this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Thursday, August 30, 2012


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

design two, assignment one. Research, pick one, for next class.

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



Wednesday, August 22, 2012

    my fall schedule ...