BENAH LOVES | Vintage travel posters

The 20s and 30s were the golden age of poster design, a result of the Art Deco movement's preference for elongated typeface, surrealist imagery and hyper-saturated colouring. The Los Angeles Public Library has a great archive of vintage travel posters, from the local (Santa Fe to Seattle) to the far flung, like Japan and Denmark. Discovering these forgotten travel posters is like stepping back in time to a world where travel truly was an adventure, and advertising was an art form.

Vintage Travel Posters | Los Angeles Public Library

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BENAH LOVES | Wes Anderson Palettes

The only thing better than a Wes Anderson movie is a Wes Anderson colour palette. Everything in a Wes Anderson movie is so detailed: every prop and every costume in every shot looks exactly the way it looks for a reason. The colours in his movies are no different: they always highlight or draw attention to something, and always come together on screen in a harmony that it so easy to watch. We stumbled on Wes Anderson Palettes today - a site that draws out the key colours in a Wes Anderson scene and matches it with a line of dialogue - and pored over some of their selections. We loved the blue and pink Mendl's boxes from The Grand Budapest Hotel, Margot lighting her cigarette in The Royal Tenenbaums and Steve about to set off in search of the killer shark in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Wes Anderson Palettes

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ART | Alex Kanevsky

We are drawn to Alex Kanevsky's painting by the sheer emotion that seeps through with every single brush stroke. The colours are entrancing and transparently beautiful, with each subject exposed in solitary contemplation. 

The Russian born, Philadelphia based artist is currently exhibiting at Jcacciola Gallery in NYC

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READ | The Travel Almanac

One of our favourite reads. Simple, beautiful, clean and concise in design; The Travel Almanac is more of a book then magazine as its timeless content deserves to be preserved on the book shelf for future reads. 

Aimed at a generation of sophisticated travellers within the creative community, The Travel Almanac is a NY/Berlin publication available bi-annually. With interviews at its core, Editor Paul Kominek had this to say about the content philosophy in an interview with Stack Magazines - 

"Lets just speak to people that we love - cultural icons who are really interesting - but let's talk to them about subjects they aren't asked about constantly. This is why our interviews with those well-known personalities usually are much more personal and intimate than the average interview. Travelling habits and experiences say a lot about a person and are at the same time very universal and thus make for a great way to break the ice in a conversation."

With the current roll call of cover stars like David Lynch, Matthew Barney, Willem Dafoe, & Harmony Korine is great to see Gia Coppola take center stage for Issue 7. Be sure to pre-order the new issue now for shipping on the 5th of May

The Travel Almanac

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ART | Philographics

Philographics merges the world of philosophy with beautiful design and is the creation of graphic designer Genis Carreras. Originally started as a kickstarter campaign, it explains big ideas with simple, striking shapes and colours.

FINALISM -The assertion that any event is defined by a pre-set final outcome, and that all events leading up to that outcome are shaped by it.

ABSOLUTISM - The position that within a particular school of thought, all different perspectives are either absolutely true or absolutely false

HEDONISM - The ethical position that pleasure is the ultimate and greatest good, and should be the central aim of all decisions made.

RELATIVISM - The assertion that no belief can be said to have absolute truth, having value only within a certain contact or frame of reference

The 95 designs and can be purchased either as a book  or as individual prints.
In the words of Confucius 'Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated'

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