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New Posters

Legendre Rutter — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:16:18 +0000

The Felt & Wire Shop of Mohawk Paper is home to Legendre+Rutter’s poster collection, which is available for sale to the public. For July, we announce six new posters:

The Cow of Mr. Warhol, for il Museo in Erba exhibition, Switzerland
Silver Bullets, a film by Joe Swanberg
Uncle Kent, a film by Joe Swanberg
Metal Crystal, for the release of the Richard Pinhas album release
Fall French Market 2010, for the Lycée Français
Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Series of four posters for “La Mucca di Mr. Warhol”

for the upcoming fall release of “Uncle Kent,” a film by Joe Swanberg

100 Posters in 24 Cities

Legendre Rutter — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:27:59 +0000

On December 10, 2009, the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an exhibition of 100 posters opened in 24 cities around the world. The organizer of this network of exhibitions is a group called “Poster 4 Tomorrow,” who can boast partnerships with Reporters Sans Frontiers, Amnesty International Italy, UNESCO, Council of Europe, and others. The juried competition to create the 100-poster collection drew 1,834 entries from dozens of countries. All 100 posters are available for high res download and free distribution at the poster4tomorrow website.

Selected images from December 10 openings in (from top to bottom): Milan, Paris, Seville, Chonan, La Paz, Derry, Los Angeles, and Montreal

il Museo in Erba Exhibits “Picasso”

Legendre Rutter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:40:46 +0000

There is in Paris, as in many cities in the world, a museum made for children: the Musée en Herbe (Museum in Grass). The first foreign satellite of this museum is in Bellinzona, Switzerland, which offers special exhibitions related to the world of art created for children. il Museo in Erba, whose goal it is to surprise, amaze and educate kids, offers them a space created precisely for their unique “culture of play.” Each quarter, the museum offers an exhibit centered around the work of one famous artist. For the Fall of 2009, il Museo in Erba has created a special children’s exhibit featuring some of the work of Pablo Picasso. The poster designed for this exhibit is a continuation in a series of posters that serve as biographical portraits of the featured artists.

Poster for the Picasso exhibit at il Museo in Erba, by Yann Legendre

Posters designed for previous exhibits at il Museo in Erba: “Gauguin” and “Niki de Saint Phalle.”

Where Have All the (U.S.) Posters Gone?

Legendre Rutter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:58:25 +0000

We can argue all day and night about why the printed poster is disappearing from the visual landscape, but the truth is that posters are still being produced all over the world. Designers everywhere are creating posters that are well-conceived and beautifully crafted, but there is evidence that the poster is simply not taken as seriously in the U.S. as it is in almost every other part of the industrialized world. As evidence, look at the major International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) endorsed poster competitions around the world over the past year. Very few US designers enter these competitions and, for the most part, even fewer win anything.

Two such competitions stand out: the prestigious Toyama International Poster Triennial in Japan and the China International Poster Biennial. At Toyama, of the 4,516 posters submitted for judging from 49 countries, only 52 were from the USA. And of those, only 7 were selected for exhibition at the Toyama Museum of Modern Art (out of 409 exhibited). In China, the numbers were even more stark: of the 178 posters selected from all entries, 106 came from Asia, 66 from Europe, and only 5 came from all of North and South America.

What can we say? We’re trying to do our part to keep the American poster alive on the international design scene. Legendre+Rutter had three finalists chosen for exhibition in Toyama and four of the five US posters selected in China.

Finalists in the Toyama International Poster Triennial: “Cet Obscur Objet du Désir” by Legendre+Rutter and "Imagination" by Yann Legendre

"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Lance Rutter, Toyama Poster Triennial

Finalists in the China International Poster Biennial: "Niki de Sant Phalle" and "Fantasmagoria Fukuda" by Yann Legendre

Finalists in the China International Poster Biennial: "Music Awards Dinner" and "Homage to Mucha" by Lance Rutter