design of graphics

Direct mailer for the <n>Comme des Garçons</n> Spring/Summer 1993 collection, designed by <n>Rei Kawakubo</n>.

A poster for <n>Thonet</n> featuring the <n>Cesca Chair (S 32)</n> designed by <n>Marcel Breuer</n>.

GAY, Jan
1932Garden City Publishing Company
8" x 5 3/4"
Decorations by Zhenya
VG
Scroll Down for (10) Additional Scans:
The author's real name is Helen Reitman, after she visited various nudist camps in Germany and Switzerland it prompted Jan to write her book "On Going Naked", which she published in 1932 with "decorations" by Zhenya. The book was so successful that she started her own nudist colony in Highlands, New York called the Out-of-Doors Club. Her book was also quickly adapted into a "roadshow" film called "Back to Nature" which was shown in theaters across the county in the Summer of 1933 to adult only audiences. In order to promote the book, film and club, Jan invited several journalists from the Associated Press, United Press and NEA Service to observe and write about the camp. The Out-of-Door Club, the most exclusive and famous of the nudists colonies of the time, started a nudists movement in America which became extremely popular and lasts today. She continued as the Director of the camp at least through 1933 and was in charge of interviewing all of the guests before allowing them in." "Helen Reitman is more commonly known today as Jan Gay, the name she used for involvement in a study of the gay community called "Sex Variants", conducted by Dr. George W. Henry and sponsored by the "Committee for the Study of Sex Variants, Inc.", which Helen founded. In about 1927 (possibly earlier), Helen met Eleanor Byrnes and the two women became very close and moved in together at 225 W 34th Street, New York City. They traveled together to Mexico that year and on the ship manifest back to New York Eleanor gave her name as Eleanor Byrnes Reitman. By 1930 both women had changed their names to Jan and Zhenya Gay when they took another trip to London. Both women would keep the names through the rest of their lives. The same year Jan and Zhenya wrote an illustrated a children's book called "Pancho and His Burro". It would be the first of over 45 children's books that Zhenya would illustrate during her life. Jan, who was already well identified as a lesbian, may have already visited the Institute for Sex Study with Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin - probably with Zhenya in 1927 or 1930. Or she may have met Magnus during another trip that Jan and Zhenya took in 1931, sailing back from Bremen in September of that year. 

"On Going Naked" 1932 GAY, Jan (SOLD)

Experimental typography from the branding for <n>XYZ Lab</n> by graphic designer <n>Shao Nian</n>, 2019.

Fargo | 90s Cult Classic, Coen Brothers | 1996 original print | vintage Japanese chirashi film poster

Richly textured images printed in black and white. Objects, skin, microscopic entities. - Printed Matter

Alice Zukofsky - Sunset - Printed Matter

<n>Bauhaus</n>-style book cover designed by <n>Eckhard Neumann</n> in 1968.

<n>Architecture of Japan</n> (1953) by <n>Hirotaro Ota</n>, <n>Tanabe Yasushi</n>, and <n>Katsukichi Hattori</n>.

Poster for the <n>Odermatt + Tissi Graphic Design</n> exhibition at <n>Ginza Graphic Gallery</n>, 1998.

Vintage issue 408 of <n>Domus</n> magazine from November 1963, founded by architect <n>Gio Ponti</n>.

Domus Vintage Magazine
Issue 408: November 1963

Domus - November 1963

Posters and Artwork image inspiration on Designspiration

<n>Supplement of Original Art</n> by <n>Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen</n>, a stone alphabet collected over 10 years.

The 2021 photographic book <n>Matière première</n> by industrial designer <n>Maxime-Olivier Dagenais</n>.

Cover for <n>Domus</n> magazine, No. 361, by <n>Bruno Munari</n>, December 1959.

Cover of <n>Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons</n> (1990) by <n>Deyan Sudjic</n>, published by <n>Rizzoli</n>.

Found stone alphabet by <n>Clotilde Olyff</n>, as seen in the publication <n>Lettered</n>.

The 1985 book 'Modern Architect Carlo Scarpa' by <n>Carlo Scarpa</n>, published by Kajima Institute Publishing.

Poster for the 1989 film <n>Violent Cop</n>, directed by and starring <n>Takeshi Kitano</n>. Design by <n>Yasushi Sasakibara</n>.

Pablo Picasso - Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil

<n>Max Bill</n>'s 1969 screenprint, <n>Konstruktion für eine Figur</n>.

<n>Bauhaus 1919-1969</n> exhibition catalog cover designed by <n>Herbert Bayer</n> in 1968.

<n>Anchor in the Landscape</n>, a photobook by <n>Adam Broomberg</n> and <n>Rafael Gonzalez</n>, published by <n>MACK</n>.

The olive tree is a totem of Palestinian identity, culture, and resistance. It supports the livelihoods of more than 100,000 Palestinian families, is a centre of traditions and identities, and has long been a target of destruction and theft. Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been d...

Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez - Anchor in the Landscape - Printed Matter

A spread from the book <n>Ornithology</n> by designers <n>Anne Geene</n> and <n>Arjan de Nooy</n>.

Cover for <n>Le Chant des Morts</n>, a 1948 book of poems by <n>Pierre Reverdy</n> with lithographs by <n>Pablo Picasso</n>.

The Graphic Design Work of Pablo Picasso – PRINT Magazine

Cover for <n>Jung An Tagen</n>'s 2015 album <n>Vielheiten</n>. Artwork by <n>J. Fröhnel</n>.

Business card for Art Director <n>Javier Tortosa</n> of <n>Democràcia Estudio</n> on transparent vegetal paper.

An illustration of the <n>Gestalt principle of similarity</n>.