I really love these simple yet stunning experimental posters from Australian graphic design studio Motherbird. Wish I could get one for my living room!

Like Ellie, I’m feeling the geometry love today.  Maybe it was all those tasty rhombi…

I was originally going to write about Andy Gilmore, who is a damn talented illustrator with a flair for geometry and color.  But when I was doing my research, I started thinking about another artist who not only had his shapes and colors in check, but also was one of the first and foremost artists of the Color Field post-war abstraction movement, Kenneth Noland.

Unfortunately, in doing some research on Noland, I found that he just recently passed away last month in Maine at the age of 85 of cancer.  This news was especially shocking to me as I have a very close relationship with Bill Noland, Kenneth’s son, who was my absolute favorite Visual Arts professor in college and to this day I remain close with and work with; he’s truly one of my most influential mentors of my arts/design career (and certainly very talented photographer, sculpturist, and video artist in his own right).

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