A comprehensive monograph exploring Alexander Girard's vivid and dynamic design career
Alexander Girard was a leading figure in mid-century American design, bringing sensational color and pattern to the modernist aesthetic. Organized by discipline, this stunning monograph covers Girard's prolific and groundbreaking output across textiles, furniture, interior design, graphic design, illustration, and architecture.
Favoring geometric patterns in as many palettes as possible, Girard is best known for his textiles series for design company Herman Miller and for his commercial interior projects, including La Fonda del Sol restaurant in New York and the Braniff International Airways rebrand.
Featuring more than 800 images, some of which have never before been published, this fascinating book covers Girard's wide-ranging impact on design, from textiles and wallpapers to painstakingly detailed interiors and curatorial projects.
Extensively researched and thoughtfully assembled by designer Todd Oldham, in partnership with Girard Studio, the book features double gatefolds that immerse the reader in Girard's object design sketches, the vibrant environmental panels created for Herman Miller's Action Office project, his designs for Braniff International Airways, and his tireless explorations in textile design.
The fi rst comprehensive collection of Nest, the magazine that revolutionized the way we look at interior space and decoration.
The brainchild of artist and designer Joe Holtzman, Nest magazine, published from 1997 to 2004, eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors of other magazines and instead featured non-traditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. The Best of Nest, created by master bookmaker Todd Oldham, includes selections from all 26 issues in a series of portfolios featuring the work of writers and photographers such as Michael Cunningham, Patti Smith, Nan Goldin, and Derry Moore. Holtzman also contributes an essay offering a look behind the scenes of each issue.
ALL ABOUT COLLAGE contains 32 pages of step-by-step instruction accompanied by vibrant photos and real kids enjoying every single project around collage.
Rock-and-roll goddess Joan Jett holds a beloved place in the world of music. She started her first band, The Runaways, at age fifteen and has blazed a trail that has inspired and thrilled her fans to this day. AMMO Books is proud to release this authorized, loving tribute conceived and authored by designer Todd Oldham. The book chronicles all aspects of her career and passions through images-from forming The Runaways to her years of touring with her band, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. JOAN JETT features many never-before-seen photos, ephemera, and excerpts from thirty years worth of interviews, carefully curated with Joan herself, covering the multi-decade career of a real rock-and-roll icon. A thoughtful introduction written by renowned indie rocker and Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna brings context to this exciting title.
Cette monographie nous plonge dans l'univers d'Alexander Girard (1907-1993), personnalité marquante de l'histoire du design américain de l'après-guerre. Son oeuvre, d'une grande diversité, couvre tout le spectre de la discipline, du design graphique au design d'objets, sans oublier le textile dont les couleurs vives, les motifs géométriques et les textures illuminèrent les intérieurs des classes moyennes.
Cet ouvrage compile une sélection intergénérationnelle et internationale de trente artistes qui donnent un nouveau souffle aux traditions artisanales textiles comme le crochet, la broderie, le patchwork et la couture en reconsidérant les indissociables duos art/artisanat, masculin/féminin, homo/hétérosexuel. Des interviews par des membres de la communauté LGBT et des passionnés éclairent le travail de ces artistes de la fibre textile et montrent la place de leur sexualité dans leur conception de la création artistique.
