DETROIT — Remember the last time you called Siri into action, and instantly large, Venus of Willendorf-like figures rotated gracefully around with graphic, black-and-white mobiles, attempting to win a dance by signaling them with flashlights? No? That’s because artist Gordon Pask’s 1968 vision, “The Colloquy of Mobiles,” did not turn […]
The conversations around “Mathematica: A World of Numbers … and Beyond” the newest permanent installation at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, initially began in 2008 between the museum and the office of influential Mid-century modern designers Charles and Ray Eames, and gained momentum in the summer of 2014. […]
DEARBORN, Mich. — To say that graphic designers are obsessed with fonts would be a very true statement, but it would also be a little bit like saying architects are obsessed with walls, windows, and roofs. Fonts are the mechanism that gives form to printed language, and their impact is […]