in Russia John Hearfield and George Grosz develop photomontage Dada Manifesto read in Zurich by Tristan Tzara Jean Arp paints 'Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance' Frank Lloyd Wright designs Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Malik Verlag printing company begins in Germany Edward Johnson designs geometric typeface for London Underground |
DeStijl begun in Holland by Theo van Doesburg Van Doesburg designs DeStijl Alphabet DeStijl Manifesto published Vilmos Huszar designs masthead for "De Stijl" Picasso begins designing sets for Diaghilev L. and J.G. Stickley market Stickley Spindle Arm chair Marcel Duchamp exhibits common urinal "Fountain," as Art in New York James Montgomery Flagg designs Uncle Sam "I Want You" poster Malik Verlag founded by John Heartfield Hans Arp designs biomorphic abstract relief sculpture Tristan Tzara begins editing of DADA |
Fernand Leger and L'Espirit Moderne Color theorist Albert Munsell dies Brodovitch meets wife Nina in Odessa De Stijl designer Gerrit Rietveld makes famous red and blue armchair Oswald B. Cooper completes design of typeface 'Cooper' American artist Grant Wood assigned to develop army camouflage E. McKnight Kauffer designs Daily Herald poster |
Bauhaus founded in Weimar, Germany with Walter
Gropius as Director L'Espirit Nouveau magazine began by Le Corbusier, Ozenfant. El Lissitzky creates first proun painting Felix the Cat first appears in silent film 'Feline Follies' Renoir dies Amedeo Modigliani paints sensual 'Reclining nude' Surrealism term coined by Guillaume Appollinaire Baurat Adolf Meyer lectures with Gropius at the Bauhaus Kurt Schwitters publishes first "Merz" collages American Lyonel Feininger does woodcut 'Cathedral' at Bauhaus Earnest Elmo Calkins calls advertising art a "new art-form" New York Art Directors Club is founded Otto Messmer creates cartoon caracter Felix the Cat |
Jay Hambidge publishes 'Elements of Dynamic Symmetry' Expressionism in Germany Amedeo Modigliani dies Armin Hofmann born in Winterthur, Switzerland Inkhuk, the Institute of Artistic Culture, founded by Kandinsky, Popova et al Opening of Wiene's expressionist film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' Tatlin's Monument to Third International unveiled Kohler, Gestalt Psychologist, describes Isomorphosism Constructivism founded in Russia by Naum Gabo, Antoine Peusner and Vladimir Tatlin Liubov Popova paints space-force constructions in Russia M.F. Agha meets publisher Conde Nast in Berlin Lalique founds his own glass factory Brodovitch moves to Paris and designs stage sets for Diaghilev The Vkhutemas(Higher Technical art Studios) begun in Petrograd Saul Bass born Johannes Itten establishes basic course at the Bauhaus Expressionist typography at the Bauhaus influenced by Itten At age 31 Albers enters Bauhaus as student Marcel Breuer joins Bauhaus from Hungary Herbert Bayer joins studio of architect Margold and learns of Bauhaus |
Klee and Kandinsky join Bauhaus faculty Theo Van Doesburg invited by Walter Gropius to visit the Bauhaus Laszlo Moholy-Nagy named 'Master of Form' at Bauhaus Herbert Bayer arrives at Bauhaus as student Simon Rodia begins work on 'Watts Towers' in Los Angeles Rodchenko becomes chairman of Inkhuk Dadaist Man Ray moves to Paris to do photography El Lissitzky moves to Berlin Mendelsohn's visionary Einstein Tower built in Potsdam Alvin Eisenman born Theo van Doesburg prints line grid for ad in De Stijl magazine Inkhuk calls for rejection of easel painting in favor of utilitarian design School of the Art Institute of Chicago begins Department of Printing Arts Hans Richter produces first abstract film |
Surrealist movement begins W.A. Dwiggins coins term 'graphic design' Typographer Aaron Burns born Ladislav Sutnar designs products in glass, porcelain and metal In Paris Man Ray conducts experimental art using light effects Moholy-Nagy does first experimental photographs First advertisement on radio Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ends publication Kandinsky joins Bauhaus Herbert Bayer joins Kandinsky's wall painting workshop at Bauhaus "New Functional Design" begins in Europe Aleksei Gan publishes "Constructivist Manifesto" in Russia Walter Dexel designs first illuminated exterior advertising in Germany Bauhaus moves to a 'Constructivist' aesthetic Herbert Bayer meets El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters who are visiting the Bauhaus |
George Grosz publishes Ecce Homo A.M. Cassandre posters first appear in Paris Oskar Schlemmer heads Bauhaus Theatre workshop El Lissitzky's calls for "the electro-library" over traditional book formats Frederick Kiesler invited to join De Stijl group as youngest member First Bauhaus Exhibit draws 15,000 viewers in Weimar Cranbrook Academy of Art begun in Michigan Rodchenko starts magazine Novyi lef, using photomontage First use of neon on signs in United States LeCorbusier declares "A house is a machine for living" Piet Zwart begins work with typography Zwart designs first advertisements for Dutch Cable Works Hendrik N. Werkman designs first issue of "The Next Call" Louis Danziger born Ladislav Sutnar is Professor at Prague's State School of Graphic Arts Kandinsky's questionnaire on universal correspondence at the Bauhaus Johannes Itten resigns from Bauhaus faculty under pressure from Gropius Lazlo Moholy-Nagy becomes director of the Basic Course at the Bauhaus De Stijl and Constructivism influence Bauhaus typography Herbert Bayer does sketches on walking trips to Italy and wall murals at Bauhaus Moholy-Nagy designs Bauhaus prospectus |
