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Thursday's D1 class, here's a short listing of ( mostly graphic) designers for your blog to get you started, but remember that there are, thousands more out there. This design art thingy is strangely enough,  a world wide phenomenon, so do some research you monkeys, and explore a little.... extra marks for those adventurous souls who step off the beaten track .... If you see something you like, do it. 

This is an evolving project, I don't expect anything finished next class, but I do expect, at least, a preliminary phase, which illustrates progress towards a final project. 

If you are in Monday's class this notice doesn't effect you yet , but it will. But wait, until class for your questions etc.

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/?dcdc=top/t

http://www.sagmeister.com/index.html

http://www.aiga.com

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-tiborkalman

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-saulbass

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-michaelbierut

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-alexeybrodovitch

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-gailanderson

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-seymourchwast

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-beafeitler

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-sheilalevrantdebretteville

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-ivanchermayeffandtomgeismar

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-aprilgreiman

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-paulascher

D2, vis a vis the movie Helvetica we were watching. I bring to your
attention an wonderful absurdity, situated clearly in the department
of "I have no idea why".

It seems that the Helvetica version of the moleskin notebook, the
notebooks are small, ubiquitous, and rather useful hardbound notebooks
found everywhere for around 20$.

It seems, inexplicably, that they've have become a real collectors item.
So much so, that there are, entire websites and exhibits devoted to its
celebration, the simple little tome, has become an object of desire, a
kind of Dita Von Tesse liber. The sites and it's acolytes, chronicle its
collection and undertake a weird kind of the cultural analysis of the little
red, but completely empty book.

Will we become a civilization of microscopic obssessors ? Soon to be
collecting sub-atomic particles. I imagine the owners walking them, in
little tartan sweaters on little diamond leashes. I mean the Moleskins
are nice and everything, but who collects an empty book ?

Jeez ... What does that say ?

D2, a digital layout system , pre-press, and then proofing the plating process,
then proofing the output, developing the inks etc. As it is .. certainly arduous, but
rewarding. The proofing, adjusting and failing, are all an essential part of creating,
nothing is finished the first time - not here, nor anywhere else.

Alvin Lustig's contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive.

By the time he died at the age of forty in 1955, he had already introduced principles of Modern art to graphic design that have had a long-term influence on contemporary practice. He was in the vanguard of a relatively small group who fervently, indeed religiously, believed in the curative power of good design when applied to all aspects of American life.


He was a generalist, and yet in the specific media in which he excelled he established standards that are viable today. If one were to reconstruct, based on photographs, Lustig's 1949 exhibition at The Composing Room Gallery in New York, the exhibits on view and the installation would be remarkably fresh, particularly in terms of the current trends in art-based imagery.

Lustig created monuments of ingenuity and objects of aesthetic pleasure. Whereas graphic design history is replete with artifacts that define certain disciplines and are also works of art, for a design to be so considered it must overcome the vicissitudes of fashion and be accepted as an integral part of the visual language.

Though Lustig would consider it a small part of his overall output, no single project is more significant in this sense than his 1949 paperback cover for Lorca: 3 Tragedies. It is a masterpiece of symbolic acuity, compositional strength and typographic craft that appears to be, consciously or not, the basis for a great many contemporary book jackets and paperback covers.

things most remarkable No.12 - for extra marks - what is it ? ... exactly.

One guess per customer, and remember
if you get it, you get to take the marks
off of someone who bugs you, or smells.

to all my favorito gellheads - big tina, louie louie, and
Mr.Fabio, this is what happens if you use too much gellatino.
Truth in advertising, veritas .

An innovative hoarding for Berger Paints where a live painter appeared
to be extending the blue of the sky on to the hoarding itself. This was done
by creating dramatic cut outs in the hoarding in the actual shape of the
roller strokes.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Mumbai, India
Copywriter / Art Director: Minal Phatak

D2 product/package design due in two weeks:
1.concept, 2.materials, 3.preperation, 4.execution
.... click image to supersize

some new graphics for Volkswagen in Europe, symbolic of their
new, enviromentally more sensitive technologies. aka BLUE MOTION

design one and two, please visit the website of Pascal
Trembley of Montreal. A young freelance graphic
designer living here in MTL with a wide, and international commercial experience.
This personal work is extraordinary; the subtle layers of image and story, the evocative textures, the compressed yet elegant colour palate, the studied position of all the elements.  Powerfully atmospheric, irresistibly secret. Brilliant,
brilliant work. click image to big it up

a "personal project" by young designer Ritxi Ostariz from Bilbao Spain,
check out his design work, paper engineering and short animation. Really
superb work, full of whit, charm and first class technical execution. Wow !

dont forget, don't forget, dunt firgit, huh ?


