Milton Glaser - Typography - Chris Nowlan

Milton Glaser - Typography

Fonts

Milton Glaser is a well-known graphic designer, typographer, and font designer, and has design a number of fonts, that include Babyfat, Babycurls, Baby Teeth, and Houdini, but his most known font is the Glaser stencil. Glaser designed Glaser Stencil in 1970. Glaser Stencil is a perfect summation of both Modernist proportion and New York-style solidity and self-assurance. An all capitals font, the shapes of the letters are reminiscent of popular sans serif faces of the time, such as Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic. Like everything New York-related, Glaser Stencil should be used big, in headlines and display applications, where it can play a bold, proud, and confident role.

Reference

http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/mondosearchresults.htm?st=12&kid=Glaser%20Stencil&gclid=CN-Ay7zumZkCFRDyDAodlBG5Dw
http://www.linotype.com/406/miltonglaser.html

Alan Fletcher Typography



Alan Fletcher used a lot of his own hand writing in his work. As you can see in the example I have posted of beware wet paint.

He shifted away from the thin serif style type, which was widely used in the 1930’s and more towards the thick and condensed typeface styles. These thick styles he still did in hand written type as in example of The American Art Book.

I found most of his text was done in black, red and blue, which u can also find throughout his work in graphics as well. He used bold bright primary colours with black and white, in majority of his work.

In his design work he experimented with collage, bright flat colours and bold clean shapes, which reflected in his typography word. His work changed due to the changing world in which we live and he moved with the time all throughout his career. This gave him a long lasting career in graphic design and typography.



His works consists of Typography such as Pirelli, Penguin books, Victoria and Albert museum, and Bloomingdales bag. Working in companies such as Pentagram. Forming successful design company Fletcher/Forbes/Gill with in his long lasting and thriving design career.



http://images.google.com.au/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=paul+rand

http://marcuslambert.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/fletcher.jpg

http://wemadethis.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/alanfletcher2.jpg

http://pentagram.com/en/new/2007/05/remembering-alan-fletcher.php

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

“ Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work.” Ellen Lupton





Recognized for her invaluable role as an educator, author and curator in the field of design and for her intellect and mastery of words.

it wasn’t until she began as a fine art student at Cooper Union in 1981 that she discovered the expressive potential of typography.
She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002).
Together with J. Abbott Miller she founded Design Writing Research in 1985 as an after-hours studio where we could collaborate on experimental projects that merge theory and practice, writing and designing.
She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students at MICA, explains design processes to a general audience. D.I.Y. Kids (October 2007), co-authored with Julia Lupton, is a design book for children illustrated with kids’ art. “It’s never too early,” they explain, “to talk to your child about design.”
Ellen Lupton has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She has a regular column, “The El Word,” in Readymade magazine. Her editorial illustrations have been published in The New York Times. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.
Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S.
Ellen Lupton is married to J. Abbott Miller, a partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram.
In addition to inspiring others to become contributors to the design world, Lupton challenges them to be intellectuals, too.

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-ellenlupton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Lupton
http://www.typotheque.com/authors/ellen_lupton
http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/
http://www.designwritingresearch.org/

reg mombassa

Chris O'Doherty is often referred to as a Renaissance man – the artist, singer, songwriter, musician – with an inexhaustible commitment to his art practice, O’Doherty’s iconic imgaery has been synonymous with the popular face of Australian visual culture for over three decades. Chris O’Doherty is perhaps best known for his long involvement with the celebrated Australian band, Mental as Anything and as one of the original designers for Mambo, the popular street wear label, however, O’Doherty has also been a serious exhibiting artist for over thirty years making a significant contribution to our cultural landscape, all intertwined with that of his alter ego, Reg Mombassa. THE ART OF CHRIS O’DOHERTY aka Reg Mombassa, is this first major survey exhibition of his work. We investigate O’Doherty’s use of religious, political and popular culture themes and his incisive commentary on society. Beneath the humour and his amusing parodies, lies an expression of serious insights and sympathies. O’Doherty is an artist not afraid to state his convictions.
Since 1976, Chris O’Doherty has played a major role in our cultural landscape. He has maintained a highly successful career as a musician and visual artist. O’Doherty’s work is widely sought by private & corporate collectors and features in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Powerhouse Museum and other important collections.

