From the Netherlands Architecture Institute

From various collections at the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website.


City on Pampus, Megastructure, by H. Klopma and J.B. Bakema, from the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema, drawing, 1964 [link]


Eindhoven city expansion - an expansion model based on a regional concept, J.M. de Casseres, 1930 [link]


Utrecht Music Society, Jupiter Amans, Schipbreuk, PJ C Klaarhamer, 1924 [link]


Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas - Rotterdam map, Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, 1921 [link]


Spring Clothing from Schocken Store, Johan Niegeman, 1926 [link]


Cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, W. la Croix, 1937 [link]


Holland America Line, W. la Croix, no date [link]


Poster for the seventh CIAM congress, Max Huber, 1949 [link]


De Stijl magazine, Theo van Doesburg, 1917 [link]


Contra-construction - Maison Particulière, Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, 1923 [link]


Van stoel tot stad, book, J.B. Bakema, 1964 [link]


Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright,H. Th. Wijdeveld, 1931 [link]


City Hall on the Amstel, Wim Brusse, 1958 [link]


Rietveld, Jan Bons, 1959 [link]


Metal Workers’ Union, W. la Croix, 1927 [link]


Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, Piet Blom, 1965 [link]


Design drawing for name stamp, G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906 [link]

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all images come from the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website [link]

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov Theatre Posters

I came across a worn Russian book of Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov’s theatre posters, called Teatralʹnyĭ plakat N. Akimova. The book was published in Moscow in 1963 and is now out-of-print, but can be found at a few libraries in the US, UK, and Japan. Below are some of my favorites. EDIT - Huge thanks to Ingvar for providing the below translations.


The Labyrinth

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (1901 – 1968) was a "Russian stage designer, director, painter and graphic artist of Ukranian birth. He studied in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) from 1915 to 1919 in an artists' workshop under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vasily Shukhayev. From 1920 to 1922 he worked as a stage designer in Khar'kov (now Kharkiv). In 1923 he returned to Petrograd, where he worked as a book illustrator and stage designer at the Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Theatre of Drama and the Gor'ky Bol'shoy Theatre of Drama; he also worked in Moscow, at the Theatre of the Revolution, the Vakhtangov Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). From 1929 he worked as a director, designing his own productions. He was the Art Director of the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy (1935-49), where the most notable productions he directed and designed were Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1938), Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger and Widow of Valencia (1939) and Yevgeny Shvarts's The Shadow (1946), among others. From 1951 to 1955 Akimov was the artistic director of the Leningrad Soviet Theatre; Shadows (by Saltykov-Shchedrin) and The Case (by Sukhovo-Kobylin) stand out among the productions he directed and designed there. From 1955 to the end of his life he was at the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy as Artistic Director; among his best productions there were Shvarts's An Ordinary Miracle (1956) and The Dragon (1962), and Motley Stories (1960) after Chekhov."-answers.com


The Hunter, 1956


1905


Dictatorship


3 Minute Talk


The Profiteer


Night Shindy


Trees Die Upright


The Suitcase


Seat Nr. 16


The Salesmen of Glory


The Tragic Story of Hamlet the Danish Prince






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brief biography at answers.com [link]
@ worldcat [link]
more posters at Museum of Russian Poster [link]
more of his work at Russian Art & Books [link]
see more from the book at my flickr page [link]

Swiss Museum Posters

All posters are from the Swiss Posters Collection (note the watermark in the bottom-right).


by Claude Kuhn; Natural History Museum of Bern, 1985 (see more by the amazing Claude Kuhn ---> [link] ---> [link])


Reopening Geology, by Claude Kuhn; Planet and Space, Natural History Museum of the Civic Community of Berne, 1991


A Voyage of Discovery, by Claudia Schmauder; Johann Jacobs Museum, 1996


Natural Garden; Natural History Museum of Lucerne, 1990


Taxidermy and other methods of animal conservation; Natural History Museum, Freiburg, 1982


Museum of Geneva, 1975(?) (more Museum of Geneva posters ---> [link])


by Ralph Schraivoge; Museum of Design Zurich, 1991


Archigram 1961-74, by Ralph Schraivogel; Museum of Design Zurich, 1995


1930-1970 Fashion; Museum Bellerive Zurich, 1982


by Ernst Keller; Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1952


Everything in motion, advancement in nature and technology; Nature Museum Lucerne, 2001


Beetles, their colors and shapes; Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Natural History Museum of the civic community of Berne, 1996


Zaire, masks, figurines; Museum of Ethnology, Basel, 1986


Bees, Museum of Natural History, 1982


Wildlife Photography, Wildlife Biology; Natural History Museum of Lucerne, 1982


by C. Cebreros; Museum d'histoire, ville de Genève, 1998


Eskimo Archeology of Alaska; Historical Museum of Bern, 1977

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all posters from the Swiss Posters Collection [link]

Film Poster Paintings from Ghana

In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.

In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies. When the posters were finished they were rolled up and taken on the road (note the heavy damages). The “mobile cinema” began to decline in the mid-nineties due to greater availability of television and video; as a result the painted film posters were substituted for less interesting/artistic posters produced on photocopied paper.

The artistic freedom that these artists were given allowed for the creation of some very interesting and sometimes bizarre posters that, as screenwriter Walter Hill wrote, were quite often “more interesting than the films.”

Most of these posters come from the book Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghana that Will from A Journey Around My Skull linked me to. The rest were found online at the below links.


Cujo (Lewis Teague, 1983)


The Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1991)


Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987)


Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)


Demonic Toys (Peter Manoogian, 1992)


Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson, 1986)


Eaten Alive (Tobe Hooper, 1977)


The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert, 1977)


Sleepwalkers (Mick Garris, 1992)


House Party (Reginald Hudlin, 1990)


Dolly Dearest (Maria Lease, 1991)


Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (James D.R. Hickox, 1995)


The Stolen Bible 2 (Emeka Nwabueze, 2004)


Monster Evil Protact [?]

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Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghana by Ernie Wolfe, Ernie Wolfe III, John Yau, Roy Sieber - worldcat [link] amazon [link]
GhanaMoviePosters.com [link]
Killers of Canvas @ the Dutch Poster Museum [link]
online exhibition at Rene Wanner's Poster Page [link]