35mm Leica camera first produced Surrealism begins in Paris with manifesto by Andre Breton Gerrit Rietveld builds the Schroeder House in Utrecht Frederick Kiesler designs stage sets for O'Neill's 'Emperor Jones' Francis Thibaudeau sets typography classification system in Paris Erte, French illustrator, designs covers for Harper's Bazaar Lissitzky and Schwitters produce MERZ Weimar Bauhaus forced to dissolve Lissizky and Arp edit THE ISMS OF ART Piet Zwart begins designing for Nederlandsche Kabelfabriek in Delft "My Life In Art" written by Constantin Stanislavsky Felix the Cat changes his shape to circular design Brodovitch wins Bal Banal poster prize in Paris Alfred Knopf publishes book of trademarks Frederick Kiesler designs poster for International Theater Techniques in Vienna Luibov Popova dies Albert Kahn designs Glass Plant for Ford Motor Company Kurt Schwitters founds 'Merz-Werbezentrale' Herbert Bayer returns to Bauhaus Leger makes film, 'Ballet Mecanique' |
Herbert Bayer Designs Universal Typeface at Bauhaus AIZ magazine begins publication and reaches circulation of 450,000 Bauhaus opens new premises in Dessau Peter Behrens completes offices of I.G. Farben Paint Company J.J.P. Oud designs Cafe de Unie in Rotterdam Russian "Futurist" Vladimir Mayakovsky visits America Radio stations take first advertising Losing government support, Bauhaus moves to Dessau, near Berlin Walter Gropius designs new headquarters building for the Bauhaus in Dessau At the Bauhaus Josef Albers designs alphabet based on 3 primary shapes Former students, H. Bayer and J. Schmidt join faculty at Bauhaus Bauhaus institutes new course in 'Typography and Advertising Art' Monet completes two huge mural cycles of water lilies at Giverny Art Deco shown at Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Moderne in Paris Hunter and August invent photographic type composing machine in London Citroen lights up its name on the Eiffel Tower in Paris General Motors employs visual stylist Harley Earl Burma Shave signs introduced on roads in United States Brodovitch wins five medals at Paris Exposition Lazlo Moholy-Nagy introduces word 'Typophoto' Robert Michel joins group 'Das Neue Frankfurt' Exhibits from Paris Exposition shown in New York department stores Soviet filmmaker Eisenstein makes 'Battleship Potemkin' |
Silversmith Jean Puiforcat forms group "Five
Modern Artists" in Paris El Lissitzky champions the book as "the most monumental work of art" Claude Monet dies Ralph Walker's Barclay Vesey Telephone Building in New York "Cahiers d'Art' magazine begins Le Corbusier builds 40 austere, modern houses at Pessac, near Bordeaux Abstract Surrealist painter Joan Miro creates 'Dog barking at the moon' Bauhaus poster for Kandinsky exhibit designed by Herbert Bayer Frederick Kiesler arrives in USA Willi Baumeister's article "Neue Typographie" appears in Die Form Herbert Bayer writes articles on basic design for Bauhaus magazine |
Society of Typographic Arts founded in Chicago Brodovitch decorates Prunier restaurant in Paris Frederick Kiesler calls for 'telemuseum' in New York Weissenhof Siedlung built in Stuttgart AM Cassandre designs 'l'Etoile du Nord' poster in Paris Dymaxion house designed by Buckminster Fuller Film Napoleon by Abel Gance opens Bauhaus in Dessau opens Herbert Bayer designs cover for January issue of Bauhaus magazeine Le Corbusier publishes Vers une Architecture Karl Teige writes essay 'Modern Type' which sets tenets of the New Typography 'International Style' born at Deutscher Werkbund exposition Will Burtin studies at Kolner Werkschule Robert Mallet-Stevens designs white cubist houses in Paris Schwitters founds radical typographic group the 'ring neuer werbegestalter' |
Tschichold writes 'Die Neue Typographie' Le Corbusier designs Villa Savoye Frederick Kiesler designs Film Guild Cinema poster First use of electric billboard at Times Square in New York Paul Renner designs typeface Futura Brodovitch works for Atelia, design studio of Aux Trois Quartiers Piet Zwart designs poster for international film festival Conde Nast invites Dr. M.F. Agha to become Art Director of Vogue Morris Benton designs typeface Broadway 'Harpist' by Jacques Lipchitz is early Cubist sculpture Hannes Mayer becomes director At Bauhaus Josef Albers becomes head of the Basic Course Bauhaus magazine cover by Herbert Bayer utilizes photomontage Joost Schmidt heads the Printing Workshop at the Bauhaus Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Breuer leave faculty at the Bauhaus Walter Peterhans directs new photography department at Bauhaus International Exhibition of Printing in Cologne, Germany Pierre Chareau designs neoplastic 'House of Glass' in Paris Domus magazine begins Expressionist painter Otto Dix completes tryptich 'The City' A.M. Cassandre designs billboards for French weekly VU AUDAC, first industrial design organization, founded Herbert Bayer leaves Bauhaus to pursue independent career at Dorland Agency Dali and Bunuel create Surrealist film 'Un Chien Andalou' Morris Fuller Benton designs 'Parisian' typeface Dane Carl Dreyer creates early art film 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' Marcel Breuer designs tubular chair |
