Presentations

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2.) Shepard Fairey:

South Carolina

Designer as a teenager

Skatepark influence

Style: Art Deco, sunbursts, dark, hidden messages, bold colors and font.

Work: Obama poster, Black Sabbath poster, "Obey", Led Zepplin Mothership poster.

Presentations

1.) Stefan sagmeister:

Born 1962 in Austria

Vienna & New York art school

Worked at M&co in NY in 1993

Sagmeister Inc. 1993

Influences: Tibor Kalman-type and social responsibility

Style: Handwritten, "computer-illiterate", unexpected and unconventional

Musical design: Ok Go, Rolling Stones, and Lou Reed

Talking Heads- Won a grammy for box design

Use of typography and use of human body

2.) Clement Mok:

Born in 1958

Began career with Apple and help create macintosh

Created Mac Paint

Designer, publisher, educator, visionary, entrepreneur, web developer, software producer.

Style: Geometric lines, bold colors, artistic nature, symbolism, and abstract imagery.

Logos

AIGA, IDSA, NY Art Directors Club, CEO Magazine, Business Week...

3.) Leo Burnett:

Born in 1891 in St. Johns Michigan

1935 Opened agency in Chicago - Leo Burnett Worldwide

Symbols: Apples, Hand reaching for stars, and Black Pencil (Alpha 245)

Tony the Tiger, Pillsbury dough boy, Tucan Sam....

1.)Born in Hungary in 1949

Childhood influenced work (couldn't speak english)

New York for School

Cuba

Him and his wife opened M&Co. their design firm

Magazines, film titles and books

Social issues incorporated

Talking Heads CD cover design

Design's for bags- Barnes and Noble

Worked for Oliviero Toscani

The United Colors of Benetton- Kid's of different races promoting peace

Colors magazine

2.) David Carson

Experimental Typography

Not mainstream, literal, but is emotional

Self-taught designer, 1983 attended a workshop

Swiss style

Surfing is an influence

Pro surfer from California

Common Elements-Big Idea, unusual fonts, mistakes, no grid system and cluttered.

Before and after the computer

1983-1986 magazines: Transworld Skateboarding, Musician, Beach Culture, Surfer, Ray Gun, Design consultant to clients...

David Carson Design Inc.

Matthew Carter:

Typography Designer

Work is continued to be used

Father was a typographer

born in London

Influences: Father, Andrea Mantegna (renaissance painter), Robert g. typographer.

Technology impacted his work

Bitstream Inc. 1981

Carter & Cone Inc.

Bell Centennial- Matched better with helvetica

Verdana

Influential Designers Day #2

Neville Brody:

1957, London

Professors didn't approve of unusual style

Punk music influence

Bands he worked with: Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche Mode

Face Magazine- named art director within 2 years

City Limits, Lei, Arena Magazines

Fuse Magazine

1988-Graphic Language of Neville Brody (most popular graphic design text)

Research Studios 1994

Use of Contrast of colors and layout of typography

Art Chantry:

1954, Seattle Washington

Childhood influenced style greatly

Tacoma Washington after mom left dad

High School- Psychadelic, posters, rock n roll, french symbolist, girls, poetry, and existentialism influence

pacific lutheran university

fort steilacoom community college

western washington state college

Resistant use of technology, Used screen print. Recycled imagery. 

Influenced by pop art

Storm Thorgerson:

Brittish

Uses photography with layers

Designed band covers

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon cover

Big central object, small object to side is a major theme

Led Zepplin- House of the  Holy

BA in English and Philosophy

1968- Him and Aubrey Powell formed "Hipgnosis" graphic design studio- worked with album covers

Never had a set price in the company

Storm left 1985

Formed Green Back Films with Powell and Christopherson..didn't make a lot of money

Munch, Dali, and Maurice Sendak influenced him

Made music videos and documentaries 

StormStudios- still making album covers

Influential Designers Day #1

April Greiman:

(presentation)

Milton Glaser: 

-Founded Push Pin Studios with others

-Founded New York Magazine 1968

-WBMG: Studio dedicated to magazine and newspaper design (redesigned The Washington Post, La Vanguardia, and O Globo)

-Milton Glaser Inc. 1974, Print Graphics: Logos, Stationary, brochures, and signage. 

-1950's work was direct simple, and original

-1960's work was flat shapes and images

-Gestural and silhouette wash drawing posters

1980's and 90's- Illusions and dimensionality was the focus

-Bob Dylan Poster, I <3>

Seymour Chwast:

-From New York City

-Push Pin Almanack and Studio (with milton glaser and other designers)

-Victorian and Art Nouveau influence...

-Houdini Poster, War is Madness, and Moonride

-Illustrations