Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Barbara “Bobbie” Stauffacher Solomon is an American landscape architect and graphic designer, who was born in 1928 in California. She is well known for her large-scale interior Supergraphics that were highly influential in the 1960s and 70s, same as the exterior signage at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County, California (which you will see down below).

The influential Sea Ranch Tennis Club.

Her signature is bold and impressive shapes which she combines into magnificent and massive forms that easily and as if freely blend, and at the same time stand out in the architectural solutions and overall designs she creates. The way she plays with the colours is interesting too because it never looks too much. It emphasizes the idea of movement, the energy that elegantly and a little bit rebelliously looks, and feels.

Her expressiveness reflects through the feeling of motion that she develops in her visual compositions that catch the eye (and the breath). Movement, I think that it is her second signature.

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