Saturday, February 28, 2009

First designer Quote


"Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking"




Ellen Lupton

graphic designer

editor

writer

curator

educator


  • Studied design and art in early 1980’s at ‘The Cooper Union’ in New York City.
  • Curated a small design gallery inside the school for 7 years, also published a lot, built a reputation as a writer and critic.
  • In 1992 offered a job at ‘Cooper-Hewitt’ National Design Museum in New York City, enjoyed creating larger exhibitions with catalogues and public programming.
  • Since 1997 has been the director of the Master of Fine Art program in Graphic Design at Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as still being part-time curator for Cooper–Hewitt.
  • In 2009 offering a graduate level writing course to challenge her design students to study writing as a craft, believing that it is important for graphic designers to learn about expression through words and wit.


Ellen Lupton has produced many exhibitions and books, including:

  • Mechanical Brides – 1993
  • Mixing Messages – 1996
  • Letters from the Avant-Garde – 1996
  • Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age – 1999
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial – 2000, 2003, 2006
  • Skin: surface, Substance + Design – 2002
  • Thinking with Type – 2004
  • D.I.Y.: Design it Yourself – 2006
  • D.I.Y. Kids – 2007

Books she is currently working on include:

  • Design Your Life (with Julia Lupton, her twin sister)
  • Graphic Design: the New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips and MICA students and faculty.

Books co-authored with her husband J Abbott Miller include:

  • The Bathroom, The Bathroom, and the Aesthetics of Waste - 1992
  • Design, Writing, Research – 1996
  • Swarm – 2006

Ellen Lupton received the AIGA Gold Medal in 2007.


www.mica.edu/faculty_directory/index

www.elupton.com/index.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen-Lupton

www.dwell.com/peopleplaces/profiles

www.ellenlupton.com/images

www.austinkleon.com/tag/ellen-lupton/







Friday, February 27, 2009















Paula Scher was born 1948 in Washington D.C. She is an American graphic designer and artist. Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa by the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Records and Atlantic Records. She worked at Time Inc. She formed the studio Koppel & Scher with Terry Koppel in 1984, where she embraced the pressures of working on her own. Since 1991, she has been a principal at the New York office of the Pentagram design consultancy.

Paula Scher has been in the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame 1998. She received the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation in Design 2000, and a Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2001. Her album designs have earned her four Grammy Award nominations.

Paula is known for her large-scale paintings of maps, covered with hand painted labelling and information. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

links:
www.pentagram.com/en/partners/paula-scher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paula_scher
www.paulascher.com

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

post1: Alan Fletcher






ALAN FLETCHER
Graphic Designer (1931-2006)
Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work

Synthesizing the graphic traditions of Europe and North America to develop a spirited, witty and very personal visual style, ALAN FLETCHER is among the most influential figures in British graphic design as a founder of Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in the 1960s and Pentagram in the 1970s.

Designed to be opened at random, The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher’s 2001 book, is an unfailing source of wit, elegance and inspiration. At over a thousand pages, it is a spectacular treatise on visual thinking, one that illustrates the designer’s sense of play and his broad frame of reference.

Alan Fletcher is one of the most influential figures in post-war British graphic design. The fusion of the cerebral European tradition with North America’s emerging pop culture in the formulation of his distinct approach made him a pioneer of independent graphic design in Britain during the late 1950s and 1960s. As a founding partner of Pentagram in the 1970s, Fletcher helped to establish a model of combining commercial partnership with creative independence. He also developed some of the most memorable graphic schemes of the era, notably the identities of Reuters and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and made his mark on book design as creative director of Phaidon

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/alan-fletcher


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Fletcher_(graphic_designer)
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/blue.htm
http://images.google.com.au/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=paul+rand
http://blog.pentagram.com/archives/AF_V&A_Sm.jpg

POST1: JACK











Neville Brody


“Communication should be entertaining”
Is a British designer and art director at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades. 

Neville first worked in record cover design but made his name largely throu
gh his revolutionary work as Art Director for the Face magazine.
Neville has consistently pushed the boundaries of visual communication in all media through his experimental and challeng
ing work, and continues to extend the visual languages we use through his exploratory creative expression. He is known for his work on:
The Face magazine
Arena magazines
Cabaret and Dépêche mode (record covers)
The Guardian (news paper)
The Observer (news paper)

Neville also created a number of notable typefaces during his work for FontWorks in which he was a founding member. In 1988 Thames & Hudson published the first of two volumes about his work, which became the world's best selling graphic design book. Combined sales now exceed 120,000.Nev
ille is still working as a graphic designer together with his business partner Fwa Richards in their own design practice, research studios 1994 (Since then studios have opened in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and New York. The company is so successful because of its ability to create new visual languages for a variety of applications ranging from publishing to film.




Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody
http://www.researchstudios.com/home/006-neville-brody/NEVILLE_home.php
http://www.linotype.com/669/nevillebrody.html
http://www.identifont.com/show?16X
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/neville_brody/
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"Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does."

