Aug 15, 2021
Norman Ives, typeface as art. More about Ives:ย printmag
1/ย Untitled, 1959. Collage.ย Synthetic polymer on canvas squares. 2/ย Ionic-Reconstruction, 1965. Reconstruction: Red and white, canvas on canvas on masonite, polymer and dray pigment. 3/ย Number 3-L, 1967.ย Synthetic polymer on canvas squaresย 4/ย Reconstruction Eclipse. 1967. Bas-relief, black letter fragments. 5/ย Centaur, 1973. Screenprint.
Ivesโ design and art appeared to be an outlier of the percolating type-as-art movement that may have been popularized by Robert Indianaโs LOVE sculptures, but has since become ubiquitous not just in painting and sculpture but other massive architectural โtype works.โ Steven Heller.