S.H.DeRoos designs typeface 'Nobel' Dr. M.F. Agha arrives in USA Douglas McMurtrie publishes Modern Typography and Layout in Chicago Mies van der Rohe designs German Pavilion at Barcelona World's Fair Hugh Ferris publishes The Metropolis of Tomorrow Frederick Kiesler designs Film Guild Cinema in New York Bolsheviks denounce Alexander Rodchenko Museum of Modern Art opens in New York Gebrauchsgraphik magazine begins publishing Marshall Fields shows R.Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion House" A.M. Cassandre designs typeface Bifur Richard Neutra designs Lovell Health House in California Raymond Loewy designs Gestetner duplicator L. Sutnar begins as Art Editor for Prague publisher Druzstevni Prace M.F. Agha immigrates to U.S. at Art Director of Conde Nast Publications Cahiers d'Art magazine begins in Paris, edited by Christian Zervos Werner Graff publishes 'Es kommt der neue Fotograf!' in Germany Bernhard designs 'Bernhard Fashion' typeface |
Grant Wood paints American Gothic Chrysler Building by William Van Alan is triumph of Art Deco Frederick Kiesler receives certification as architect in New York Vladimir Mayakovsky commits suicide Mies van der Rohe becomes director of the Bauhaus Horst P. Horst arrives in Paris to work for Le Corbusier Epstein©ˆs sculpture 'Genesis' creates controversy in Britain Brodovitch teaches at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Design First working phototypesetter installed by Waterlow & Sons in England Horst begins fashion photography for Vogue in France and America Heinz and Bodo Rasch publish 'Gefesselter Blick' on 20's design Constantin Brancusi creates sculpture 'Fish' Massimo Vignelli born in Milan, Italy Herbert Bayer publishes diagrams suggesting new exhibit techniques Gropius, Breuer, Moholy-Nagy and Bayer collaborate on Werkbund exhibit |
Brodovitch receives first commission from N.W.
Ayer agency Moholy Nagy designs set for Madam Butterfly Theo Van Doesburg dies and De Stijl movement loses driving force 'The Persistence of Memory' painted by Surrealist Salvador Dali Matisse draws 'The Dance' Paul Klee leaves the faculty of the Bauhaus Nazis view Bauhaus as anti-German and physically destroy it Museum of Modern Art holds International Style Exhibit Times New Roman typeface designed by Stanley Morison Max Bill and The'o Ballmer develop purist, mathematical design approach Leo Lionni invited by Marineti to join Futurists Cesar Domela organized exhibit 'Photomontage' in Berlin 'Machine age' style dominates industrial design |
"Design for the Machine" Exhibit Herbert Matter designs Swiss Tourism posters Publication of The International Style by Hitchcock and Johnson Dessau government dissolves Bauhaus Mies van der Rohe transfers Bauhaus to Berlin Faculty members Albers and Kandinsky remain at Bauhaus until end Stanley Morison restyles London Times, introducing type Times New Roman Russel Wright designs modern table radio for Wurlitzer Aalto designs biomorphic plywood curved chair Gerhard Maria Hoptop designs Surrealist ad for insurance company Donald Deskey designs interior of Radio City Music Hall in Art Deco Man Ray applies Surrealism to poster for London Underground AM Cassandre designs Dubonnet poster Norman Bel Geddes writes Horizons Term 'International Style' coined for architecture exhibit at Museum of Modern Art Gustav B. Jensen designs Golden Blossom Honey Jar Alexander Liberman works for Lucien Vogel on Vu magazine in Paris Schwitters lecture heralds beginning of corporate identity design In Russia Stalin disbands Constructivist movement as "dangerously subversive" Paul Schuitema designs postage stamps for the Dutch PTT Hans Richter goes to Russia |
American Art Deco defined by Donald Deskey Picasso designs cover for first Surrealist periodical Minotaure Kandinsky moves to Paris Brodovitch holds first "Design Laboratory" for students in Philadelphia Charles Coiner designs Blue Eagle symbol for National Recovery Act Albers arrives in USA to teach at Black Mountain College Hans Hoffman opens school in New York Deutscher Werkbund ends in Germany First issue of 'Minotaure' has Surrealist cover by Picasso Louis Comfort Tiffany dies Kurt Schwitters declared a 'degenerate artist' by Nazis Jan Tschichold flees from Nazis to Switzerland New Deal Arts programs begun by U.S. Government Max Burchartz dismissed by the Nazis F.H.K. Henrion trained as textile designer in Paris Black Mountain College opens in North Carolina Berlin Bauhaus closes Rudolph Arnheim publishes 'Film as Art' |
Brodovitch becomes Art Director at Harper's Bazaar Kem Weber designs 'Airline' armchair Walter Paepcke hires Egbert Jacobson as Art Director at CCA First modern graphics used in CCA advertising Xanti Shawinsky designs Surrealist poster for Coty cosmetics Chrysler Airflow car Kem Weber designs 'Zephyr' digital clock Op artist Victor Vasarely begins his series 'Zebras' Frederick Kiesler designs facade for Jay's Shoes in Buffalo Richard Neutra designs Ayn Rand house in California P.M. magazine begun by Dr. Robert Leslie Machine Art Exhibit at Museum of Modern Art in New York F.H.K. Henrion trained as poster designer at Atelier Colin in Paris Brodovitch is Art Director at Harper's Bazaar magazine Gertrude Stein returns to USA for lecture tour after 31 year absence Pioneering fine art photographer Gertrude Kasebier dies |
