A Voyage of Discovery is a series of prodigiously inventive landscapes in words and exquisite pictures.
The wildly inventive Midlands landscape poet won prizes for this brilliant collection.
Fittingly, By The People: Designing A Better America, on view at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, is a unique exhibition that mines the American cultural landscape for inventive, resourceful, and unconventional design ideas that address issues faced by underrepresented and underfunded communities.
Fittingly, By The People: Designing A Better America, on view at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, is a unique exhibition that mines the American cultural landscape for inventive, resourceful, and unconventional design ideas that address issues faced by underrepresented and underfunded communities.
Since the late 19th century, the people of the valley have obliged visitors with ever more inventive ways to experience the landscape.
Franich praised the series' "consistently inventive" plotlines and its "vivid landscape", as well as its continued maturation.
From the 1950s onwards, he modernised the landscape through his brilliantly inventive posters, visual identities for public companies and institutions, and his book design for Penguin and Phaidon.
His prose – detailed, exotic, resonant of feelings, sounds and fragrances – soared well above the requirements of the genre; he described alien landscapes with bizarre and inventive energy in language that was ambitious, wordy, sometimes lurid, always bold.
Other works that offer a glimpse at flower arrangements, portraits and country landscapes also are consistently inventive and powerfully dramatic.
