Lines and dots.
Ben Shahn, “Supermarket” (1957)
Herbert Matter, Arts & Architecture (January 1945)
Ole Flensted, “Futura” mobile (1970)
Charles and Ray Eames, “Hang-It-All” (1953)
Unknown designer, from the “Helvetica” exhibit at MOMA
George Nelson ball clocks (1947)
Elisabeth Dunker, “Dot play” (2008)
Ray Eames, “Dot” pattern fabric design (1947)
Don’t forget Joan Miró
http://hhh.gavilan.edu/mturetzky/pols1/images/miro-garden.jpg!
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Don’t forget Joan Miró!
http://hhh.gavilan.edu/mturetzky/pols1/images/miro-garden.jpg
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Oops. Tried to fix a comment, posted twice instead. Sorry about that.
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Oh how those ball clocks make me happy!
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Mmm… Dots and lines… I love them because they look futuristic, 50s, atomic, organic, groovy, abstract and beautiful all at once. Lovely post.
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Oh I forgot to sciencey…
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Adelita Fina
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And also “The Dot and The Line, a Romance in Lower Mathematics” by Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth).
I love the Ben Shahn grocery carts! Upside down they look like the Knights of the Round Table.
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You should check Gego out, her work is awesome.
http://vvp.avu.cz/foto/aktivity/vystavy/freeing/malich-gego1.jpg
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yeap, Ben Shaun is pretty much a genius..have you read his book?
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Love the intrinsic dynamism of most of these. Let the wind blow through them and change them… a new sight every time. Reminds me of my organic chemistry lessons.
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perfect. love.
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Years ago I wrote for a museum catalog that sold a print of the Ben Shahn. Always really loved it. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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I thought of this posting today when I heard about Lucienne Day’s death. Although not exclusively dots and lines for some reason I thought she fitted here. I’m lucky to have a Ernest Race rocking chair in her silver birch print… just right for my little victorian house decorated in white with a bit of sooty black.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/03/lucienne-day-obituary)
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