Véronique Vienne


The Self-Taught Design Critic. [...]

Véronique Vienne was a magazine art director in the USA when she began to write to better analyze and understand the work of the graphic designers, illustrators and photographers who collaborated with her.

Today she writes books and conducts workshops on design criticism as a creative tool.

 

Voir, regarder, apprécier : tout un programme. [...]

Véronique Vienne a été directrice artistique aux USA avant de commencer a écrire pour mieux comprendre ce que faisaient les graphistes, illustrateurs et photographes avec qui elle collaborait.

Aujourd’hui elle écrit des livres et anime des sessions de travail sur la critique du design graphique comme outil de création.


John Rombola: Eclectic Eccentric

Chronicle Books (2009)


Rediscovered by a new generation of art and design lovers, John Rombola’s rambunctious, spirited work is gathered here in this first-ever comprehensive monograph of his work.

His drawings leaped from the pages of the numerous magazines that first featured them in the early 1960s. Lithe, loose, and in perpetual motion, they are today reminiscent of the work of Saul Steinberg, Ben Shahn, and early Warhol, with whom Rombola shared the mischievousness of Pop Art and the exhilaration of the Sixties counterculture.


1/11 - We often mistake eccentrics for originals... Introduction by Veronique Vienne

1/11 - We often mistake eccentrics for originals... Introduction by Veronique Vienne

2/11 - Spaceship, 1967

2/11 - Spaceship, 1967

3/11 - Sitting Woman, 1967

3/11 - Sitting Woman, 1967

4/11 - Suicide, 1966

4/11 - Suicide, 1966

5/11 - ladies who lunch, 1968

5/11 - ladies who lunch, 1968

6/11 - Carnival Headddresses, 1968

6/11 - Carnival Headddresses, 1968

7/11 - Big Lady, 1963

7/11 - Big Lady, 1963

8/11 - Pushing Button, 1967

8/11 - Pushing Button, 1967

9/11 - Warplane Takeoff, 1972

9/11 - Warplane Takeoff, 1972

10/11 - Spaceship in Color, 1972

10/11 - Spaceship in Color, 1972

11/11 Cover of Holiday magazine, 1968

11/11 Cover of Holiday magazine, 1968