“We will organize wines according to the sensations they create in our very depths, beyond the limits of the soma, far into the infinite reaches of our soul,” states the manifesto for a guide like no other. While Dalí only contributed some 140 illustrations and no text, his concept for the book “The Wines of Gala” is executed successfully: encouraging readers to approach wine personally …
The 1920s and ’30s were a period unlike any other in the Soviet Union—especially if you were a Russian artist making posters for the film. This collection of 250 posters shows radical experiments in graphic design, just before the rise of Stalinism (and the resulting crackdown on creativity). The text is in English, French and German; but the startling images that play with perspective, proportion, …
Update 24 February 2017: tragically, it’s been reported that Ren Hang has passed away aged just 29 years old. Shooting on film, photographer Ren Hang captures his friends in trees and rivers in the woods, in his apartment and on the roofs of buildings in Beijing, all providing an escape from the imposing world around him and breaking from a pervasive Chinese sentiment of sexual …