'Typographische Gestaltung' by Tschichold Russel Wright designs 'Modern Living' line of furniture Ben Nicholson and wife Barbara Hepworth innovate abstract sculpture in Britain Spartan Company introduces "Bluebird" art deco radio Ansel Adams wins acclaim with his book 'Making a Photograph' Raymond Loewy©ˆs 'Coldspot' refridgerator first sold Government©ˆs Treasury Art Project (TAP) includes Pollack and de Kooning Herbert Bayer designs Surrealist ad for Adrianol Emulsion Kasimir Malevich dies Herbert Matter designs posters for Swiss resorts and travel Edward Johnston designs for London Underground Bauhaus graduate Xanti Schwawinsky designs poster for Olivetti in Italy |
Posters shown at MoMA's 'Posters by Cassandre'
exhibit Frederick Kiesler receives US citizenship Aalto designs biomorphic "rippled glass" vase Vanity Fair magazine ends publication Life magazine begins new era for photographers Frank Lloyd Wright designs Kaufmann house 'Fallingwater' at Bear Run PA Herbert Matter emigrates to United States Alexander Korda's production of HG Wells "Things to Come" Alfred Barr publishes Cubism and Abstract Art Penguin Books founded by Allen Lane Meret Oppenheim creates Surrealist 'Object' (fur lined cup and saucer) Ben Shahn designs posters with strong political and social themes Edward Ronthaler establishes photographic typesetting firm Olivetti hires Giovanni Pintori to design products and corporate identity Walter Dorwin Teague designs the "A" filling station for Texaco Salvador Dali creates his 'Lobster Telephone' Egbert Jacobson hired as design director at Container Corp. of America John Heartfield produces anti-Nazi issues of "AIZ" Herbert Bayer writes "A Contribution to Book Typography" Robert Hunter Middleton designs Bodoni-inspired 'Modern 735' typeface |
Franklin Institute in Pittsburgh exhibits outdoor
advertising posters AM Cassandre designs the Ford billboard in New York New Bauhaus begun in Chicago by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" held by Nazi Party in Munich Picasso paints 'Guernica' in response to Spanish Civil War tragedy Loewy restyles cream separator La Grande Illusion directed by Jean Renoir Architects Costo and Niemeyer design first 'modern' building in South America Frederick Kiesler works on his 'vision machine' investigation Look magazine begins publication E. McKnight Kauffer designs posters for London Underground Railways AM Cassandre designs Peignot typeface Container Corporation begins ad campaign by using A.M. Cassandre Walter Gropius emigrates to the United States Gropius and Breuer teach at Harvard Herbert Bayer visits United States Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques held in Paris Sutnar designs Czech pavilion at Paris Exhibition Typeface Bell Gothic introduced by Mergenthaler Linotype for telephone books Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer exhibited at Museum of Modern Art Russel Wright designs "American Modern" tableware |
Ladislav Sutnar designs pavilion for Czechoslovakia
at NY World's Fair New York World's Fair Typeface Caledonia designed by William Addison Dwiggins John Heartfield flees Czechoslovakia to London Brodovitch wins third prize in MOMA's Knockdown Furniture competition AIZ (Arbeiter-Illustriert-Zeitung) magazine ceases publication Badio-Vilato designs Surrealist poster about Spanish Civil War Film 'Andalusian Dog' shown at International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris Mies van der Rohe assumes directorship of Armour Institute in Chicago Raymond Loewy begins working with Studebaker Company 'Picture Post' begins Three Brancusi abstract sculptures installed in Tirgu Jui Park, Romania AM Cassandre designs poster for Dole Pineapple Juice Museum of Modern Art mounts exhibit 'Bauhaus 1919-1928' "Bauhaus 1919-1928" exhibit brings avant-garde ideas to United States public Herbert Bayer emigrates to the United States Serge Eisenstein makes film 'Alexander Nevsky' Joseph Binder designs poster for New York World's Fair Georg Trump designs typeface 'Schadow' In Chicago Gyorgy Kepes designs cover for "More Business" magazine |
Bradbury Thompson designs first Westvaco Inspiration
magazine Charles Coiner designs citizens defense symbol system Horst P. Horst photographs controversial 'The Mainbocher Corset' for Conde Nast Leo Lionni emigrates to United States, works for N.W. Ayer & Son "Bauhaus: 1918-1928" exhibit at Museum of Modern Art Joseph Binder designs poster for New York World's Fair Rene Magritte paints illusionistic 'Time Transfixed' Lazlo Moholy-Nagy begins the School of Design in Chicago Nazi aggression in Czechoslovakia ends Devetsil group activities Issue of P.M. magazine devoted to three Herbert Bayer articles on design Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans creates children's book 'Madeline' Gyorgy Kepes designs booklet for Container Corporation of America Museum of Non-Objective Painting opens in New York |
