Design Pioneer: Swiss-Italian style


 LORA LAMM
B. 1928   
Switzerland

Graphic designer  


For, Maria Carluccio  


ABOUT 
Lora Lamm 
B. 1928   
Switzerland

Graphic designer  
Lora Lamm stud­ied graphic de­sign from 1946 to 1951 under in­struc­tors in­clud­ing Jo­hannes Itten, Ernst Keller and Ernst Gubler at the School of Arts and Crafts in Zurich. With her stud­ies com­plete and a few ini­tial ap­point­ments be­hind her, she was drawn to Milan, a city flour­ish­ing in the post-war eco­nomic boom. She started out at Stu­dio Bog­geri, where other well-re­garded Swiss de­sign­ers also worked, be­fore mov­ing to Panet­tone Motta Mi­lano as a pack­ag­ing de­signer. In 1954, on the rec­om­men­da­tion of the Swiss graphic de­signer Max Huber, she switched to the ad­ver­tis­ing de­part­ment of the cel­e­brated Mi­lanese de­part­ment store La Ri­nascente, stand­ing in shortly there­after for the chief de­signer with re­spon­si­bil­ity for de­sign and pro­duc­tion of the in-house mag­a­zine Cronache. She rapidly im­posed her own de­sign vi­sions and at­tracted a new fe­male clien­tele to La Ri­nascente. With her ex­per­i­men­tal use of pho­tog­ra­phy, il­lus­tra­tion and ty­pog­ra­phy - in­spired partly by ex­am­ples of graphic de­sign at in­ter­na­tional de­part­ment stores in New York and Tokyo - she de­fines the im­agery of the fash­ion world to this day. From 1958 on­wards, Lamm worked free­lance for La Ri­nascente and the as­so­ci­ated de­part­ment store Upim. This en­abled her to con­tinue work­ing in­de­pen­dently for other clients such as Pirelli, Eliz­a­beth Arden, Niggi and Latte Mi­lano. Lamm re­turned to Zurich in 1963, join­ing the ad­ver­tis­ing agency Frank C. Thiess­ing as a part­ner shortly af­ter­wards.
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Picasso Ceramics
The Story Behind










ABOUT
Pablo Picasso ceramics 

At the end of the 1940s, Picasso started creating ceramic works. At the time, he spent his summers on the Cote d’Azur in the South of France. Following earlier trips to the Riviera, where he was inspired by the clarity of the light and the bright Mediterranean colors, the artist visited Vallauris for the annual pottery exhibition in 1946. Impressed by the quality of the Madoura works, he was introduced to the owners, Suzanne and Georges Ramié, who welcomed him into their workshop, and gave him access to all the tools and resources he needed to express his creativity with ceramics. In exchange, the Ramié family would produce and sell his ceramic work. This collaboration with the local ceramicists spanned 25 years.

Picasso went on to create clay pieces throughout the last years of his life. He initially found that working with clay was a relaxing summer respite from the more strenuous demands of painting. He began with simple utilitarian objects, such as plates and bowls. He then proceeded to create more ambitious forms, such as pitchers and vases, where the handles became facial or anatomical parts of the animal depicted. The subjects are very creative and playful, and include Greek mythological figures, animal shapes, such as owls and fishes, corrida scenes, and face motifs, among others.

This experience with clay was also a success for Picasso’s personal life, as he met Jacqueline Roque at the Madoura factory in 1953, who would become his second wife in 1961.

Special Thanks to ARTNET NEWS for the Picasso source information.





















































 YOU JUST SAW THE #BLINGTASTIC WORKS OF PABLO PICASSO.