Designer Eva Zeisel

Eva Striker Zeisel (1906-2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Zeisel

Image from: https://www.filzfelt.com/designers/view/eva-zeisel

Born in 1906, Zeisel’s prolific output as a designer began in her late teens and continued until her death in 2011 at age 105, even as her eyesight failed and she had to design by touch. Even more impressive, in her later years she estimated that her designs numbered more than 100,000.

Quote from A Friendly Reminder of Eva Zeisel’s Enduring Excellence
https://www.core77.com/posts/53721/A-Friendly-Reminder-of-Eva-Zeisels-Enduring-Excellence#

Coffee service, 1928-1930 / Earthenware / The British Museum, London, UK

Tea Service [Shapes: Eva Zeisel; decorations: Varvara Petrovna Freze], 1935
Porcelain / Cooper Hewitt, NYC

“Museum” Pattern, c.1942-1943 / Porcelain / Brooklyn Museum, NYC

Hallcraft “Tomorrow’s Classic Caprice”, 1953 / Earthenware with decals
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Chantal Eva Kettle, 2005 / Stainless steel / Image from Dwell Magazine

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Further reading:
https://www.atomic-ranch.com/interior-design/designers-craftsmen/eva-zeisel/
https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/Eva%20Zeisel:%20A%20Lifetime%20of%20Design/J17uojVrorDtmXvr

6Sep2023

Designer Anna Maria Garthwaite

Posted in Designing Women, Women Artists by Christy

Anna Maria Garthwaite (1688-1763) was an English textile designer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Garthwaite

Image from https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/2020/9/23/anna-maria-garthwaite

In general, there is often scant surviving evidence for most textile artisans of the eighteenth century. One important exception, however, is Anna Maria Garthwaite, a designer who was based in London’s fashionable weaving district, Spitalfields. Unlike many women artists of the eighteenth century, Garthwaite was both highly regarded in her lifetime and remains well known today by modern historians who study historic dress and textiles.

Quote from The Minneapolis Institute of Art
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/143568/textile-anna-maria-garthwaite

Design for a woven silk, 1747 / Watercolor on paper / Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
↓ A waistcoat woven from this design is in the Costume Institute of The Met ↓

Waistcoat, 1747 / Silk, wool, metallic / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Silk damask dress, c.1775 / Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC

Design for a woven silk, 1748-1749 / Watercolor on paper / Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

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Further reading:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/anna-maria-garthwaite/
https://womeninspire.co.uk/blog/anna-maria-garthwaite-a-pioneer-in-british-design
https://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2010/05/intrepid-ladies-anna-maria-garthwaite.html

5Sep2023

Autoportrait Day 365~ The Misty Miss Christy

Posted in Self Portraits, Women Artists by Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

The Misty Miss Christy, aka Christy Wolfe (born 1952)

iPhone self-portrait using commercial app filter, 2019

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30Aug2023

Designer Zuzana Licko

Posted in Designing Women, Women Artists by Christy

Zuzana Licko (born 1961) is an American type designer and visual artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Licko

Image from No Web Without Women~
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh computer was introduced, ushering in a new era of digital type design.

That same year, Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko founded Emigre Graphics in San Francisco. Soon, this typeface foundry and its magazine, Emigre, became the late 20th century’s wellspring of experimental digital typography and graphic design.

Quote from the web site Poster House
https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/the-revolution-will-be-digitized-typefaces-from-emigre-fuse/

Emigre digital font catalogue, 1986 / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Emigre 4, The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries, 1986 / Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Mrs Eaves typeface, designed by Zuzana Licko / Emigre digital type foundry, Berkeley, CA

Zuzana Licko’s Ceramic vases / Jacquard Weavings / Terra Cotta Garden Cones Sculptures
These images from https://www.zuzanalicko.com/vases.php
https://ksmallgallery.com/blogs/exhibits/zuzana-licko-9-jacquard-weavings
https://www.wescover.com/p/terra-cotta-garden-cones-sculpture-by-zuzana-licko–PS1NMxFZXO

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Further reading:
https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-zuzana-licko
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-vanderlans-licko-return-to-their-bitmap-roots/

17Aug2023

Designer Edith Head

Posted in Designing Women, Women Artists by Christy

Edith Head (1897-1981) was an American costume designer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Head

Image found on internet

Edith Head was…active in film from 1932 to 1982. She was the head designer at Paramount for many years. She married production designer Wiard Ihnen in 1940. Head was nominated by the Academy 35 times in the costume design category. She received Academy Awards for her work on THE HEIRESS (1949), ALL ABOUT EVE (1950), SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949), A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951), ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953), SABRINA (1954), THE FACTS OF LIFE (1960), and THE STING (1973). She authored two books, “The Dress Doctor” and “How to Dress for Success.”

Quote from The Online Archive of California
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c80k29tm/