  David Carson is principal and chief designer of David Carson Design, Inc. with offices in del mar, California and Zurich Switzerland.

Carson graduated with "honors and distinction" from San Diego state university, where he received a BFA degree in sociology. A former professional surfer, he was ranked #9 in the world during his college days. Numerous groups including the New York Type Directors Club, American Center for Design and I.D. magazine have recognized his studio's work with a wide range of clients in both the business and arts worlds. Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine, and a front-page article in the new York times. London-based Creative Review magazine dubbed Carson "Art Director of the Era." The American Center for Design (Chicago) called his work on Ray Gun magazine "the most important work coming out of America." His work on Beach Culture magazine won "Best Overall Design" and "Cover of the Year" from the Society of Publication Designers in New York.

Carson's first book, with Lewis Blackwell, The End of Print, (forward by David Byrne) is the top selling graphic design book of all time, selling over 200,000 copies, and printed in 5 different languages. The work featured in The End of Print is the subject of various one-man exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America, Asia and Australia. Carson's other titles include 2nd Sight, Fotografiks (with design historian Philip Meggs). He has two recently released books, TREK and The Book of Probes with Marshall McLuhan. David is also art director for the McLuhan estate ("the medium is the message").

Carson lectures extensively throughout the world, as well as at colleges throughout the U.S., including Cranbrook, ART centre, Notre dame, RISD and Cal Arts. He has had numerous one-man exhibitions of his work worldwide, and has spoken at over 100professional symposiums, including "Designer As Editor" at the Design Institute in Amsterdam. He teaches a weeklong workshop at the school of visual arts in NYC each summer.

The International Center for Photography (NY) singled out Carson as the "Designer of the Year" for his use of photography and design. Print Magazine proclaimed his work "Brilliant," while USA Today described it as "visually stunning," adding that his design of Ray Gun Magazine "may actually get young people reading again."

Typography, a title published by Graphics magazine (NY), lists Carson as a "Master of Typography." I.D. magazine chose Carson for their list of "America's most innovative designers". A feature in Newsweek magazine said of Carson "he changed the public face of graphic design". The graphic design publication Emigre devoted an entire issue to Carson, the only American designer to be so honored in the magazine's history. And in April 2004, London based creative review magazine calls David, "the most famous graphic designer on the planet". David recently picked up 4 gold awards at the Charleston ADDY awards, including a "special judges award" for "professionalism".

In the past few years, Carson has branched out into film and television to direct commercials and videos. He directed the launch commercials for Lucent technologies and teamed up with William Burroughs in Carson's short film, "The End of Print". He also collaborated with Harvard Business School professor John Kao on a documentary entitled "The Art and Discipline of Creativity." David designed the worldwide branding campaign for Microsoft in 1998, as well as the worldwide advertising for Giorgio Armani (Milan). He has appeared in advertisements endorsing Apple Computers, Samsung monitors and various paper companies. Carson has art directed and designed Surfer, twSkateboarding, twSnowboarding, Beach Culture, and Ray Gun magazines. He has an extensive list of international clients: Nine Inch nails, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Bank of Montreal, Microsoft, Quicksilver, Meg Ryan, David Byrne, Bush, Pepsi, and Xerox.

He currently serves as Creative Director for the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, and recently designed a special issue of Surfing Magazine titled "Explorations" which came out in July of '04. He also recently directed a television commercial for the progressive UMPQUA Bank in Seattle, Washington.

David's work continues to be subjective and largely driven by intuition, with an emphasis on reading material before designing it, and experimenting with ways to communicate in a variety of mediums. Carson remains a hands-on designer, keeping his studio small and mobile.

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com

post 1: Chris- "To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master" Milton Glaser B.1929

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designer in the United States. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center.
• Founded Pushpin Studio 1954
• Founded New York magazine 1968, & was president & design director till 1977.
• In 1983, Glaser teamed with Walter Bernard to form WBMG, a publication design firm located in New York City. Since its inception, they have designed more than 50 magazines, newspapers and periodicals around the world.
• Milton Glaser, Inc. was established in 1974
• In addition to commercial enterprises, Milton Glaser’s work has been exhibited world-wide
• From the start of his career, Milton Glaser has been an active member of both the design and education communities.
- Board Member at the School of Visual Arts, New York since 1961
- Board of Directors at The Cooper Union, New York
- Affiliated with The International Design Conference in Aspen since 1972 (president 1990-91)
- American Institute of Graphic Arts



Milton Glaser Design Work






Reference Links

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser.html
http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/studio/studio_index.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/glaser.html
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/2001/39.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser


POST 1: STACY




First select a second quote from the list. Next, post a 200 wd blog on one of your selected graphic designers. Collect at least 20 images of the designers work and select 5 to post to the blog. Insert five  links to reference the best information. Due 04.03.09
http://www.researchstudios.com/home/006-neville-brody/NEVILLE_home.php