Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Neville broody

I like the use of just 3 colours, the red white and back make a statment, also how the image is being looked down onto.
I like this piece because the typeface is allthe same however it has been made smaller in parts and placed in different positions.

Neville Brody has been a British Designer and art director for over two decades now. Starting of working in record cover design, Brody made his name largely through his work as a Art Director for the Face magazine, also international magazines such as; City Limits, Lei, Per Lui, Actuel and Arena.
Brody has pushed boundries of visual communication in all media through his experimental and challenging work. In 1988 Brody published his first two monographs, which became the world’s best selling graphic design book.
In 1994 Brody with his business partner launched Research Studios in London, and then in Paris and Berlin. There clients offer a range of work from web to retail.

Ronald Searle

'Baby seal under the impression that clubs are the centres of social activity'
'Capricorn' Signed, titled & dated 1977Pencil, pen and black ink, crayon and watercolour

Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and was educated there at the Cambridge School of Art. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers and in 1942 was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. He is a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist. As well as his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books and his invention of St Trinians, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the world and appears in several major American and European collections. He moved to Paris in 1961 and then, in 1975, to a remote village in Haute-Provence, where he still lives.

Ross Collins

Ross Collins


ross collins
Ross was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1972.He would eat anything and resembled a currant bun.
As he grew up he was fond of drawing, the Bionic Man and precariously swinging backwards on chairs.
He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1994 with a First in Illustration. In the same year he won the MacMillan Children's Book Prize an achievement that opened many doors in the Big Smoke.
Ross then spent two years in London cultivating an exotic image of the scribbling Scotsman abroad.
Longing for the cold and damp of the North, Ross returned to Glasgow, where he spends his time writing and illustrating children's books, doing animation character development, walking the dug by the banks of Loch Lomond and precariously swinging backwards on chairs.

Yugo Nakamura




Yugo Nakamura Multimedia Designer (1970-)


One of the world's most innovative web designers, YUGO NAKAMURA (1970-) is renowned for the wit and complexity of the interactive animations he creates for his personal sites.
is one of the most interesting talents of today's digital design field.
His work is based on a constant research in the interface enviroment. In july 2000 he presented his work to huge acclaim at flashforward2000 in nyc.nakamura studied engineering, architecture and landscape design. After graduating he worked as an engineer specialising in bridge design. He now works in interface design with 'business architects inc.' In tokyo and during his personal time he's involved with 'MONO*crafts'.He has also been active with projects like 'gasbook'and 'the remedi project'.

Why Not Associates


project description- interior graphics at nike's new store on the champs elysees in paris. the project includes a typographic lift, graphic shoe walls, a display of historic nike t-shirts, changing room graphics and interior glass walls with graphic images.
The is a movie for this at why not associates website.

Why Not Associates

project description- identity and design for quarterly magazine and dvd published by xtreme information. contagious is a subscription only title, which reports on the most innovative work in marketing and advertising.
project description- a title sequence for the second bbc robin hood series.


project description- promotional material for the barbican's international theatre season.


Branding.



Why Not Associates



why not associates is a british graphic design company with global reach. They turn there passion for design into commercial success for clients in business, government and the public sector.



why not associates has been creating innovative work for clients large and small. There team works in many different media on many types of projects, including digital design, motion graphics and television commercial direction, editorial design, environmental design, publishing, and public art.
They do work for global brands such as nike, first direct bank, virgin records and the bbc. Also smaller locally based commissions such as public relations for regional government and public art installations for specific communities, regardless what size.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

tomato

Found when searching tomato

Penagram

Packaging design for a range of advanced skin care productsfor one of the world’s leading spas.
Flagship store on London’s Regent Street for H&M’s premium fashion brand.

Pentagram
Pentagram is organised and run so that Designers may achieve their best- because design at its best satisfies clients, pleases users and gratifies the designer.

They design print and screen graphics, product, environment and buikdings.

It offers design services across full spectrum of graphics, identify, architecture, interiors and products.



http://www.pentagram.com/

Monday, January 7, 2008

Saul Bass




Title sequence for
GoodFellas, 1990
SAUL BASS (1920-1996) was not only one of the great graphic designers of the mid-20th century but the undisputed master of film title design thanks to his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Martin Scorsese.
1920 Saul Bass is born in the Bronx district of New York
1936 Wins a scholarship to study at the Art Students' League in Manhattan
1938 Employed as an assistant in the art department of the New York office of Warner Bros
1944 Joins the Blaine Thompson Company, an advertising agency, and enrolls at Brooklyn College, where he is taught by the émigré Hungarian designer and design theorist Gyorgy Kepes
1946 Moves to Los Angeles to work as an art director at the advertising agency, Buchanan and Company
1952 Opens his own studio, named Saul Bass & Associates in 1955
1954 Designs his first title sequence for Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones
1955 Creates titles for Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife and Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch. The animated sequence he devises for Preminger’s The Man with a Golden Arm causes a sensation
1956 Elaine Makatura joins the studio as an assistant
1957 Devises titles for Michael Anderson’s Around The World in 80 Days and Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse
1958 Forges a new collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock by designing the titles for Vertigo. Works with the architects Buff, Straub & Hensman on the design of his home, Case Study House #20 in Altadena
1959 Creates the title sequences for Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder
1960 First title commission for Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus, and the last for Hitchcock, Psycho
1962 Devises titles for Edward Dmytryk’s Walk on the Wild Side and directs his first short film, Apples and Oranges. Marries Elaine Makatura1963 Stanley Kramer commissions Bass to create titles for It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1966 Directs the racing sequences and devises the titles for John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix
1968 Wins an Oscar for the short film Why Man Creates and develops a corporate identity programme for the Bell System telephone company. Creates an installation for the Milan Triennale, which is cancelled after a student occupation
1973 Designs the corporate identity of United Airlines
1974 Directs his first feature film Phase IV
1980 Designs the poster for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and devises the corporate identity of the Minolta camera company
1984 Creates a poster for the Los Angeles Olympic Games
1987 James L. Brooks persuades Bass to return to title design by creating the opening sequence of Broadcast News
1990 Begins a long collaboration with Martin Scorsese by creating the titles for GoodFellas
1991 Devises the titles for Scorsese’s Cape Fear and a poster for the 63rd Academy Awards. Bass designs the Academy Awards poster for the next five years.
1993 Creates the title sequence for Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence and a poster for Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List
1995 Designs titles for Scorsese’s Casino
1996 Saul Bass dies in Los Angeles of non-Hodgkins lymphoma

Peter Saville







Peter Saville


Peter Saville was born in 1955, he studied Graphic Design at Manchester Polytechnic University, from 1974-1978.
He was obsessed with rock music, photography Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin.Peter Saville has a Modernist style. He has made key innovations in the field of visual communications, and in recent times he has had a profound effect on the interplay between art, design and advertising.
Saville's first contract was a poster for his alternative Factory Club in Manchester.
Saville started creating a new style of factory deisn, he produced covers for Joy Division, from which New Order were later to emerge, which made him famous. This style distinguished itself by a down-to-earth, "post" modern appearance.


Through his work he has impressed a Pop culture that sees itself as the dissolution of the emotionally charged, hippy fashion, proclaiming a strong emphasis on the superficial and a "cold" style.