Soulellis Studio

Last weekend I stayed in an apartment in Berlin with a magnificent library. Thousands of books lining the walls in each room. I started looking closely and realized that there were some real treasures in here, like a Josef Müller-Brockmann designed book from 1960, der Film. ...

Our seventh Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning alumni newsletter, featuring Pantone 814 purple.

Dead trees alert: a Soulellis Studio book, organized chronologically, featuring everything on this site from 2007 until November 2009. 316 pages. Very limited edition. We'll make a few copies available soon, probably on Twitter.

Is anyone looking at Jean-Luc Godard's extraordinary use of typography? These are title cards and other typographic moments from 1961: "A Woman Is a Woman" (Une femme est une femme). Godard edits the graphics like dialogue or music, to connect and disrupt and slice and chop and cut. ...

Soulellis Studio is a design firm specializing in brand identity and communications. This is where we show our work and other things that turn us on. Visit us at 114 West 17 Street, New York City 10011. Follow us on Twitter. Give a call at 212 243 5080. Or send a note to hello@soulellis.com

Richard Saul Wurman and Marc Hodosh are bringing together some of the most brilliant minds in healthcare and well-being next week for a four-day old-school-style TED extravaganza in San Diego. Soulellis Studio did the TEDMED name badges, schedules, speaker booklets, sponsor signage, etc. ...

Massimo Vignelli surprised me last night @ the Type Directors Club Night of the Italians when he proclaimed that "the book is dead, books have reached a ceiling," and that the web is all about the democratization of culture. ...

Nice collaborative effort for these eight LCD information screens at Cornell AAP. They're floating and pivoting and informing in multiple locations throughout AAP.

There's something really wonderful about these Mobil roadmaps (c. 1975). The black typography (some kind of corporate typeface based on the wordmark?), the white space, the use of the pegasus, everything. ...

We've turned a corner. Working with Dean Kent Kleinman has pushed us to revisit our Cornell University Architecture, Art and Planning posters. The mapping of information is like a graphic machine, generating serial works; stepped scales of operation produce difference and variation.

John D. Rockefeller began the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 with a gift of $35 million, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." 48 years later, the Foundation provided a seminal grant ...

It's 1978, and Peter Bradford has just produced his first book. Chair -- The current state of the art, with the who, the why, and the what of it. Pictured is Mary Plumb Blade, born 1913.

The incomparable Karr Graphics in Long Island City printed this beauty, on Mohawk Superfine. Karr is super-professional and their attention to quality and detail is superb (they also printed the MAS piece in the last post). ...