Sunday, September 28, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Inspiration: Bauhaus Style
As I was creating a font for class, I thought about this classic Bauhaus font I've seen over and over again. So I did a little research on the movement and found this article that talks about what lessons we should take from the school. http://blog.visual.ly/six-lessons-from-the-bauhaus-masters-of-the-persuasive-graphic/
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Friday, September 19, 2014
Design Pop Book Launch by Lisa Roberts
Lisa Roberts was interviewed about her new book, Design Pop, and about the design industry as a whole. Read the article from Refinery 29 here: http://www.refinery29.com/2014/09/74532/design-pop-book-lisa-roberts#slide-2
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Website Design
I'm interested in web design, and was looking around and found this site that has given awards to great, clean websites. I really like the style of these websites and could gain inspiration from them for my projects now. Here is the page: http://www.awwwards.com/websites/clean/
Monday, September 8, 2014
1. Piet Zwart
Zwart was a Dutch graphic designer, typographer, photographer, interior and furniture designer that was influenced by the Constructivist, Arts and Crafts movements and De Stijl. He worked as a successful graphic designer for the NKF Company prior to his German arrest in 1942. After the war, he mainly worked in interior design. His work is still influential, especially in the Piet Zwart Institute at the William de Kooning Academy.
http://www.designishistory.com/1920/piet-zwart/
http://pzwart.wdka.nl
http://www.designishistory.com/1920/piet-zwart/
http://pzwart.wdka.nl
2. Jan Tschichold
Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer who said he was "one of the most powerful influences on 20th century typography" and many would agree. While working at Penguin Books, he developed a standard style for every book cover and oversaw over 500 books in two years. He fled Germany during he rise of the Nazi party, who disliked his use of new and sans-serif typefaces.
http://www.designishistory.com/1920/jan-tschichold/
3. Emil Ruder
Ruder was a Swiss graphic designer and typographer that was a founder of the famous Swiss style of design and the Basil School of Design, along with Armin Hofmann. Ruder used the grid, preferred sans-sarif typefaces, and clarity. His work had been very influential and emulated by many designers.
http://www.designishistory.com/1940/emil-ruder/
http://www.designishistory.com/1940/emil-ruder/
4. El Lissitzky
Lissitzky was a Russian graphic designer, artist, typographer, architect and photographer that influenced the Suprematist, Bauhaus and Constructivist art movements. He also created propaganda and exhibitions for the Soviet Union in the early 1900s.
http://www.designishistory.com/1920/el-lissitzky/
http://www.designishistory.com/1920/el-lissitzky/
5. Robert Massin
Massin is a French graphic designer, typographer and art director who became famous for his experimental use of typography. Massin worked as an art director of Editions Gallimard, a book publisher, for many years. He also wrote "La Lettre et L'image" about design. Massin used graphic design to enhance the story and text's meaning.
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/language-unleashed
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/language-unleashed
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
1. Wim Crouwel
Wim Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer, type designer and typographer. He left art school to become a painter, but found he loved to organize information on a page and started creating posters in 1952. He started designing catalogues and posters for museums, later founding a studio, Total Design. Crouwel loved Helvetica, is a modernist, functionalist and purist. He created many wordmarks and the famous New Alphabet.
http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Wim-Crouwel/
http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Wim-Crouwel/
2. Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann was a Swiss graphic designer that has been noted for his great influence on "generations of designers". His style is elegant and simple and worked as a lithographer and graphic designer before becoming and educator. Hofmann was a great teacher to young designers, his student Kenneth Hiebert said Hofmann's class was like starting all over again in design. He influenced many designers and had a beautiful personal style that is well recognized today.
http://www.aiga.org/medalist-arminhofmann/
3. Jessica Hische
Jessica Hische is a typographer, designer and illustrator living and working in Brooklyn. She has created work for Starbucks, Wes Anderson, Target, Penguin Books, Tiffany & Co., and many many more famous brands. Hische works in several mediums, creating advertising, books, brand identities and editorial work.
http://jessicahische.is/awesome
http://jessicahische.is/awesome
4. Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer living and working in New York City. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Pratt Institute in New York City. He is known for his work in the music industry, creating artwork for Lou Reed, David Bryne and many others. He worked in Hong Kong before returning back to New York, and he has had exhibitions of his work worldwide.
http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com
5. Bruno Monguzzi
Bruno Monguzzi is a Swiss Graphic Designer that attended the St.Martin's School of Art and the London College of Printing before working for several well-known agencies. He worked for Studio Boggeri, Dennis Bailey, Charles Gagnon, James Volkus, and then independently in his own atelier. He was successful, being awarded the Premio Bodoni in 1971, the Gold Medal from the New York Art Directors Club in 1990, the Yusaku Kamekura Award and the Gold Medal at the Toyama Biennial in 2000.
http://a-g-i.org/member-work/profile/340
Adrian Frutiger
Adrian Frutiger is a Swiss typeface designer
who influenced the world of digital type in the second half of the twentieth century.
He created many type faces, including eponymous Frutiger, Univers, Avenir, and
a personal favorite of mine, Eygptienne.
Frutiger studied in Zürich, focusing on
calligraphy before being hired by Charles Piegnot, of Deberny et Peignot, for
his wood engraved illustrations. During his time there, Frutiger created many typefaces
we know and love today. In the 1970s, he created the Paris Metro sign and
way-finding signage for the Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris. When he created Univers, he created a grid that is a chart that documents the different variations of the font based on stroke weight and kerning, creating organization for the font." Univers also has many faces, 44, many with individual weight and width that makes it very unique. Frutiger
said, “the
most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close
together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not
perceived by the reader. In the course of my professional life I have acquired
knowledge and manual skill. To pass on what I had learned and achieved to the
next generation became a necessity.”
Adrian Frutiger has passed on that knowledge,
through his elegant and beautiful typefaces that we cherish and use today, many
years after their original creation.
http://melindadraut.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/adrian-frutiger-and-the-univers-grid/
http://melindadraut.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/adrian-frutiger-and-the-univers-grid/
Universal Typeface
Bic has been collecting handwriting samples and averaging them to create a universal typeface. The idea sounds pretty cool, but it mainly ends up looking rather boring due to the average, and because people were using tablets or even mice to write. Even still, its cool to see the variation from different parts of the world.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/846791-digging-for-data-in-bics-typeface-experiment/
Monday, September 1, 2014
Inspiration: Saint Laurent
The September issue of Vogue had many beautiful advertisements, but I was specifically inspired by the simplicity and elegance of the Saint Laurent spread. I admire this minimal style and hope to create something in this style soon.
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