Eames designed by Charles and Ray
The book “The Story of Eames Furniture” by Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart, who worked with Charles and Ray Eames for 30 years, bring us the real insight of the design process and hard team work behind the iconic pieces.
Through intense and self-critical teamwork, the Eames Office was the first to translate the theoretical approach of the Bauhaus into commercially successful design for a mass market. One can hardly exaggerate the relevance of Eames’s modern concept of design. In many cases the success of the pieces is based on the Office’s own development and perfection of production processes for its designs.
The face of type by Erik Spiekermann
Graphic designer, typographer, lecturer and professor, Erik Spiekermann, created numerous typefaces that quickly turned into classics.
Erik founded MetaDesign and later in 1990 together with Neville Brody FontShop that produces typefaces “by designers for designers”. They were the first to become digital distributors of fonts. Visit spiekermann.com
It’s about self-confidence, Sagmeister
If a wall of bananas can convey such a message anything could work: it’s all about confidence. You may have mixed feelings while observing a piece from Stefan Sagmeister, controversy and guts are his keys of success. Born in Austria and based in NY, he has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny. After working for Leo Burnett in Hong Kong and other firms in NY, he opened his design firm in 1993 and attracted a diverse clientele like the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner.
Interesting enough he goes on a year-long sabbatical around every seven years, where he does not take work from clients. He spends it experimenting with personal work and refreshing himself as a designer. Visit sagmeister.com.
Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution” - Sagmeister.
