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Designer Desire: Ib Antoni

Montage of Ib Antoni designs

We’ve been publishing our weekly Designer Desire series for about 3 years now, so you’d forgive us for forgetting who we have, and haven’t, featured so far. One of the items that we get contacted about most often is a vintage Ib Antoni poster (pictured in the montage above). It advertises Danish Fortnight at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas; we could have sold it dozens of times over! We’re really surprised that we haven’t researched and shared some of the other fabulous designs that he created.

Ib Antoni (1929-1973) was born in Esbjerg, Denmark. He was commissioned by over 150 international brands and companies such as Carlsberg, UNICEF, Philips, Lurpak, Volvo and Life Magazine.

As well as advertising and illustration, Antoni designed textiles and porcelain for Royal Copenhagen and Bing and Grøndahl. In 1968, he illustrated a sweet, little children’s book, Merry Cherry, a story by Henning Nystad about a starling in love with an unattainable cherry. The cover illustration can be seen in the montage above – second from bottom, on the right.

In 1973 at the age of only 44, he tragically died following an arson attack at Copenhagen’s Hotel Hafnia. His legacy work is being reproduced for sale by his family and a small number of original examples can still be found on Etsy.

Visit the official Ib Antoni Instagram feed to see lots of other examples of his work and a few really interesting contemporaneous photographs of his designs out in the wild!

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Designer Desire: Raymond Savignac

Collection of Raymond Savignac advertising posters | H is for Home

Raymond Savignac (1907-2002) has been referred to as the last of the great French poster artists. Indeed, he has produced advertising designs for classic French brands such as Air France, Cinzano, Citroën, Gitanes, Le Figaro and Perrier. Also, companies including Band Aid, Bic pens, Dunlop, Life Magazine and Pepsi-Cola. He even designed a wine bottle label for the Mouton Rothschild vineyard – you don’t get much more French than that!

You can purchase reproduction prints of his designs from art.com and vintage & brand-new ones on Etsy.

He had a long and prolific career – producing over 600 designs and working well into his 90s.

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Designer Desire: Niklaus Stoecklin

Mosaic of Niklaus Stoecklin artworks | H is for Home

I can’t remember if it was when I was researching fellow Swiss designer, Donald Brun, or something I saw on the 365PosterBlog, but I came across the work of Niklaus Stoecklin (1896–1982).

His graphic design and advertising posters are bright and eye-catching. He brought interest to the everyday mundane – toothpaste, soap, eggs, household cleaners…

I love his studies of butterflies, moths, birds and other natural subjects. However, some of his other, more ‘artistic’, work is uncomfortable, uneasy, disturbing and bordering on the macabre. Perhaps it’s because he was affected by the 1st World War – when he was forced to flee Berlin where he was at art school, and return to Switzerland.

He was an exponent of the German, post-Expressionist Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement along with the likes of Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and others.

His work is in the permanent collections of MOMA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Cooper Hewitt. His painting, Helmgasse, Basel, 1923 sold at Sotheby’s Zurich ‘Swiss Art’ sale in 2006, fetching $110,820 US. Examples of his vintage original posters are for sale anywhere from 500€ to 20,000€. A copy of his E Guete! frying eggs poster (bottom left) sold for $9,375 US at auction in 2014. Prints are more readily affordable from less than a tenner! Try art.co.uk and Etsy.

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Designer Desire: Donald Brun

Collage of Donald Brun graphic designs | H is for Home

Donald Brun (1909-1999) was one of the most influential Swiss graphic designers and poster artists of his time. His work is humorous, fun and eye-catching. He used a palette of bright colours, often depicting stylised animals and inanimate objects taking on human traits.

His images were condensed down to their elemental message; simple, yet thoughtfully and intelligently designed. Take, for example, the smoking cockerel in his Gauloises poster (pictured above, 2nd row, on the right); not only is the bird’s body an angled packet of the cigarettes, his comb is a lick of fire and his legs are composed of matchsticks.

He was commissioned by many big companies such as Swissair, Perrier, Persil and Bata. He created the Pavilion for Chemistry at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958; the event famous for bringing us the Atomium. Unfortunately, I can’t find any images of the building.

He has a huge back catalogue and many of his designs, especially his advertising posters, are readily available. Original vintage examples and new prints can be found on Amazon, art.co.uk, Artnet and eBay.

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