digone here's the link for the photoshop tutorials

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

makes sure you review the sections on 1. making selections and 2. using layers, then repeat ! both are found in the Photoshop CS3, in the getting started section ...

Classic Dieter Rams, Dietrich Lubs watches - circa 1972, they're barely there ... that lovely rational simplicity, which was a constant feature of Rams' genius.

The artist's bio, illustrator Ruth Marten

Born and living in N.Y., Ruth Marten has worn several hats, in spite of the hair. From 1972 to 1980 she was an important figure in the tattoo underground and, as one of the few women practicing the craft, influenced people's ideas about body decoration. Working during the disco and punk era, she also tattooed in the Musee D'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris during the 10th Biennale de Paris in 1977.

Hired by Jean-Paul Goude for her first illustration (and for 30 years after) she illustrated books, albums and magazines and is most associated with the "Year in Provence" books of Peter Mayle, art-directed for A.A.Knopf by Carol Devine Carson. That love of the printed image informs her newest interest: changing, through over-drawing and collage, the configuration and content of 18th century engravings.

Her book "Histoire un-Naturelle," published for her 2007 London exhibit at Isis Gallery, is a catalogue of the work that came on the heels of a 17 year obsession with hair. Her drawing, painting and sculpture has been exhibited at the Aldrich Museum, the Tang Museum, the Halsey Institute, and is represented in many collections -- most recently in the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

in a time of plastic hearts, LED's and wifi jungles- here are simple things made by hand, made for the hand for use in the world - all from the wünderful Kaufmann Mercantile daily functional design, for the humans still among us

some examples of the classic London Underground map, the red text is

linked to a little animation of how the maps have changed over time, the other

images will, if clicked, enlarge.

the Design two- "it's not what you know ... ,

BUT who you know " list "

design two, assignment one, you'll see.

Walter Gropius

Edgar Brandt

Harley Earl

Alexey Brodovitch

David Carson

The Eames

Art Nouveau

Norman BelGeddes

U&Lc

Weiner Werkstatte

Arne Jacobson

Marcello Nizzoli

Wesley and Sean

Tangerine Studio

Joseph Hofmann

Henry VanDerVelde

Gerrit Reitveld

Saul Bass

Rudy Van derLans

George Jensen

George Nelson

Peter Behrens

Dieter Ram

Adbusters

Georg Kleeman

Richard Sapper

Peter Saville

GTF

William Morris

Charles Rennie Macintosh

the Bauhaus

Hoefler & Frere Jones

Micheal Graves

Marian Bantjes

Frank Lloyd Wright

Phillipe Starck

Chermayeff & Geismar

Norman Foster

Alvar Alto

Milton Glaser

R. Buckminster Fuller

Eric Gill

Brad Holland

Herb Lubalin

The Arts and Crafts Movement

Memphis Group

Herbert Mayer

William Van Allen

Marrianne Brandt

Jonathan Ive

Alvin Lustig

Chip Kidd

Tangerine

Paul Rand

Henry Van de Velde

William Morris

April Greiman

Welles Coates

Michael Beruit

Raymond Lowey

Peter Saville

Robin and Lucienne Day

Wally Olins

Mies van der Rohe

Emigre

Ray Gun

Ellen Lupton

Tobias Freres

Winterhouse

Joseph Muller Brockmann

LeCorbusier

Tibor Kalman

Barbara Kruger

Seymour Chwast

Pentagram

Push Pin Studios

Aubrey Beardsley

the Dadaists

John Heartfield

Ettore Stottas

the Constructivists

Hector Guimard

Firmin Didot

Jasper Morrison

Christopher Wren

Bruno Matheson

Victor Horta

Antonin Gaudi

Alexey Brodovitch

Alphonse Mucha

Fredric Law Olmstead

Alessi

Rene Lalique

Johannis Itten

Richard Neutra

d is for designers, at work in the dark, E is for effort, required from the start !

assimilate the following people (D1)

digital one, assignment one ! ~ introduce yourselves to each of these graphic designers & typographers -look carefully at their work, learn to recognize their styles, and read about their lives and influences.

One of the names is quite jumbled, mixed up on purpose. If you can decode/deduce who it is, beaux Koo extra marks ..... She's part of a famous design couple, and an influential company/magazine specializing one might say in all type of types. due second class. please, no showing off, digital one only

my new class schedule for the
winter 2012, click to enlarge ..

something you all should know, courtesy of one of my personal heros, mid fielder Vinnie Jones