Victoria and Albert Museum

experimenting with a more physical type of theatre. Wanting to reform from the confinements of realistic and naturalistic drama, they attempted to create an exciting and visual theatre that was depicted by design, choreography and physical imagery (Victoria…

member of the Royal Society of Arts in 1979. His work was included in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Israel Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Musée de l’Affiche and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Glaser also taught at the School of Visual Arts at the Cooper Union in New York. In 2004 he won a National Design Award Lifetime Achievement from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and in 2009 he was awarded the National…

World War Two was a traumatic war for many people, not just those fighting on the continent, but also for those on the Homefront. Great Britain also suffered due to the physical bombing of their country. This involvement, of both the British people, and of the British environment, has caused WWII to achieve a prominent place in the culture and memory of the British people. This association is expressed in different ways: from the official remembrance through war memorials and monuments, through…

Tobias Frere-Jones is an American type designer based in New York City. He was born in 1970 to a family who had a rich history with typography. His parents worked as copywriters and print buyers, so he was always surrounded with various letterforms. Although he was enthusiastic about fine arts and photography during his early teenage years, his daily interactions with written text helped him understand the power of type and influenced him to enter Rhode Island School of Design. After receiving…

described him as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific". Some of his corporate work that is known to many is the logo for Reuters in 1965, comprising of 84 dots. His "V&A" logo for Victoria and Albert…

and an M.F.A. Uelsmann has numerous fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and the other a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. In addition, he has had over 100 individual shows and has permanent collections in many museums around the world. Uelsmann says his main influences come from his teachers Beaumont Newhall, Minor White, Ralph Hattersley and his classmates Bruce Davidson, Pete Turner, Carl Chiarenza and Peter Bunnell. Lastly, in an interview with Black &…

How has women’s clothes represented their role in the Victorian society? While contemporary weddings are often a symbol of love and commitment between the bride and the groom, for the history of the past, love actually played a very minor role in the majority of matrimonies that took place. In the Victorian era, marriage was not as romanticized or fairy tale-like as depicted in many novels of the time, it were seen as two families joining together forming a business deal in a beneficial…

Before the war, his garments was dreamed by the doomed heroines of Remarque's novels, after the war he dressed the richest women of the Old and New Worlds. At the end of May 2017, for the first time in the UK, the London Museum of Victoria and Albert opened a large-scale exhibition - a retrospective of the heritage of the Spanish couturier: “Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.’. The project is timed to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first studio Balenciaga in Spanish San Sebastian and the…

Botolph’s Club Foundation Award in 1995, the DeCordova Museum Rappaport Prize in 2006, an Alturas Foundation Grants to photograph the landscape of West Texas. He was a recipient of the Infinity Award in Art, Intel Center of Photography in 2011. His photographic illustration of “A Camera in a Room”, was published…

couture tailored clothes. ‘His angular mini-dresses and trouser suits, often produced in what became known as a 'Space Age' white-and-silver colour scheme, were worn with astronaut-style accessories like flat boots, goggles and helmets.’ (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2018). These sorts of designs were followed by other designers such as Pierre Cardin, Emanuel Ungaro and Yves Saint Laurent. The bold colours, short skirts, and miniskirts were focused on the younger generation. This style didn’t…