“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection.”
One of the 32 stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): https://t.co/AzIDXXMGdh
Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... https://t.co/x7MxT6JrwE
‘The moiré effect’ is a visual phenomenon that occurs when two regular patterns, such as grids or lines, overlap and create a new pattern that wasn't originally there. This often results in wavy, rippled, or circular interference patterns. https://t.co/pX5usijaLj
Jan Tschichold, Design standards for the King Penguin series, 1948 from Pioneers of German Graphic Design, Callisto Publishers GmbH, 2017 #penguinbooks#jantschichold
Herbert Matter, trademark for Knoll Associates, 1946.
Matter served as Knoll’s chief graphic design consultant from 1946–1966. Informed by his training at Deberny et Peignot, he came up with the iconic elongated slab serif logo— first the full word, then the big K.
Spotlight on: Angelo Testa! Testa was one of the foremost American textile designers of the mid-20th C. He introduced to textile design abstract patterns using thick and thin lines, solid and outlined forms, positive and negative spaces, and clean pure colors #TextileTuesday