D!, design one ! don't forget !, your CD project is due this week !,
at the beginning of your class ! finished !, done !, tout garni !


check out this site http://www.invisiblecreature.com/main.php

CRISTIANA COUCEIRO IS A 32-YEAR OLD ILLUSTRATOR and graphic designer who lives in Lisboa, Portugal. She collage’s vintage/found materials with contemporary images, in the old-fashioned way — with glue and scissors !!!!! Jeez, she actually uses her hands. Whether she follows that hand work with scanning and digitizing the pieces seem likely, as the translucent, overlapping sections would be difficult otherwise. Cristiana has a unique and interesting style that looks deceptively effortless, a style that refers to the birth of modernism, and the collage work of Hanna Hock, Raoul Hausmann et al. It would be quite easy to over-do something like this—but she knows just when to stop. Her work has a beauty to it based on her own sense of mathematical formulas, grids, balance, vintage ephemera, typography and numerals. Software if there is any, is an inconsequential aspect to her work, her designs are about her imagination and her ability to see beyond the obvious, beyond the digital desktop. check out her fantastic work at http://setediasete.blogspot.com/


btw, her work reminds me of a talented former student, Miss Zarine Baloosh !

expression comes in as many forms as there are, and one of the wonderful things about a life of the mind, is that you never know where it will go, I think.

Notice! To all those completely crazy people who asked for letters of reference, help with letters of intent, etc. I'll be doing them this weekend, as soon as the medication wears off... 

design 1 & 2

interestingly, and as if somehow secretly synchronized ... , two former students e-mailed me virtually simultaneously with an item they both thought might interest me, or be of some use to my classes.

That they're both very talented young designers, and doing rather well further made me suspect a conspiracy of some kind ... regardless, here are the links, give the matter your due consideration and we will, in honour of Duc Tran and Mohammed Thiam, discuss the issue of " fair use " in class. Neglect at your peril.

http://blog.iso50.com/2009/02/06/ap-sues-shepard-fairey/ and http://www.printmag.com/design_articles/MiltonGlaseronShepardFairey/tabid/492/Default.aspx

According to AIGA, Graphic Design is explained as such: "Graphic designers work with drawn, painted, photographed, or computer-generated images (pictures), but they also design the letterforms that make up various typefaces found in movie credits and TV ads; in books, magazines, and menus; and even on computer screens. Designers create, choose, and organize these elements- typography, images, and the so-called "white space" around them- to communicate a message. Graphic design is a part of your daily life. From humble things like gum wrappers to huge things like billboards to the T-shirt you're wearing, graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure. Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience."

design one - quiz 2 - due next week.

1. The Panopticon of Jeremy Bentham and the Maison de Force at Ghent, inspired Havilland to design and build what ?

2. Traditionally what were fine papers made from ? How were they made ? What is an archival paper and what is tooth ? The density of paper, its mass, or thickness is described using what term ?

3. who are/were - Dieter Rams, Achille Castiglioni, and Charles Rennie Macintosh ?

4. William Klein, Richard Avedon, Duane Micheals and Irving Penn are renowned as photographic illustrators, what else do they all have in common ?

5. What was the "salon de refuses" ?

6. Who designed Kew Gardens in London and Central Park in Manhattan ?

British Design Classics,on stamps, click to visit London

Massimo Vignelli has published an amazing 96 page book on better
understanding typography in graphic design. Wonderful! The book is
available for free online in PDF format.

d2 - in reference towards your page/book design project and
designed typeset pages, do consider how type is used in the
following. groovy baby. remember my leetle monkeys, click
images to make more large

d2 please read the linked page for tomorrow, 

we'll be going over some of it in class. ici the link

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

design two, do not forget to bring your magazines to class next. Do consider your own project, ad nauseum -  how will it all be laid out ? What's its theme ? does it have a subtle visual architecture, and a elegant unified manner ? Perhaps not ... is it a riot of contradiction ? the content, is it singular and focused or illusory, an argument of form ? Does it have an recognizable attitude, perhaps a perspective ? Things to consider, be prepared ! dib dib dob ! work fast , work smart  !

my class outlines,

should you need them.

http://myclassoutlines.blogspot.com/

click on image to go to New York Times video, on kids faces
while they play video games, entitled " immersion"... priceless.

Fifty People, One Question: New York

Herb & Dorothy are like, totally, linked.