Saturday 17 September 2011

Steph's brief history of: Alexey Brodovich (1898 - 1971)

Brodovich was born in Russia but fled to France in the Revolution of 1920.This Bal Banal poster started his career as a Graphic Designer when he entered it into a competition, beating a drawing by Picasso:
As Paris started to lose its design flair, Brodovich decided to move to America where he would create his most famous works for magazine, Harper's Bazaar:

Hi work emits movement, energy and modernity. He turned blocks of text into elegant and abstract forms:
He assigned cover illustrations to avant-garde artists such as A.M. Cassandre, Herbert Beyer and Salvador Dali.

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