Lines and dots.

Posted by Anna at D16 on December 23, 2009 – 1:40 pm
Filed under art & design, inspiration

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)

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15 Comments

  1. AHJ
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Don’t forget Joan Miró

    http://hhh.gavilan.edu/mturetzky/pols1/images/miro-garden.jpg!

  2. AHJ
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    Don’t forget Joan Miró!

    http://hhh.gavilan.edu/mturetzky/pols1/images/miro-garden.jpg

  3. AHJ
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    Oops. Tried to fix a comment, posted twice instead. Sorry about that.

  4. Live a Colorful Life
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Oh how those ball clocks make me happy!

  5. morris code
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    .. / .-.. — …- . / .. -

  6. Tania
    Posted December 24, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Mmm… Dots and lines… I love them because they look futuristic, 50s, atomic, organic, groovy, abstract and beautiful all at once. Lovely post.

  7. Tania
    Posted December 24, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Oh I forgot to sciencey…

  8. Stewf
    Posted December 24, 2009 at 4:44 am

    Adelita Fina

  9. Linda Wary Meyers
    Posted December 24, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    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.

  10. etty
    Posted December 25, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    You should check Gego out, her work is awesome.

    http://vvp.avu.cz/foto/aktivity/vystavy/freeing/malich-gego1.jpg

  11. .amanda.
    Posted December 28, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    yeap, Ben Shaun is pretty much a genius..have you read his book?

  12. Ashely Adams : Onlin
    Posted January 5, 2010 at 3:00 am

    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.

  13. nath
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:16 am

    perfect. love.

  14. Ruby
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    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.

  15. Liz
    Posted February 3, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    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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