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.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

a logo design by Mohammed Thiam, for a New Zealand publisher


Monday, January 28, 2013


digone here's the link for the photoshop tutorials
makes sure you review the sections on 1. making selections and 2. using layersthen repeat ! both are found in the Photoshop CS3, in the getting started section ...

Friday, January 18, 2013


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

design two Spring 2013assignment one, to be assigned/discussed during our first class.

 A research assignment, so, pick one, for next class. You'll be doing a Keynote or Powerpoint presentation on your choice after mid-term


Walter Gropius
Edgar Brandt
Harley Earl
Alexey Brodovitch
David Carson
The Eames
Art Nouveau
Norman BelGeddes
U&Lc
Lucian Bernard
Arts and Crafts Movement
Weiner Werkstatte
Arne Jacobson
Marcello Nizzoli
Wesley and Sean
Bugatti, Daimler and Benz
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
Tiffany 
Peter Saville
GTF
William Morris
the Bauhaus
Hoefler & Frere Jones
Micheal Graves
Marian Bantjes
Victor Horta
Frank Lloyd Wright
Phillipe Starck
Chermayeff & Geismar
Norman Foster
Adrian Frutiger
Alvar Alto
Milton Glaser
Louis Fili
R. Buckminster Fuller
Ed Fella
Eric Gill
A.M. Cassandre
Brad Holland
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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
Winterhouse
Neville Brody
Henry Van de Velde
Charles Rennie Macintosh
William Morris
April Greiman
Welles Coates
Kurt Schwitters
Michael Beruit
Raymond Lowey
Peter Saville
Robin and Lucienne Day
Wally Olins
Antoni  Gaudi
Jules Cheret
Mies van der Rohe
Emigre
Paul Rand
Ray Gun
Ellen Lupton
Tobias Freres
Winterhouse
Joseph Muller Brockmann
LeCorbusier
Tibor Kalman
Barbara Kruger
Hector Guimard
Seymour Chwast
Pentagram and Push Pin Studios
Aubrey Beardsley
the Dadaists
John Heartfield
Ettore Stottas
the Constructivists
Hector Guimard
Firmin Didot
Jasper Morrison
herbert matter
Christopher Wren
Massimo Vignelli
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, it's a design scavenger hunt, as it were .... 

digital one Spring 2013, assignment one ! ~ introduce yourselves to each of these graphic designers & typographers below -look carefully at their work, learn to recognize their styles, and read about their lives and influences. Many have their own web sites ..

One of the names is intentionally quite jumbled, others a little miss-spelled, mixed up on purpose. If you can decode/deduce who they all are, beaux Koo extra marks ..... ( hint ) She's part of a very famous design couple, and the creative force behind an  influential company/magazine specializing one might say in all type of types. 

this assignment is due second class.  no showing off, digital one students onlyto be assigned/discussed during our first class.