Designers i missed

Storm Thorgerson- Storm Thorgerson is an interesting designer. The one thing i found interesting about Storm is that he rarely uses computers for his design. For example in the man on fire album for Pink Floyd the man is actually on fire when they take the picture. There is no photoshopping, even though it could be easily be done now a days. His style is interesting and very unique his ideas are ingenious and his designs show it.

The next designer is Nevil Brody. Nevil was influenced by Punk rock and he attended the London college of printing. Nevil has a unique sense of typography and he uses a lot of contrast with color. Which can be seen in Fuse magazine. Nevil has a no holding back no limitations attitude when it comes to design. And it is something that works for him.

Art Chantry is a graphic designer from Seattle. He is known for his logo designs. He has also done album cover for such bands for Nirvana, Hole, and The Sonics. He takes a "low-tech" approach to design. And I learned that his site is under construction and he is a book writer and he has a book called, some people cant surf:The Graphic design of Art Chantry.

Last Designer minus me

Kyle Cooper is a title sequence designer. He has done movies like Dawn of the Dead, Spiderman, and Se7ven, with more. His main influence was Sual Bass who was on the forefront of title sequence design. His typographic styles are a main part of his deigns. The combination of his typographic styles mixed with audio and abstract imagery help emphasize the feel of the moviee. For example in Se7en you have a very dark feel and scratchy looking type that goves the overall movie a dark feel.

next 3 designers

The first designer we started with was Stefan Sagameister. He is a designer with guts. Stefan thought out of the box and he barely ever used digital sources. He focused a lot on photography, and inventive use of typography. One example of how he thought out of the box was in a album cover he wrote the lyrics on the artists face and took a picture for the cover.

The next designer we talked about was Clement Mok. Clement was a variety of things he could be considered a "renaissance" man of the modern day. Clement style was focused on geometric lines, bold colors, artistic nature, curves, and hand drawn elements. He was well known for his creation of identity systems and logos.

The last designer was Leo Burnet. Leo made such recognizable images such as tony the tiger and toucan sam. We learned that his identity consists of apples and black pencils. Which relates to his style. He started off with a lot of hand drawn elements and no one thought he would make it in the business which explains why he has apples. The apples are a story of his success because he was told he was going to fail but he didn't so he has apples to remind people that he made it.

3rd group of designers

The other day we talked about three designers who all had typography in common. The first designer was Tibor Kalman. One style that i noticed about Tibor's style is that he used type just like the futuristic style. He would express ideas using text or would use text to express objects. For example in one of his posters he used type to express all the objects in the poster design.

The second designer we learned about was David Carson. David Carson is a designer with no formal education. David Carson uses text in new and unusual ways. His layouts have no grid system or formal layout. David states that "legibility should not be mistaken for communication." So his designs are usually chaotic with a large focus on the typography in the design.

The last designer Mathew Carter is known more for his typography skills rather then his designs. One design/font Carter created was the Bell Centennial font used in phonebooks. The font had ink traps in the family to make the print more legible when printed on low quality paper. He is well known for his font designs and is very popular with many clients.

first 3 designers

The other day in class we talked about 3 designers, April Greiman, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. April was a designer that embraced "New Wave Design" she was very experimental with her designs and she had had a slight hint of swiss design in her work. April used various experimental typefaces along with different angles in her work. What was interesting about her is that she started designing without computers and then she was on the forefront of using computers for design so she has all aspects of design under her belt. The Second designer we heard about was Milton Glaser. Milton used different design principles and is known for one of the most produced designs ever; the i love New York design. He also is responsible for the Bob Dylan designs. He was influenced by Art Novoue and Pop art along with comic books. The last designer was Seymour Chwast. Seymour uses a lot of hand drawn elements in his designs. He was one of the founders of push pin studios. He focused on one large illustration that your eye focuses to with typography and other elements on the sides.