Graphics
Sir Harry Kroto's graphic design work has resulted in numerous posters, letterheads, logos, book and journal covers, medal design and more.
Sir Harry Kroto's design awards include:
- Sunday Times Book Jacket Design competition (1964)
- the Moet Hennessy/Louis Vuitton Science pour l鈥橝rt Prize (1994)
Kroto has a citation in the international design annual 鈥淢odern Publicity鈥 (1979) for the cover of 鈥淐hemistry at Sussex鈥. He designed the Nobel UK Stamp for Chemistry in 2001 and has exhibited in the Royal Academy (London) Summer Exhibition, 2004.
Covers
Posters
Logos
Artwork
Drawings
On display
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
In 2004, Allen Jones and David Hockney curated the RA Summer Exhibition. They devoted one room to people who use their hands to draw as an aid to their work.
This man, Sir Harry Kroto 鈥 he鈥檚 a Nobel prize winner because he discovered a new carbon element. He said he went to art school and wanted to be a designer, but he somehow got into chemistry. He says, 鈥淲ell, I was just playing and it was a conceptual argument about whether you could close this sphere with an octagon.鈥
He thought about this then he looked at Buckminster Fuller鈥檚 geodesic dome. Through doing this he discovered a molecule that was exactly that construction, which was the new carbon element for which he has won a Nobel prize.
He鈥檚 totally messianic about his commitment to drawing. It鈥檚 just making the point that drawing is a very basic way of communicating and rationalising one鈥檚 ideas. The fact that it鈥檚 somehow seen as a recreational pastime now in educational establishments is a shame.
Allen Jones
Kroto added "Allen did not remember things perfectly but he got the spirit right!"
Articles about the exhibition:
- , the Guardian
- , Royal Academy
- , studio international
Light ceiling design at Leibniz University Hamburg
The design was based on an icosahedral X-ray crystal pattern.
I managed to get Google to celebrate C60鈥檚 25th birthday on 4 September 1985, with a rotating Buckyball. This stimulated Google to develop more dynamic doodles.
Sir Harry Kroto