i do what the walls tell me to do. —barbara stauffacher solomon
Interior of OfD restaurant, Sweden. The elongated black C is a mural by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Image via OfD.
i do what the walls tell me to do. —barbara stauffacher solomon
Interior of OfD restaurant, Sweden. The elongated black C is a mural by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Image via OfD.
Scanlan’s Monthly Magazine, volume 1, № 2, April 1970.
Scanlan’s Monthly Magazine, volume 1, № 5, July 1970.
Scanlan’s Monthly Magazine, volume 1, № 6, August 1970.
Scanlan’s Monthly Magazine, volume 1, № 8, September 1971.
At the beginning of the 1970’s, Barbara became an art director at Scanlan’s Monthly magazine, a controversial and short-lived San Francisco counter-culture publication. It was strongly anti-Nixonian and shut down after only eight issues after being boycotted by printers and undergoing an FBI investigation for “un-American” activities. It was one of several publications to feature Hunter Thompson’s early “gonzo” journalism, most notably his famous article, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.” Design-wise, Scanlan’s Monthly featured spacious, Swiss-influenced layouts with lots of Helvetica, shockingly different from most other left-wing publications of the day.
i don’t keep things. i enjoy tossing things i don’t need. cleaning out the house, cleaning out my mind. my swiss training I suppose. —barbara stauffacher solomon
Oceanic Properties: Sea Ranch, logo by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. Image from Joseph Esherick Collection. © Regents of the University of California, held by the Environmental Design Archives.
From the 1980’s onwards, Barbara was mostly involved in landscape architecture. She published the book Green Architecture: Notes on the Common Ground in 1982, and a couple years later oversaw identity development for Ulrich Franzen’s Hunter College expansion in New York, including its signature skywalks. She also created the Ribbon of Light installation at the Embarcadero Promenade in San Francisco in 1991.
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