THE supergraphics collection

BY BARBARA STAUFFACHER SOLOMON

We're excited to announce a new collaboration with legendary artist and designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. "Bobbie" is best known for her pioneering use of supergraphics, large-scale graphic shapes and text applied inside and outside of architecture. A San Francisco native and the first American woman to attend the prestigious Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland, she studied with designer Armin Hofmann from 1956 to 1959. Upon her return to California in the 1960s, she fused Swiss modernism with a bold California pop aesthetic in her first major project, The Sea Ranch.

Her supergraphics designs have influenced countless designers in the decades that followed, and Bobbie has continued to work as a designer, architect, and fine artist ever since. She’s exhibited at SFMoMA, taught at Yale and Harvard, and recently published an illustrated memoir WHY? WHY NOT? In 2018, Adobe released an excellent short documentary about Bobbie titled Visions Not Previously Seen. (Watch it right now if you haven’t seen it!)

Today, at 92 years old, Bobbie is still working and remains a staunchly independent spirit. “It’s fun to do work that you are good at and that supports you,” says Solomon. “I always worked for myself. I suppose that is as free as one can get.”

We're in awe of Bobbie’s career and the trails she’s blazed. We’re thrilled to present this exclusive capsule collection of shirts and tote bags inspired by her 1968 Sea Ranch supergraphics. This is the first in a series of artist collaborations we’ll be doing here at Oh You Pretty Things, under the curation of creative director Gary Hustwit.

The Supergraphics Collection was a limited drop, and all products are now SOLD OUT.