Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Mags/Books/websites/blogs
Good to talk about marketing, and the complex issues effecting design briefs in the current climate. It allows for some initiative from design groups and designers who work collaboratively to offer new ideas, but this will be subject to the quality of their research and knowledge, with a creative mind. It was good to see you looking at the magazines and picking out articles of interest.Of course this can be done on line, but WH Smith still seems to have an abundance of printed magazines even though many thought these might die. Ironically, a lot of them are about computers. I look forward to your comments with links in them, to see what articles and ads caught your eye. Also, don't forget your finished cans next week as I have to assess them and hopefully we will display them for all to see.
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The link for the original article I found no longer works but have since found this article on the revival of the US long-distance bus company 'Greyhound'. The article is a bit dry but its interesting to follow the link to the images and see the development of the logo over the last 50 years. http://www.id-mag.com/article/GreyIsTheNewGreen/
ReplyDeleteA good link and great to see evolution of logo, even the one where the dog could get run over. There's a large romance to Greyhound buses and the wide open road of opportunity in America. Many songs and films relate to this, so the identity has strong resonance, including the bus details etc. A good link. Do any of the logos really stand out?
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ReplyDelete"The creative review"
Great magazine that included a section on up and coming graphic designers. When reading this I found a designer called Joe Bichard who recently graduated from Kingston University studying animation and illustration.
I really like his style of illustration which features ink and watercolor wash effect combined with digital software. I think its great how he uses animation to help bring his illustrations to life.
this is his website if you want to check out his work www.joebichard.com/ :]
Looked through a few magazines and found a humorous take on Typography: Tagline - "I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg...while Helvetica is tucked up in bed, Comic Sans is out partying hard. And he really doesn't care if you don't like him" - Mike Lacher. (Creative Review. August 2010)A good read!!!!!
ReplyDeleteEqually, found some great photographic references:
Stock food, Majority World, Ericksonstock, Shutterstock, Lonelyplanetimages, Eyephotography
Also, regarding our discussion about the relationship of the brain and its connection to not just Graphic Design but everything we do. I found this video, which you should all check out.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
cool link to Joe Bichard, like the illustrations and the style that he has.....some of the pics are quite intense.
ReplyDeleteWhen i was looking through some magazines, i found a graphic designer who really stood out to me named Andy Cooke. He's a third year university student studying at Staffordshire. His work itself shows alot of use of typography that conveys a message of normally optimistic ideals. He describes his work as; simple, optimistic and stolen.
ReplyDeleteBefore going into graphic design, he did some product design, which i found quite interesting because i did a similar thing, so i guess you could say that like his work because i can relate to the designer himself.
I couldn't find much on him though, since he isn't that well known at all. I was only able to find two images of his and a brief description on his work.
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/gallery/gallery_2/april_2010?result_page=1
http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/3544396/DSCF2097.JPG
I also found this video that everyone here might find quite interesting called "Intelligent Design". I personally, really like this type of animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZPDYriJ3s&p=39960EA84BBE323C&playnext=1&index=16
As I was looking the Grafik 179 magazine (Nov. 2009, Profile Uwe Loesch) in page 44 (image 01), I found the poster "History as an Argument" for Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club, New York and I found it really interesting. It makes me feel the real argument and it was really nice for the smart approach of argument and the simplicity that it has.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.posterpage.ch/div/news10/n100409.htm
http://tdc.org/
"British Journal of Photography"
ReplyDeleteLooking though the magazine I came across a photographer called Tiana Markova who does a lot of up close personal work with average everyday people who really keep a lot hidden away. Markova did a piece of work called "Other people's Dirty Laundry" a series of 26 images telling the story as you look though them.
I think the images have captured al lot of emotions some of which being fear, shame, relief and happiness. It also makes you think how often this occurs, why it occurs and what the relationship between the two people is like.
Photographers overview
"Changing sheets and doing laundry are the chores of my work and i think it's interesting that i am often dealing with other people's "dirty laundry" - repressed emotions, fantasies, fears, activities which seem unconscionable… It's sad that sex is so complicated for us humans."
