Futuro “Flying Saucer” Poster just landed on the Futuroworld’s out-of-this world website

“The Futuro House” is the best website for all things Futuro! The Futuro, a colorful Flying Saucer shaped, house was the brain child of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen.

First used as a ski cabin, the UFO shaped house would go on to fame as a sci-fi icon of the 60’s. Since the ellipse shaped structure is only 26 feet across, it could be transported on a flatbed truck or hoisted into place with a helicopter.

I am thrilled to have “The Futuro House” website post my space-age inspired poster. Check out the utopian universe for the Futuro House at www.thefuturohouse.com or on Instagram @thefuturohouse.

"Frederic Goudy, William Morris and the Kelmscott/Goudy Press" Park Ridge Public Library - Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

In celebration of the 115th Anniversary of the legendary Village Press founded by Frederic Goudy in Park Ridge in 1903, Park Ridge artist Rex Parker will present an original, illustrated program on “Frederic Goudy, William Morris and the Kelmscott/ Goudy Press.”

The Kelmscott/Goudy press, was named for it’s first owner William Morris, pioneer of the British Arts and Crafts Movement and founder of the Kelmscott Press then later American type designer Frederic Goudy of the Village Press. This famous iron hand press, Albion no. 6551, was manufactured by Hopkinson & Cope, London in 1891. William Morris used the press to print the magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer. The Albion hand press came to the America in 1924, when it was bought by “Frederic Goudy: The Titan of Type” in 1924.

The program starts on Tuesday, May 7th at 7 P.M. at the Park Ridge Public Library. The Library is located at 20 South Prospect Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois and is just a few steps from the uptown Metra station - Union Pacific/Northwest line. This event is free to the public: you can reserve a seat by calling 847-825-3123 or by using the button below.

University of Houston Moores School of Music adds John Alden Carpenter posters to its Special Collections

The Moores School of Music at University of Houston added two posters by the artist Rex Parker of the jazz-age classical composer John Alden Carpenter. The artwork is earmarked for the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections.

“I am so pleased these posters are a part of the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections,” said Parker. Professor Howard Pollack’s biography of Carpenter, Skyscraper Lullaby: The Life and Music of John Alden Carpenter was an inspiration to Parker in creating these dynamic Art Deco posters.

Designed for the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra, posters celebrating composer John Alden Carpenter mirror his lofty, buoyant energy. Hailed by longtime New York Symphony Orchestra conductor Walter Damrosch as “the most American of our composers,” Carpenter was a Park Ridge native; son of the municipality’s first mayor, George Carpenter; and related to the Aldens of Early American fame.

Carpenter’s whimsical suite, Adventures in a Perambulator was on the docket for Walt Disney’s planned sequel to Fantasia. His innovative ballet, Skyscrapers, which enjoyed success in New York and Munich, was the only American work commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes.

The Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum adds artist Rex Parker’s Deco-inspired “Gatsby” poster to its collection

Dr. Alaina Doten, Curator of The Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama has added artist Rex Parker’s Deco-inspired “Karen Black: Gatsby” poster to its collection. The museum celebrates the lives, the legacies and glittering romance of the Roaring 1920s iconic couple F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald.

“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is my favotie novel,” said Parker — this bold poster captures the tragic, foreshadowed destiny of Myrtle Wilson in the Jazz Age classic, The Great Gastby; a role for which Park Ridge native Karen Black won her second Golden Globe Award.

P22 Type Foundry posts the “Goudy Type A to Z” poster series on Pinterest

Checkout the P22 Type Foundry posts on Pinterest of the Goudy “Type A to Z” poster series at Rex Parker | P22 Font Specimens.

P22 Type Foundry’s “Goudy Collection” of typefaces was my primary source of type I used to design this series of posters for the 115th Anniversary of Goudy’s Village Press. Thank you, Richard Kegler and the team at P22 Type Foundry for assembling such a great collection of Frederic Goudy typefaces!