San Francisco is not big , but it does contain battalion . Though many have leave their hearts in the seven - by - seven mi spot at the cranky - top of this Pacific Ocean - lined peninsula , each and every loyal local and on - the - route vagrant who ’s made his room through the beautiful Bay Area hub mould a highly personal take on the stead .
InsideOutis an upcoming exhibition curated by the metropolis ’s chapter of the AIGA , which has rounded up 100 outside creatives to visually express their wide - set out perspectives . The event boasts an impressive line of descent - up of top - nick name in graphic intent , photography , illustration , and typography , spanning the globe from California ( obviously ) all the way ‘ round to Australia and Sweden . pair with the seemingly eternal SF literary landmarks from thisinteractive map , it ’s enough to make even the most fickle heart beau with love for this world capital letter of unearthly .
https://gizmodo.com/an-interactive-map-of-san-franciscos-many-literary-lan-1442243978
Each of the works will be auction off at a gala on November 12th to gain the AIGA ’s ongoing Department of Education and outreach efforts . For those who ca n’t make it , we ’ve picked some of our faves below ; but if you ’re going , be certain to wear someflowers in your pilus .
Harvey Milk, Bullhorn by Jeremy Matthews & Brett Wickens, Ammunition (San Francisco)
“ Harvey Milk was an iconic and pivotal physique in San Francisco politics . We vivify his notable loud hailer as an evidential artifact constitute the voice of reformist change . ”
Zalophus Californianus by Michael C. Place, Build (United Kingdom)
“ I thought it was only us mad English and our dogs that go out in the noon sun ? Nope . Count in Zalophus californianus ( California Sea Lion to you & I ) as well , the sight of them ( and smell ) remains with me to this day . This piece was designed in their honour . ”
SF Muni Fast Pass, 1974–2011 by Tom Crabtree, Manual (San Francisco)
“ In San Francisco , only ‘ insiders ’ ( ie . mass who survive here ) would ever have own a Muni monthly Fast Pass , so I thought this was an appropriate way to communicate something ‘ insider ’ about the city . The SF Muni Fast Pass was an absolutely beautiful spell of useful purpose . Many people ( everyday people , not just interior designer ) keep and collected them for years , for no other reason than they were beautiful , eclectic , and coloured — a picayune like the city itself . ”
Summer in San Francisco by Rob Duncan, Mucho (San Francisco)
“ To me San Francisco is all about the fog , and the way of life it wraps itself around the landscape painting , natural and humans - made . I wanted to limn one of the city ’s most iconic landmarks in the simple elbow room I could cerebrate of . A setting that occupant and tourists in the summer are very familiar with . ”
Paula Scher, Pentagram (New York)
“ For me San Fran is a mix of the old hippie - Fillmore - flower - child- peace drift against Gap , Levis and silicon valley and foodies . It ’s a bizarre mix . ”
Peter Saville (United Kingdom)
“ One of the ways I think of San Francisco is as the 1970s art capital of sexuality videos . This image is resonant of that geological era , which made a fundamental impression on me in my early 20s . ”
The San Andreas Fault by Stuart Youngs, Paul Felton, Amie Herriot, Hannah Strickland & Cat Cooke, Purpose (United Kingdom)
“ Our earliest recollection of San Francisco stems from the geography classroom – exploring earthquakes and the World ’s fault lines ; the most famous being the San Andreas Fault . We try out with the fragility of a city on a fault line and produced a two leaved card . The top sheet being torn in half through middle of the typography , to give away the geological fault occupation track down through San Fran . ”
Rebecca Sutherland (United Kingdom)
“ I want to show the rich arras of San Francisco in one image . I came up with compartmentalising the area with pixels , by using paper and mucilage instead of the computer . ”
Richard Smith, Sullivan NYC (New York)
“ My feelings about San Francisco are well extract through my choice of typeface . Arial . ”
16:45 by Thomas Williams, Process Journal, Hunt&Co. (South Yarra, Australia)
“ title 16:45 , the poster represent the travel time and route ( by breeze ) from Melbourne to San Francisco . A typographical approach has been take by re - interpreting the universal airport flip board signage to represent the departing location , the mandatory stopover and destination . The total metre spent in the air has then been overprinted in an orange - Red River inspired by the iconic Golden Gate Bridge . ”
David Parks & Jordan Stokes, Maud (Redfern, Australia)
Everything Type Company (Brooklyn, NY)
MacFadden & Thorpe (San Francisco)
“ In our office we have a poster from Experimental Jetset that depicts a field of bricks and was produce for an exhibition on the Amsterdam counterculture movement , Provo . We wanted to respond to this bill with something native to SF — the distinguishable domed tile establish in some MUNI Stations of the Cross downtown . We go down and measure out them and then get the tiles and grouting at 100 % scale of measurement . ”
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