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www.dhub.org/articles/851 - 24k
alumni.cofa.unsw.edu.au/community/modules/alumni/profile/index.php?user =2 - 19k
www.surfresearch.com.au/rw.html - 92k
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Poster Design - "Milton Glaser" - Chris Nowlan

Poster Design - "Milton Glaser"

Milton Glaser is an American illustrator and graphic designer, where at the age of 13 he began taking life classes with Moses & Raphael Sover in New york, he attended the high school of Music and Art in New York between 1943-6. He studied painting, typography, and illustration at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art between 1948-51, with the aim of becoming a comic strip artist. Drawing remained central to his subsequent career in graphic design. He designs posters, record-sleeves, book illustrations, magazine covers and small advertisements in a witty, inventive style characterized by miscellaneous juxtapositions and revivalist frivolity. From the 1960s and to the mid-1970s Push Pin graphics dominated advertising and the print media, and Glaser’s work became something of a fashionable cult. By the late 1960s his forms had become flatter and more brightly coloured, inspired by Pop and Op art and he restyled a number of American and European journals in this more contemporary manner.

Reference Links

http://miltonglaserposters.com/index2.html

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.phpcriteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A2188&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1

1. Frank Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists.His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Fairey created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989 This later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, which has grown via an international network of collaborators replicating Fairey's original designs. In 2004, Fairey joined artists Robbie Conal and Mear One to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art .In 2005 Fairey collaborated with DJ Shadow on a box set, with t-shirts, stickers, prints, and a mix CD by Shadow. In 2005 also, he was a resident artist at the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. In 2006, Fairey contributed eight vinyl etchings to a limited-edition series of 12" singles by alternative rock band Mission of Burma, and has also done work for the musical group Interpol. In 2004, Shepard Fairey co-founded Swindle Magazine along with Roger Gastman. In June 2007, Fairey opened his one man show entitled "E Pluribus Venom," at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. The show made the arts section front page in the The New York Times. Fairey was arrested on February 7, 2009, on his way to the premiere of his show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, on two outstanding warrants related to graffiti. He was charged with damage to property for having painted two Boston area locations with http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Other_Sites http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Collaborations http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Obey_Art_Sightings http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Post_No_Bills:_Links_To_Obey_Related_Sites http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Interviews_with_Shepard_Fairey

Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko (born 1961) is a typeface designer from Bratislava. Licko (pronounced Litchko) immigrated to the US with her family as a schoolgirl. She studied architecture, photography and computer programming before taking a degree in graphic communications at the University of California at Berkeley.
Zuzana founded the design team Emigré Design with her husband Rudy VanderLans in 1984, and together they produced the critically acclaimed Emigré journal, which included Licko's digital typeface designs. 

Emigré was originally intended as cultural journal to showcase artists, photographers, poets, and architects. VanderLans and two other Dutch immigrants put the first issue together in 1984. Since there was no budget for typesetting, the text was mostly typewriter type that had been resized on a photocopier.
Working with the newly invented Macintosh computer and a bitmap font tool, Licko began creating fonts for the magazine. Emperor, Oakland, and Emigré were designed to accommodate low-resolution printer output. They were used in issue two, and, after several readers inquired about their availability, she began running ads for them in issue three. In 1985, Licko and Vanderlans launched Emigré fonts to allow them to market their own typefaces and those of other young designers.
Some Fonts designed by Licko
Lo-Res, 1985, 2001             Base Nine and Twelve, 1995
Modula, 1985                       Mrs. Eaves, 1996
Citizen, 1986                        Base Monospace, 1997.
Matrix, 1986                        Hypnomedia, 1997
Tall Pack, 1990                    Tarzana, 1998
Matrix Script, 1992             Solex, 2000
Dogma, 1994.                       Puzzler, 2005

Links

http://www.identifont.com
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-zuzanalickoandrudyvanderlans
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Licko
http://www.emigre.com/Licko.