Showing posts with label California Bach Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California Bach Society. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2016

David Lance Goines on the Poster, 20 th C.

Bach, click for a much larger image
I love this one... Can you see the Book of Kells influence at this poster? Niiiiiiiice (here)
Bach, click for a much larger image 


::from wikipedia res:: Just the text below for the BIO...
David Lance Goines (born May 29, 1945) is an American artist, calligrapher, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, the oldest of eight children. During the 1960s, Goines enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley as a Classics major. While a student in classical literature at the University of California, Berkeley he participated in the Free Speech Movement of late 1964, which led to his expulsion. Though soon re-admitted, he again left the University in 1965, this time to apprentice as a printer in Berkeley. In 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press there. The major output of the press consists of Goines' limited edition poster and calendar art
 




Poster Exhibition, click for a much larger image


Goines first printed this poster for his friend Tom Luddy and the Pacific Film Archive to advertise a showing of the film Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach in 1973. Long after the movie finished playing, Goines changed the text and the poster became a general publicity piece for the San Francisco-based California Bach Society. It is perhaps his most popular poster, going through no less than three printings.

Like many of his late-1960s Bay-area contemporaries, Goines was influenced by the German Jugendstil movement, especially Lucian Bernhard and Ludwig Hohlwein. Unlike most of the psychedelic designers, however, he pared his designs down to only the most relavent elements: a strong central image, limited use of color, and a straightforward message. Anything more he felt was no longer a poster.

Although Goines graphic style is most often described as Arts and Crafts, he draws on a wide range historical styles including Japanese ukio-e woodblocks, Art Nouveau, Vienna Secession and Art Deco. His Bach poster, for example, is influenced by Celtic stonework and the Book of Kells to characterize the composer as the "fifth evangelist." Link to my previous post about the Book of Kells here


Goines Posters, click for a much larger image

Hubbard, click for a much larger image 


What separates Goines from other designers, of course, is that he prints his own work. His posters are all 2-24 solid-color lithographs printed on the same press he learned his trade on in the 1960s. It goes with saying that 4-color reproductions in books or the images presented here hardly do the originals justice.



Napa Valley Wine Auction, click for a much larger image 



No. 167. Napa Valley Wine Auction, 1996
This poster is still available from the California Bach Society. For around 30 USD you not only get an actual Goines-printed poster but help support the Society.