Qué caso tiene

Another big thanks to for Borr who identified Rogelio Naranjo as the artist of much of the work in the last post on Nexos magazine. I went searching for more of Rogelio Naranjo's work and found scans of his 1982 book Qué caso tiene at La Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo's site, where Naranjo studied. Here are some favorites:
































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Many more (including some great caricatures) at la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo [link]
Rogelio Naranjo at Wikipedia (en español) [link]
Qué caso tiene at WorldCat [link] at OpenLibrary [link]

La revista Nexos

Nexos is a monthly cultural magazine published in Mexico City. The magazine was started in 1978, and is not related to the South American Nexos Magazine published by American Airlines. Following are some visual works from the first several issues that I found. Unfortunately, I have no information on the artists. (And once again, thank you to my beautiful graduating gf for the below translations.)

EDIT: huge thanks to Borr for identifying Rogelio Naranjo as the artist of many of the below illustrations.

"It was founded in 1978 by historian Enrique Florescano, with the idea of presenting segments of society, science, and literature in a publication that would think about and consider public life, and criticize the society and politics of Mexico. Since then, Nexus has followed the fundamental transformation of the country. During thirty years, its pages have fostered intellectual and academic debate, documenting the precariousness of the state of the Right, economic stagnation, and poverty and inequities, among other obstacles of change. As a magazine that advocates ideological diversity, Nexos has encouraged and stimulated democratic reform which makes us think that the Mexico of 1978 may have occurred in another country." -translated from the Nexos Group Facebook page


No. 1, Jan 1978 Detail, possibly by George Grosz (?) (thanks to P-E Fronning)


No. 1, Jan 1978

"Nexus desires to be what its name announces: a place of intersection and connections, a point of links for experiences and disciplines that specialization tends to segregate, and even oppose. It aspires to be a forum where problems of science and technology, economic and social research, literary essays, and historical and contemporary politics are expressed." -from Issue number 1, January 1978.


No. 2, Feb 1978 Detail


No. 2, Feb 1978, by Rogelio Naranjo


No. 4, April 1978


No. 6, June 1978


by Rogelio Naranjo


by Rogelio Naranjo




by Rogelio Naranjo


"I will only judge on personality and talent," by Rogelio Naranjo






by Rogelio Naranjo



Nexos website [link]
Image gallery of recent issues on their website [link]
Nexos Facebook group page [link]
more works are posted on my flickr page [link]

Selections from the Intl. Exhibition of Calligraphy

There are already a few posts about from this incredible exhibition, including one by the great BibliOdyssey, but I couldn't help but post a few more.


Ruslan Naiden - Signs list #1 (Paper, ink, pen, 46x46 cm, 1994)


Georgy Kozubov - Expromt (Paper, ink, worn brush, pointed pen, 1989)


Georgy Kozubov - Schriftomahia (Digital copy. Original- blotting paper for lithography, watercolor, Сhinese ink, brush, metal pen, 56x46 cm, 1986)


Karin Bauer - We will find us (Wir werden uns finden) (Ink on handmade paper, 29x21 cm, 2008)


Olga Varlamova - From the choir of the Borovichsky Saint-Spirit cloister (Book sign. Color paper, ink, pointed nib, 8.9x9.05 cm, 2009)


Abdul Baki Abu Bakar - The powerful (Paper & Holbein ink, Bamboo, 92x60 cm, 2008)


Claudio Gil - et&et (Sketchbook spread. Felt marker, 33x23cm, 2006)


Zarkh Ekaterina - Beyond the circle bounds II (Poem "My city strewed with gold in autumn") (Paper, ink, pen, 42x60 cm, 2003)


Vera Evstafieva - Literature map of the St. Petersburg (for the Russia! journal) (Lettering, Adobe Photoshop, 43х28 cm, 2008)


Yury Toreev - "The snow is falling, thus drawing veil up to horizon..." (Arttext after the verse by Nakhakara Tuya) (Paper, pen, ink, 84x84 cm, 2008)


Yury Toreev - Coming (Writing on glass with a rubber brush upon wet gouache, photoprint from glass by a contact method, scanning, printer, 84x68 cm, 2003)


Pavel Semchenko - Sacred melody (Graphic, 61x61 cm)
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All images from the International Exhibition of Calligraphy's website [link]
Russia's National Union of Calligraphers [link]
BibliOdyssey's post from the same exhibition [link]
More calligraphy at BibliOdyssey [link]
A post on the exhibition at 79 Ideas [link]
The Blog Notes: A Calligraphic Journal [link]
Many great calligraphy links at Omniglot [link]


Shahnawaz Alam Ahmed - Poetry by Meer Taqi Meer, a renown poet of India (Paper, self made ink and bamboo pen, 21х29.7 cm, 2009)

Alvin Lustig miscellany

Beverly Hills High School Commencement, 1942


Philately in Europe brochure, 1939


Incantation, Textile Design, 1947 [via] (see it in fabric form at Alki1's flickr ---> [link])


Christmas card, 1940


Typography Manual, Art Teacher's Association of LA, 1941 [via]


Self-Promotion broadside, 1941


Twenty-Third Commencement - Beverly Hills High School, 1940


Twenty-Fifth Commencement - Beverly Hills High School, 1942


Sheet with typographic shapes, 1939


Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950


Joints for special install, at the Alvin Lustig exhibition at the A-D Gallery, 1949


Alvin Lustig's Office(?), 1951


Alvin Lustig, 1945
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The fantastic Alvin Lustig website [link]
The Alvin & Elaine Lustig Design flickr pool [link]
Articles & Texticles has a great entry on Mr. Lustig, from which several of the above images are from [link]
More of Lustig's works at the Smithsonian's collection [link]
Great bio and more works at AIGA [link]
More works at Dr. Leslie's project [link]
Books on/of Alvin Lustig's works at worldcat [link]