Alvin Lustig designs New Directions book jackets At New York World's Fair, Jean Carlu paints mural at French Pavillion Eames and Saarinen molded plywood furniture first shown at MOMA exhibit 'Jugend' magazine ends publication Fred Hauck designs format for Newsday Konrad Bauer writes "Adventur and Kunst" Paul Klee paints Death and Fire Australian painter Sidney Nolan creates controversy with painting Boy and the Moon' F.H.K. Henrion designs posters for UK Ministry of Information Herbert Bayer teaches design course in New York sponsored by Advertising Guild 500th Anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of movable type Alex Steinweiss designs covers for Modern Packaging magazine Egbert Jacobson works on Color Harmony Manual at Container Corp. of America |
Jean Carlu's poster "America's Answer: Production"
is distributed Smoking Camel cigarette sign introduced on Times Square in New York Alexander Liberman arrives in New York and works at Vogue magazine Royal Dadmun designs International Harvester mark at Raymond Loewy DU magazine begins Siegfried Giedion publishes book 'Space ,Time and Architecture' Painter Paul Nash completes 'Totes Meer' (Dead Sea) Lucky Strike cigarette package designed by Loewy George Krikorian designs series of ads for New York Times Will Burtin designs issue of AD magazine with insert of 10 years of his work |
Kepes teaches camouflage course at New Bauhaus
in Chicago Frederick Kiesler designs installation for Surrealist Gallery 'Art of This Century' Graphis magazine begun by Walter Herdeg Horst P. Horst photographs brooding Marlene Dietrich Frederick Kiesler designs biomorphic rocker and oak chair Eames designs Arts & Architecture covers American artist Edward Hopper paints 'Nighthawks' Federal Art Project employs 3500 artists Herbert Bayer designs "Road to Victory" exhibit at MoMA Magazine publisher Conde Nast dies Alexander LIberman joins Conde Nast Publications 'Advance Guard of Advertising Artists' exhibit at The A-D Gallery in NY Gyorgy Kepes designs book 'Paperboard goes to war' for Container Corporation |
Mondrian paints "Broadway Boogie Woogie" Frederick Kiesler designs Surrealist typography layout for Vogue article Norman Bel Geddes works on camoflage project for US government First one-man show by artist Jackson Pollock Willem Sandberg works on "experimenta typographica" Alexander Calder exhibits his sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art First Irving Penn photograph appears on Vogue magazine cover Herbert Bayer designs exhibit 'Airways to Peace' for MoMA Filmmaker Maya Deren makes 'Meshes of the Afternoon' Paul Rand designs ads for Dubonnet wine and Coronet brandy |
Gyorgy Kepes writes 'Language of Vision' Picasso creates 'Man with a Sheep', his most famous sculpture Wassily Kandinsky dies 'Simplicissimus' magazine ends publication Francis Bacon paints tryptych Figures at the Base of a Cross Raymond Loewy begin corporate identity for International Harvester Company School of Design merges with IIT in Chicago Art by Georgia O'Keeffe appears on cover of "View" magazine Noguchi designs biomorphic black chess table Fernand Leger designs cover for "View" magazine Herbert Bayer meets Walter Paepcke of Container Corporation of America J. Walter Thompson Agency hires Herbert Bayer as consultant art director |
'Type Talks' publication introduced by American
Typographers Association J.J. Augustin Publishers release Ballet book by Brodovitch Earl S. Tupper's plastic ware available on market Alvin Lustig teaches at Black Mountain College in North Carolina "Power of the Pacific" photography exhibit at MoMA Eva Zeisel designs biomorphic "Town and Country" dinnerware Will Burtin becomes art director at Fortune magazine PRINT magazine features article on Bauhaus importance to design education |
Charles Eames produces shaped plywood chair Gropius founds The Architects Collaborative (TAC) Aalto designs biomorphic stool Germaine Richier completes shocking sculpture 'The bat-man' George Nelson become director of design at Herman Miller Company First phototype composition by Intertype Armin Hofmann begins teaching at Basel School of Arts & Crafts Charles and Ray Eames begin association with Herman Miller Inc. Hans and Florence Knoll founds Knoll Associates Herbert Matter begins designing for Knoll Associates Leo Lionni teaches design at Black Mountain College in North Carolina Museum of Modern Art in New York shows Eames chair designs Paul Rand writes 'Thoughts on Design' Isamu Noguchi designs cover for "View" magazine Herbert Bayer moves from New York to Aspen, Colorado Alvin Lustig designs cover for Fortune magazine |
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy writes 'Vision in Motion' George Nelson designs wall clock Frederick Kiesler designs Salles de Superstition in Paris Malik Verlag printing company closes in Germany Marseille Apartment Block built by Le Corbusier 'Man Pointing' sculpted by Alberto Giacometti Noguchi designs biomorphic table for Herman Miller Silas Rhodes founds School of Visual Arts in New York Architect Richard Neutra completes Kauffmann Desert House in California Pierre Bonnard dies Henri Cartier-Bresson has one-man show at Museum of Modern Art Jan Tschichold designs Penguin books Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder begin teaching at School of Design in Basel Alex Steinweiss has exhibition 'Visual Communication Techniques' at A-D Gallery |
