50 covers of La Luna de Metrópoli

A collection of covers designed by Art Director Rodrigo Sanchez for La Luna de Metrópoli, a weekly supplement of the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo.

A nice resource of typography

Art Nouveau: a new style for a new age

Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
"The exhibition was organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington in 2001.
Part 1 of the 3-part exhibition, The World's Fair in Paris, 1900, showed a selection of works exhibited there by European and American artists.
Part 2 explored diverse sources that inspired the style, which flourished in the years around 1900.
Part 3 presented works associated with the cities of Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Glasgow, Munich, Turin, New York, and Chicago."

More...

The New Video Arcade in Spain Might Be the Movie Theater

"MADRID — For the last three years, Enrique Martínez has been toiling like a 3-D warrior to let the games begin.

The result is a hybrid movie theater with all the digital fire and fury of a video game: fog, black light, flashing green lasers, high-definition digital projectors, vibrating seats, game pads and dozens of 17-inch screens attached to individual chairs. And naturally, there’s buttered popcorn."

By DOREEN CARVAJAL

Published: February 26, 2007

Read more...

When Inconsistency becomes Consistent

It was a couple of hours into the judging process of the Type Directors Club TDC 53 competition that I saw the first cover of Metrópoli, a weekly supplement of the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo. Well, it was then that I saw the first five — then ten, and maybe more — covers of Metrópoli. I was initially attracted to the super tightly set egyptian slab typeface of the masthead in all its uppercase glory. As I sidestepped through the table to see the rest of the covers, the blocky letters mutated, distorted, adapted and genuflected to a dizzying variety of styles and tropes, of mannerisms and executions as the imagery — in this specific context, typographically-based imagery — changed completely from cover to cover. “Consistency”, as we know it, was clearly not the goal.

Read More...

Bauhaus

"Bauhaus is a German word originating in the two words “bauen” (to build) and “haus” (house). Originally called the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, the name was coined by Walter Gropius for the art school that he founded when the fine and applied arts schools in Weimar were merged in 1919."
Read more: The Design Encyclopedia

Bauhaus - Archiv Museum of Design

About Illustration

Illustration Web
"We represent 100+ contemporary illustrators of the highest order. They are contributing to many exciting and innovative projects from the advertising, new media, graphic design, publishing, editorial and broadcast industries." Read more...
Artist Submission

Society of Illustrators
"On February 1, 1901 a group of nine artists and one advising businessman founded the Society with this credo: “The object of the Society shall be to promote generally the art of illustration and to hold exhibitions from time to time."
The Society of Illustrators is located at 128 East 63rd Street, New York
Museum of American Illustration

Apply for a Grant

2007 Grants: Visual Arts and Film/Video
Visual Arts may include painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation, photo-based work, contemporary crafts, public art, and interdisciplinary projects.
Film/Video may include experimental documentary, animation, experimental film or video, non-traditional narrative, installation, and interdisciplinary projects.
Deadline: March 5, 2007

2008 Grants: Emerging Fields, Innovative Literature and Performing Arts
Emerging Fields may include all forms of digital arts, audio work, multidisciplinary projects, new genres, and innovative literature.
Innovative Literature may include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, as well as genre-defying work by writers who demonstrate exceptional stylistic, linguistic, and formal originality.
Performing Arts may include dance, music, theater, experimental music performance, experimental opera, spoken word, theater/performance art, and interdisciplinary projects.

Read more...