Czech book covers

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Some nice jacket designs from the Twenties and Thirties at the Smithsonian. I’ve been looking at a lot of Constructivist and Suprematist design recently and some of these come out of those styles. The Shaw jacket above was part of a series. Some of the companion designs can be seen in the excellent A2Z and More Signs by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding.

Via Design Observer.

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The art of Cai Guo-Qiang

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Inopportune: Stage One (2004).
9 cars and sequenced multi-channel tube lights.

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Inopportune: Stage Two (2004).

Tigers: papier-mâché, plaster, fibreglass, resin, painted hide.
Arrows: brass, bronze, bamboo, feathers.
Backdrop: Styrofoam, wood, canvas, acrylic paint.