Andrew Wyeth paints 'Christina's World' Eduardo Paolozzi does early Pop art collages Alvin Lustig has exhibit of his work at A.D. Gallery in New York Charles Eames designs biomorphic chaise and fiberglass rocking chair American Color-Field painter Barnett Newman creates 'Ornament 1' Architect Pietro Belluschi designs the Equitable building in Portland, Oregon Mass production of plastic goods, using new molding techniques Kiesler designs set for Stavinsky's oratorio Oedipus Rex Architect Eero Saarinen designs General Motors Technical Center in Michigan Massimo Vignelli studies at Liceo Artistico di Breara in Milan, Italy Ben Rose shows his photographs at A-D Gallery in New York |
Brodovitch designs first issue of Portfolio magazine Photon markets first phototypesetting machine Charles Eames designs modular storage system using industrial parts Philip Johnson designs glass house in New Canaan, CT Ladislav Sutnar and Buckminster Fuller produce 'Transportation' book Frederick Kiesler lectures at Institute of Design in Chicago Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency founded Fulvio Bianconi designs biomorphic glass handkerchief-like vase Hal Zamboni exhibits his graphic work at A-D Gallery in New York Leo Lionni art director at Fortune magazine & design director for Olivetti Charles Eames designs Case Study house in California Alvin Lustig exhibits his work at A-D Gallery in New York Time magazine article on Raymond Lowey Will Burtin has exhibit of his work at A-D Gallery in New York Grand opening of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York |
Alliance Graphique Internationale founded Thomas Watson Jr. of IBM asks Eliot Noyes to redesign his office and others Museum of Modern Art has first "Good Design" exhibition United Nations Secretariat building completed 'Hunting' chair by Borge Hogensen Alvin Eisenman appointed lecturer at Yale School of Fine Arts Container Corporation begins "Great Ideas of Western Man" ad series HFG Ulm founded and headed by Max Bill Carlo Mollino designs biomorphic see-through table Frederick Kiesler begins lecturing at Yale University Walter Paepcke conceives CCA's "Great Ideas of Western Man" ads Focus of art world shifts from Paris to New York Jackson Pollock paints 'Number 27' John Heartfield returns to Germany from England Jean Cocteau produces film 'Orpheus' Morton Goldsholl exhibits at A-D Gallery in New York Alexander Nesbitt publishes "Lettering Art" |
Introduction of CBS Eye symbol, designed by William
Golden Brodovitch designs Portfolio magazine Walter Paepcke and Egbert Jacobson found first Aspen design Conference Alvin Lustig teaches at Yale Marianne Straub creates concentric 'Surrey' fabric design FHK Henrion designs pavilion for Festival of Britain Braun introduces 550 shaver Rat fur Formgebung established in Germany Kurosawa creates film 'Rashomon' |
Wire' chair by Harry Bertoia Japanese Industrial Designers' Association formed Prospectus written for The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany Leo Lionni designs Olivetti exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York Stanley Meston designs Golden Arches signage for McDonald's Alvin Lustig collaborates with Victor Gruen on Northland signage project Wire chair designed by Harry Bertoia First assemby of Alliance Graphique Internationale in London First production of Charles and Ray Eames' House of Cards game Leo Lionni teaches at Yale Museum of Non-Objective Painting changes name to Guggenheim Museum |
Allen Hurlburt is Art Director at LOOK magazine Leo Lionni chairs International Design Conference in Aspen Frederick Kiesler completes sculpture 'Galaxy' for Philip Johnson's garden First issue of Playboy magazine Herbert Matter teaches at Yale Herbert Bayer designs World Geo-Graphic Atlas Raoul Dufy dies Push Pin Almanac first published Herbert Bayer designs World Geo-Graphic Atlas for CCA 'Stile Industria' launched in Italy Vicke Lindstrand designs biomorphic black vase Brodovitch is guest critic at Yale School of Art Construction begins at The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm Picasso begins work on "Picasso and the Human Comedy" suite of drawings Henry Wolf becomes Art Director at Esquire magazine |
Push Pin Studios founded by Glaser, Sorel, Chwast
and Ruffins Exhibition 'Four American Graphic Designers' at Museum of Modern Art Henri Matisse dies Poland magazine begins Simon Rodia completes work on Watts Towers in Los Angeles Andre Derain dies Hermann Zapf publishes Manuale Typographicum E. McKnight Kauffer dies Milan Triennale Brodovitch teaches at Yale Adrian Frutiger designs Univers typefaces Josef Albers teaches at The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany Eliot Noyes designs Bubble prefab housing First Issue of Industrial Design magazine Buckminster Fuller patents geodesic dome |
Saul Bass designs poster and titles for film
"Man With the Golden Arm" Steichen's Family of Man exhibit at MoMA Leo Lionni president of American Institute of Graphic Arts Josef Muller-Brockmann designs safety posters Official opening and dedication of The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany Alvin Lustig dies Picasso celebrates 75 birthday with exhibitions of his work Maurice Utrillo dies Ivan Chermayeff graduated from Yale "Ergonomics" hailed by Henry Dreyfus in book, Designing for People Fernand Leger dies |
