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In 1979, Eiko Ishioka designed the Japanese posters for Apocalypse Now (art by Haruo Takino). Years later, Coppola chose Ishioka, “a weirdo outsider with no roots in the business,” as costume designer for Dracula, and she won the 1993 Oscar for her stunning, revolutionary work.
Paula Scher’s stellar career began in 1972 in the music industry, designing record covers and ads for CBS and Atlantic Records in New York City. At 25 years old, she became the East Coast art director at CBS Records, where she designed as many as 150 record sleeves per year.
Smyth was also a successful book illustrator. In 1914 she returned to the GSA as Principal of Commercial Art, and focused her career on teaching. She was appointed as the first woman director of the school in 1933, but died of a brain hemorrhage before she could take up the post
Smyth was part of a small group of women artists employed by Cedric Chivers’ bookbinding firm in Bath to design, illuminate, and colour vellum for his precious and unique “Vellucent” bindings. https://t.co/AZSG9rtsKZ
The postcard series was produced around 1902 by the very successful greeting cards and postcards company Raphael Tuck & Son's Ltd. The company printed a few different versions of the postcard designs, which were closely inspired by the art of Alphonse Mucha.
Eva (Evangeline Mary) Daniell (1880-1902) was a talented English artist who died when she was 22 from consumption. Very little is known about her life, and today she is remembered mostly thanks to a series of Art Nouveau postcards based on her work.
Böhm was a Secessionist artist and pioneering educator who encouraged students to freely experiment with paper cuts, stencils and printing. Ver Sacrum featured works by Fanny Zakucka, Minka Podhajská, Adele Bettelheim, Henriette von Pokorny, Frieda Doppler and Leontine Maneles.
The students of Adolf Böhm’s decorative and applied art course at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School for Women and Girls) in Vienna were assigned to illustrate children’s books with stencils. The September 1902 issue of Ver Sacrum was dedicated to their works.
There were sections about women's history and role in society, as well as displays of visual art, literature and drama. A conference hall hosted weekly lectures on feminist topics. This ad for the program of festivities was created by the sculptor and book designer Annie Ermeling
Lowndes was one of the first women to work professionally in stained glass. She co-founded the stained glass studio-workshop Lowndes and Drury in 1897, and the Glass House in Fulham in 1907, which provided the technical facilities for independent artists to work on commissions.