The link below shows the images for this piece :)
http://www.tianamarkova.com/#/personal-work/other-peoples-dirty-laundry/jenna022
While looking through the magazines the other week i come across a company called "Wyatt Clarke and Jones." A lot of there work is very intersting and different and appealed greatly, to a style i will look into for future projects. They use a strong contrast in photography, also by taken the photographs with interesting perspectives and also has very balanced compositions. Another reason why this photography/graphic business appealed to me was because of the variety used between their work even though it is mostly focused around photography.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wyattclarkejones.com/portfolio.cfm?aID=7742
Check them out.
There is an article in one the the Grafik magazines which I found interesting. It's about the origins of the Yves Saint Laurent logo. The logo was designed in the 1960's by the then greatest graphic artist around; "The designer presented only one design, the entwining initials". The original hand-drawn piece still sits in Saint Laurents house. The artist responsible comitted sucide in Paris in 1968. The YSL has is described as a 'beautiful piece of typography. Elegant and timeless.'
ReplyDeleteThe YSL logo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Gx1r9oyeZd0/TE-Vd-Njm1I/AAAAAAAAAVM/Trntt01O50E/s1600/Yves_Saint_Laurent_Logo.svg.png
Oh and this is quite cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvvcRdwNhGM
I was looking through the Creative Review magazine and came across this article on designer by the name of David James. Although having worked with some big names within the industry he states that he doesn’t want to become a celebrity designer, so he tries to avoid doing conferences or talking about his work in public.
ReplyDeleteOriginally from Manchester he left school at 16 to attend Stockport College where he left in 19883 and got a job as a sign writer. Eventually he got a job with “Gillett & Bevan” agency where he decided that advertising wasn’t for him. In a bizarre move David decided to move up to Edinburgh to find love and work for design consultancy called “McIlroy Coates”. Unfortunately the relationship didn’t work out so he packed up his bags and moved to London where he worked with “The Fine White Line” design studio from 1986 – 1987, this lead him to opening his own studio in London at the age of 25.
David James has had a colourful career in design and despite having a done work within graphic design he has stated that he likes imagery not graphic design. That was the main thing that appealed to me in this article, the irony of a former graphic designer who doesn’t like graphics or advertising.
Here a link to the Creative Review website with more details on David James work and life story.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/march/david-james-out-of-print
"The Creative Review Blog"
ReplyDeleteI loved looking through this site, offering loads of links and advertisments to other websites.
I looked at the article: 'Process: The working practices of Barney Bubbles', following the Artist project talks, a good read about him with some great images of his work. An inspiring quote I found from him whilst reading was "He enjoyed turning convention on its head by creating imperfections and being open to serendipity."
I also found the designer Adrian Shaughnessy from this site and researched some of his work. I specifically like his sophisticated typograpghic designs. In addition I also discovered he has written many books which may be worth researching, as well as a holding lectures for students and the public.
This article "Graphic Design VS Illustration" written by him is quite interesting...
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=4857
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vt1xp/Wallace_and_Gromits_World_of_Invention_Nature_Knows_Best/ enter this website into your browser and watch it for some interesting designs!
ReplyDeleteSo when checking out the mags we had, i came across a creative review and luckily had the celebrating 30 years special edition, so was made pretty easy of what I was gunna review about it.
ReplyDeleteSo basically, the way that Creative Review are celebrating their 30 years in this magazine is by picking out 30 designs/designers from the future.. which is mad as we don't know whats going to come about yet, but basically they see it as instead of looking back they are looking forward..
For example they are looking at the Apple iPad which I must admit i have wanted one for some time now but keep telling myself that i dont actually need one! But they are seeing it as a good thing and that in the future the design of it will improve and hopefully become something so amazing that nothing will come above it, but as we know someone will always bring out something better and the intensity of peoples brains is getting better and better as the years go on..
I found a video on James Jarvis who is an illustrator.. don't know if anyone will like it but have a look?
http://creativereview.co.uk/crtv/interviews/james-jarvis-speaks