Sven Markelius, textile design Pythagoras, 1953. NKs Textilkammare, Sweden. Via Jacksons.se. The architect Markelius met Gropius on visiting the bauhaus in 1927 and was highly impressed by the ideas of modernism.
Sven Markelius, textile design Pythagoras, 1953. NKs Textilkammare, Sweden. Via Jacksons.se. The architect Markelius met Gropius on visiting the bauhaus in 1927 and was highly impressed by the ideas of modernism.
Julio Le Parc, acrylic on canvas, 1959. via
Yoruba shawl cloth from the 1950s. Original source page is archived but at the wrong date here.
Marianne Richter, Rubirosa carpet, 1958. Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB, Sweden. Via Wright
Design 102 textile design by Frank Lloyd Wright, produced by F Schumacher & Co in 1957.
The textile graphics of Miguel Covarrubias, an exhibition at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca, 2013. Thanks to Geraldine Juárez for the catalog.
Weather Teletype Code, 1957.
Weather information was typed on a teletype machine that produced a perforated tape coded with the data, forecast or warning. This tape could then be used on one or more teletype circuits to distribute the information. The image below displays the punchtape code. Many meteorologists and communicators could read this code directly from the tape.
Josua by Ann-Mari Forsberg, 1958
Illustration by Frere Amer in Transformation, Issue 3, 1952. via