by Witold | May 21, 2011 | Design
The standard rap on Art Nouveau, as I remember from my student art history books, is that it was a short-lived (roughly 1890-1905) hiatus between the historic revival styles of the nineteenth century and the true-blue modernism of the Bauhaus. Art Nouveau was largely...
by Witold | Jan 16, 2011 | Design
I met Saul Bass and his wife Elaine in 1994, at a design conference in Aspen. He was a sweet man, but I remember being rather in awe of him. Bass (1920-1996), a graphic designer, had elevated the opening credit sequence of movies into a miniature art form. His...
