Apologies, dear followers, about the several month’s break in blogging. We have been busy creating new projects, including a few apps, the long awaited On Stage (scenography with a way to explore a book of your choice) and our brand new Arts & Issues series, which looks at…erm…the arts and issues! […]
Above: The Birds of America, Plate 311, American White Pelican, 1824–38 Running until next Spring at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is a show of the most famous bird illustrations of all time, the work of John James Audubon (1785-1851). We might know of him today in our overly-commercial world as […]
Boston is my favourite city. So the tragedies of recent months have hit home in the GDP headquarters. However, what has been refreshing and indeed heart-warming has been the response of the people of Boston itself and the wider world. Such kindnesses have been shown privately and institutionally, not least […]
E. & A. Mele & Co., fashion, latest merchandise, Naples, from a series advertising Mele department store, Aleardo Villa (Italian, 1865–1906) Publisher: Officine G. Ricordi & Company, Milan, Italy, about 1900, Color lithograph on card stock Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Promised gift of Leonard A. Lauder Courtesy Museum of Fine […]
Until 3rd February 2013 you can go to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, to have the winter blues blasted away in no uncertain terms by the uncompromising, super-heated photographs of Mario Testino. The exhibition is subtitled “In Your Face” and that is an exact description of the way that Testino […]
the graphic design project 