Visited MoMA QNS this afternoon for a special viewing of their poster collection.

How lucky am I?

The building looks a bit like a prison cell from the outside, (Got off the 7 train at 33rd/Rawson Street and circled the big blue structure around the entire block before finding the actual security monitored door. There were several doors outside without handles on them and I was thoroughly confused!) but inside… Inside is a wonderland of everything design. Everything that I love. Whatever’s not on show at the Midtown location is stored here, like shelves and shelves of just different kinds of chairs wrapped in plastic. (Did I ever mention that I had to write a formal analysis about a chair last year? Yeah. So now I kind of have a thing for chairs. I’m really good at distinguishing Eameses, Wrights, Starks… Oh and also Bauhaus furniture. Great skill set to have, no? I may one day include this in my resumé.) Amazing. Too bad no pictures were allowed, or else I’d definitely show y’all.

Saw lots of great posters from the 50s. We even got to check out a few things from the late 19th century. From Swiss grid car safety posters, to Japanese Kabuki posters, to Dutch posters questioning what it means to be. Really!

An overwhelming feeling of reverence and admiration for the past greats and also the current maestros. Josef Müller-Brockmann, Pablo Picasso, Paula Scher… James Victoire, Stefan Sagmeister…

What a crazy, crazy day.