Eliot Noyes asked to become Consultant Director
of Design at IBM Charles Eames designs lounge chair for Herman Miller Paul Rand teaches at Yale Noyes asks Eero Saarinen to design buidlings for IBM Design Centre opens in United Kingdom Saarinen designs 151 "tulip" chair Eliot Noyes asks Paul Rand to design new identity for IBM Wright©ˆs Guggenheim Museum opens in New York British artists Hockney, Hamilton, and Blake begin 'Op art' in Britain American artists Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg begin 'Op art' Sydney, Australia Opera house design by Danish architect Joern Utzon |
Bradbury Thompson begins teaching at Yale Constantin Brancusi dies Armin Hofmann teaches at Yale Black Mountain College closes Milan Triennale Frederick Kiesler begins work on 'The Shrine of the Book' in Israel Typeface Helvetica designed by Max Meidinger and Edouard Hofmann Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar design firm established in New York Marcello Nizzoli designs sewing machine for Mirella Collier's magazine ends publication Ettore Sottsass creates ceramics with exaggerated geometric forms Construction begun on Sydney Opera House Seagram building by Mies van der Rohe Noyes collaborates on design for IBM's RAMAC computer Frantisek Kupka dies Jay Doblin heads IIT Design program |
Otto Storch redesigns McCall's magazine Neue Grafik by Josef Muller-Brockmann heralds Swiss International style Will Burtin designs Cell exhibit for Upjohn Charles Eames and R. Buckminster Fuller visit The Hochschule fur Gestaltung Maurice de Vlaminck dies Jasper Johns paints 'Alley Oop' Eliot Noyes and Gordon Smith present new IBM at Brussels World Fair Hermann Zapf designs Optima typeface Fire at Museum of Modern Art destroys Monet 'Water Lilies' painting Communication Arts magazine first published Alexander Calder creates kinetic sculpture 'Mobile' Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete Seagram building George Rouault dies ' Egg' chair designed by Arne Jacobson Eero Saarinen designs TWA terminal at Idlewild in New York Westvaco publishes first copy of "Westvaco Classics Books" Frank Lloyd Wright designs Phillips 66 gas station in Cloquet, MN |
Rand, Noyes, Matter and Eames collaborate on
Westinghouse identity Richard Coyne publishes Communication Arts magazine Typography USA forum sponsored by ICTA, NY Willy Fleckhaus designs Twen magazine F.H.K. Henrion designs corporate identity for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Frank Lloyd Wright dies Brodovitch designs book Observations with Truman Capote and Richard Avedon Frederick Kiesler designs 'Endless House' Letraset begins marketing rub-off lettering Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York Journal New Graphic Design from Zurich presents Swiss design The Typography of Order written by Emil Ruder William Golden dies |
Pop art Volkswagen ad campaign Leo Lionni designs first childrens book, Little Blue and Little Yellow Pentel introduced as first felt tip pen Yves St. Laurent introduces "Beatnik" look in new apparel designs Chermayeff designs Chase symbol Marc Chagall creates windows for medical center in Jerusalem Book Moments Preserved by Irving Penn release Aldo van Eyck designs brutalist structure for Amsterdam orphanage Alvin Eisenman is President of AIGA Designer Fred Hauck dies Malcom Grear joins faculty at RISD Over $11 billion spent in United States on advertising Venturi and Rausch build Guild House in Philadelphia Chermayeff & Geismar design identity for Chase Manhattan Bank Eleven leading designers from Paris exhibit at Gallery 303 in New York Gene Federico designs at McCalls magazine Massimo and Lella Vignelli establish Vignelli Design Office in Milan Editorial art from McCalls magazine shown at Gallery 303, The Composing Room |
Frederick Kiesler designs 'The Universal Theater' Typographica magazine Archigram started in United Kingdom Grandma Moses dies at 90 Le Corbusier designs The Convent of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette in France Charles Eames designs Mathematica exhibition Architect Maekawa Kunio designs Festival Hall in Tokyo Noyes designs Selectric typewriter for IBM Photographer Bill Brandt publishes "Perspective of Nudes" collection Ted Nelson coins term "Hypermedia" AIGA presents exhibition "Sutnar: visual design in action" Aaron Burns publishes book "Typography" Freeman Craw designs 'Ad Lib' typeface for ATF |
George Lois designs Esquire magazine covers Andy Warhol paints Campbell soup can Eros magazine produced by Ralph Ginzburg Roy Lichtenstein causes stir with giant comic-strip paintings Eero Saarinen designs TWA Terminal at JFK Airport Charles Eames designs multi-image shows for IBM at NY World's Fair Andy Warhol paints Marilyn Monroe Diptych Loewy designs Avanti sportscar for Studebaker 'Arco' light designed by Achilles Courreges Ed Ruscha paints 'Oof' Chermayeff & Geismar design identity for Chase Manhattan Bank 'Graphic Design/Japan' exhibit at Rochester Institute of Technology |
