Michael C. Place- Helvetica designer

Mystyle , August 2008, Michael C. Place

His place in history is "here and now." He is the forefront of designers today. His work is simple, yet diverse and the mesh of the two creates a bold fascinating feeling, visually and internally.
His circles project a sense of unity, a type of worldly unity that permeates transcontinental.
His work leaves me speechless, inspired and driven to create. What an amazing feeling I am with.

Under Agha's direction, Vanity Fair introduced the first double-page spread in 1930















1930, Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Art Deco

This is not his work but under his direction. He was able to go full circle from working with Vanity Fair in Berlin to working with Vanity Fair in America.. He brought art to the world in ways that no one had ever imagined, double spread pages in full color...in 1930!!!! When you think back to works created in the 50's we imagine spreads nowhere near this caliber, yet here it is before your eyes, double spread and in full color. He brought culture and art to our fingertips, we can touch and feel the pages and delivered it to our door. Today we have lost all sight of tasteful and well produced magazines, they are still out there but you must look beyond the grocery store shelves....

Movie Poster before 1950

The Third Man, 1949

Creator Unknown


This poster creates many different sensations. The most obvious appears to be the texture, you can feel the rough, scratched surface as well as the use of black, white and gray to emphasize the dark mysteriousness of the film.

Saul Bass Movie Poster

Love in the Afternoon, 1957

Poster artwork by Saul Bass

Fascinating how simple, is so ingenious! The shade being pulled down give direction and draws the eye downward where one can see the depth of the words and the hand in the poster.

Post-Modern Movie Poster

The Towering Inferno, 1974

Poster design by Diener-Hauser
Poster artwork by John Berkey

The composition of this movie poster manifests tension, depth and direction. You see the look on the faces and the situation create the tension as we are able to look down upon the burning building as if we are falling down on this The Towering Inferno.

Movie Poster-This millineum

A Good Woman, 2005


Poster design by Art Machine, A Trailer Park Company

We have become desensitized by entertainment and medias use of photoshop programs and lost the true essence of what our imaginations can create. This poster speaks volumes, the contrasts of color create fluent unity and flow.