Kit Hinrichs Retrospective Opens at Art Center College of Design
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World-renowed graphic designer. AIGA Medalist. Consummate collector. Flag maven. Friend to Boy Scouts. Pentagram partner Kit Hinrichs is many things, and now he’s the subject of a retrospective opening today at his alma mater, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. On view through May 3 at the Art Center’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, “Telling Stories Through Design” includes more than 200 examples of Hinrichs’ work, from magazines and catalogs (now wonder we’re powerless in the face of glossy materials from Design Within Reach and Restoration Hardware) to exhibitions (the Experience Music Project in Seattle, for one) and identity programs for such diverse entities as Muzak, The California Academy of Sciences, and Napa Style. Designer Sean Adams describes the exhibit as “a tribute to Kit’s refined ability to convey a strong narrative message through design. There’s always a fine line between the thinking and the making, and Kit’s seamless ability to meld the craft and the aesthetics with the message makes his work absolutely sublime. He is a real master.”
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The exhibition will include never-before-seen footage of the four cars, including a young Warhol constructing his car, Stella (whose car is pictured at right) and Rauschenberg discussing their automotive inspirations and influences, and experts such as Hervé Poulain, the race car driver and initiator of the Art Car Project, discussing the impact of these works. A total of 16 Art Cars have been created since Poulain first commissioned Alexander Calder to paint his BMW racing car in 1975. Among the most recent contributing artists are David Hockney (1995), Jenny Holzer (1999), and Olafur Eliasson (2007). New artists are chosen by a panel of international judges, and BMW is now in discussions for the development of the seventeenth art car. We nominate James Nares, whose zooming brushstroke paintings (along with a new video installation) are 