AM Cassandre designs logotype for Yves Saint-Laurent Jacques Villon dies Robert Rauschenberg creates sculpture of goat titled 'Monogram' Architect Paul Rudolph completes School of Art and Architecture building at Yale F.H.K. Henrion is President of Alliance Graphique Internationale Walter Allner becomes art director at Fortune magazine Roy Lichtenstein paints 'Whoom' Bridget Riley paints 'Fall' Ad Reinhardt exhibits in Americans 1963 exhibit at Museum of Modern Art Pop Art exhibit at Guggenheim shows work by Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg, etc. Georges Braque dies Herbert Bayer designs music tent at Aspen, Colorado Armin Hofmann designs William Tell poster |
Henry Wolf designs Show magazine Kenneth Hiebert teaches at School of Design Basel Karl Gerstner writes Designing Programmes Bridget Riley's Op art Seymour Chwast designs Artone Studio India Ink carton First poster museum opens in Warsaw, Poland American painter Jasper Johns creates ŒPainted Bronze II" Warsaw International Poster Biennial begins Andy Warhol creates 'Brillo' Architect Hugh Casson's Elephant House opens in London Charles Coiner completes work with Container Corporation account at N.W. Ayer Chermayeff & Geismar design Mobil identity program The New York State Theatre is designed by Philip Johnson Roy Lichtenstein paints 'As I opened Fire' 'Where the Wild Things Are' is published by Maurice Sendak Vignelli awarded Grand Prix Triennale di Milano for Graphic Design |
Will Burtin chairs Vision 65 conference at Southern
Illinois University HfG exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Frederick Kiesler dies "Mondrian" look in apparel introduced by Yves St. Laurent In Chicago Massimo Vignelli cofounds Unimark International Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) formed American sculptor David Smith creates 'Cubi' series Le Corbusier (Charles-Edourard Jeanneret) dies F.H.K. Henrion coordinates design for British Pavilion at EXPO 67 in Montreal "Vernacular Design" stimulated by 'Architecture without Architects' exhibit "Soft Toilet" piece shown by Claes Oldenburg Saarinen designs CBS building in New York Rand designs IBM logotype 'Hammond' chair designed by Poul Kjaerholm Bell Trimline telephone designed |
Dot Zero produced by Unimark Leo Lionni made honorary member of Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago Kenneth Hiebert assumes chair of graphic design, Philadelphia College of Art Brodovitch returns to France, living in Oppede-le Vieux Otl Aicher in Zurich to design corporate image for Munich Olympic Games Jean Arp dies Painter Kenneth Noland uses stained canvas to produce 'Par Transit' Christopher Pullman graduates from Yale Robert Venturi writes 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture' Yves St. Laurent introduces "Pop Art" T-shirt dresses inspired by Andy Warhol Lucas Samaras constructs mirrored room Painter David Hockney creates 'Peter getting out of Nick©ˆs pool' Lance Wyman designs graphics for Olympic games in Mexico Alberto Giacometti dies 'Globe' chair designed by Eero Aarnio Archizoom established in Italy |
Paul Arthur designs signage at Expo 67 in Montreal Inflatable chair by De Pas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi Emil Ruder publishes Typography R. Buckminster Fuller designs geodesic dome U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67 Lubalin designs "No MoreWar" poster Tomas Moldonado leaves The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany Walker Evans teaches at Yale Six million of Milton Glaser's Bob Dylan posters are produced Stardust Casino pylon sign introduced in Las Vegas FHK Henrion directs design at British pavilion at EXPO Œ67 in Montreal Design for the Real World published by Victor Papanek DePas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi design inflatable chair David Hockney 'A Bigger Splash' Raymond Loewy designs corporate identity for Shell International Nam June Paik exhibits video works at Howard Gallery in New York |
Herb Lubalin designs 'Avant Garde' magazine Armin Hofmann designs concrete wall sculpture at Bachmatt School Kee Van Dongen dies Mies van der Rohe's 'The Gallery of the Twientieth Century' dedicated in Berlin Film "Powers of Ten" produced by Charles and Ray Eames MoMA holds "Word and Image" design exhibit Brodovitch moves to Le Thor, France Artist Edward Kienholz creates bizarre work 'Portable war memorial' AM Cassandre dies The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm closed Marcel Duchamp dies Advanced Course in graphic design instituted at Basel School of Design Compugraphic produces Model 2961 photo typesetting machine Zanotta designs 'Sacco' chair MIT establishes Center For Advanced Visual Studies STA sponsors Trademarks USA exhibit in Chicago Wolfgang Weingart creates intuitive typography in Switzerland Show 'IBM at Gallery 303' in New York presents work by IBM Display and Design |
Charles and Ray Eames produces film "Tops" Peter Max article featured in LIFE magazine Bauhaus "50 years" exhibit Bauhaus book by Hans Wingler Calder's sculpture 'La Grand Vitesse' installed in Grand Rapids, Michigan Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe die R. Buckminster Fuller designs Samuel Beckett theatre at Oxford University "Sacco" (bean bag) chair designed by Gatti, Paolini and Teodora SITE architects design Best department stores Ladislav Sutnar dies Allen Jones designs 'Fetish' furniture Herbert Bayer writes "chromatic gate 1969/20" on painting Ettore Sottsass designs 'Valentine' portable typewriter for Olivetti |
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