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Kit Twyford obituary

Edit The Guardian 14 Apr 2016
My husband, Kit Twyford, who has died aged 79, was a sculptor and art school lecturer. He had commercial success with one-man exhibitions and also in group shows alongside Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Kevin Armitage and Lynn Chadwick ... From there, he won an Italian government scholarship through the British Council to study at the Brera academy of fine arts in Milan ... Twitter. Meanwhile, his sculpture gained recognition ... ....

Samuel Hunter, authority on 20th-century art and 'profound' mentor, dies (Princeton University)

Edit noodls 01 Aug 2014
His honors and awards include an honorary doctorate from Brandeis in 2001, an Academico degree from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy, in 1994 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1971 ... I like to think that the lively interchange between modernists in the academy and the museum today is a living testimonial to Sam and his contemporaries," Foster said....

Massimo Vignelli obituary

Edit The Guardian 30 May 2014
Italian designer who captured the spirit, if not the geography, of modern New York ... Photograph. Design Museum ... But Beck's diagram is still in use, whereas Vignelli's disappeared after a few years ... He studied briefly at the Brera Academy of Art in Milan and, having worked as a teenage draughtsman in the office of Achille Castiglioni, trained in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan and the University of Venice ... Photograph ... ....

Massimo Vignelli: Prolific Italian designer whose elegant, modernist work became a fixture of day-to-day life ...

Edit The Independent 29 May 2014
Massimo Vignelli was an Italian-born designer whose elegantly simple subway signs, business logos, shopping bags, books, furniture and dishware became reference points of daily life and touchstones in modern design ... But Vignelli's ideas ultimately prevailed ... He studied at the Brera academy of fine arts and the Polytechnic University in Milan, as well as at the University of Venice, before settling in the US ... "Your holiness ... ....

DESIGNER CREATED ICONIC NEW YORK SUBWAY MAP

Edit U~T San Diego 28 May 2014
Massimo Vignelli, a graphic designer whose New York subway map both guided and confounded riders in the 1970s while generations of shoppers carried his “big brown bag” from Bloomingdale’s, has died. He was 83. He died on May 27 at his home in Manhattan following a long illness ... National Park Service brochures, both of which remain in use ... He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and the School of Architecture at the University of Venice....

Massimo Vignelli dies at 83; graphic designer created N.Y. subway map

Edit The Los Angeles Times 28 May 2014
Massimo Vignelli, a graphic designer whose New York subway map both guided and confounded riders in the 1970s while generations of shoppers carried his Bloomingdale's "brown bag," has died. He was 83 ... Caption Gordon Willis Con Keyes / MCT ... He was 82. (Con Keyes / MCT). See more galleries ... He was 79 ... See more galleries ... He was 89 ... 8 ... 0 ... He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and the School of Architecture at the University of Venice....

Massimo Vignelli, celebrated designer whose work included NYC subway map, dies at 83

Edit The Washington Post 28 May 2014
Massimo Vignelli, an Italian-born designer whose elegantly simple subway signs, business logos, shopping bags, books, furniture and dishware became reference points of daily life and touchstones in modern design, died May 27 at his home in New York City. He was 83 ... Mr ... Mr ... (Mr ... He studied at the Brera academy of fine arts and the Polytechnic University in Milan, as well as at the University of Venice, before settling in the United States....

Dunedin showcases world fashion

Edit Stuff 05 Apr 2014
The 120m runway in Dunedin's historic railway station ran Friday night and will run tonight, hosting collections from emerging designer Mahshid Mahdian of the Brera ......

Italian designer takes top award

Edit Stuff 03 Apr 2014
Italian-based Mahshid Mahdian, from Brera Academy in Milan, won the iD Dunedin Fashion Inc's top $10,000 prize with her collection Shadow, inspired by the beauty in the shadows and reflections of Burano Island in Venice ... Judge Francis Hooper said the standard of finalists was amazing ... Mahshid Mahdian, 36, Brera Academy, Italy ... Ad Feedback ... ....

Winning designer's X-factor inspired by Venice

Edit Otago Daily Times 03 Apr 2014
Previous .. Next.  . Italian design has come out on top in this year's iD International Emerging Designer Awards. Teheran-born Mahshid Mahdian (36), of Milan, won the supreme prize at last night's sellout show in the Dunedin Town Hall. •  Emerging designers gallery ... Ms Mahdian studied fashion design at the Brera Academy in Milan and last November showed her collection in the city's Mittelmoda award show ... rosie.manins@odt.co.nz ... ....

Pompeii Made It Through a Volcano, but Can It Survive Vandals?

Edit The Daily Beast 22 Mar 2014
Thieves are chipping away at the remains of archaeological and cultural wonders, removing prieceless artifacts piece by piece. Can Italy stop the ruins from being ruined forever?. One might argue that Pompeii has never been quite the same since the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D ... The week before, a tourist visiting the Brera Academy in Milan broke the leg off a Greco-Roman statue while trying to take a selfie ... D.C. Greens....
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