The Legendary George Nelson On Creating A Design-Driven Company. In 1984, Herman Miller asked George Nelson to write an essay on the nature of his design relationship with Herman Miller.
Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing. In sexy fashion world, one designer covers up. Paula Scher: Do What You've Never Done Before. Sometimes you have to ignore the brief, says renowned designer and artist Paula Scher.
With a dry wit, Scher takes us behind-the-scenes on four landmark projects — from revamping MoMA’s identity to reinvigorating a Pittsburgh neighborhood through design — to illustrate how asking questions, pushing into uncharted territory, and doing something you’ve never done before leads to great work. For four decades Paula Scher has been at the forefront of graphic design. Iconic, smart and unabashedly populist, her images have entered into the American vernacular. Scher has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991.She began her career as an art director in the 1970’s and early 80’s, when her eclectic approach to typography became highly influential.
Grad shows 2012 review: Central St Martins. Central St Martins has a reputation from producing graphic design and illustration graduates who are brilliant, artsy and pretentious – with work to match.
But from this year's grad show – the first at architecturally wonderful new campus behind King's Cross Station – we saw work that was incredibly good but often conceptually clear and even *gulp* commercial. Illustration graduates seem to have fallen in love with Victoriana or hipster comics. There's much delicately beautiful 3D collages, alongside narrative work that wouldn't look out of place on the shelves of Nobrow.
The overarching influence of Apple's approach to product design permeated the graphic design section – and not just in the iPads and MacBook being used to display the work. Neat type and the glossiest black were everywhere – though much good work took a less traditional approach. Here's our pick of the best work, chosen by Digital Arts editor Neil Bennett and art editor Johann Chan. Free Range grad show report: Middlesex University, Havering College, UCA Maidstone. See the best graphic design and illustration work from this year's Free Range grad shows, featuring work from Middlesex University, Havering College and University of the Creative Arts, Maidstone.
On Friday night, Digital Arts strolled down to Brick Lane to check out design and illustration from this year's Free Range group grad show. No longer incorporating the D&AD's New Blood exhibition – which takes place across Commercial Street at Old Spitalfields Market June 27-28 – Free Range still includes the must-see grad show for Middlesex University's creative courses, plus great work from Havering College and the University of the Creative Arts, Maidstone. Q&A With Motion Designer Barton Damer.
Designer: Barton Damer; AlreadyBeenChewed.tv Specialty: design for new media, interactive, print and broadcast Location: Dallas, TX Under his studio moniker Already Been Chewed, Barton Damer designs in a variety of mediums for print, web, live productions and broadcast television.
His digital illustrations are influenced heavily by his motion work. He was named Digital Artist of the Year by Computer Arts Magazine, Intel and 3D World Magazine, and he’s the recipient of the Veer Creative Catalyst: Design for Change award that encourages artists to create for nonprofit organizations that are helping to do good around the world. Daniel Clowes, Krazy Kat, and Rory Hayes: New Books on Comics Masters. Not very long ago, a dedicated comics library might have looked less like a rare books room and more like a semi-coherent junk store, containing a three-dimensional scrapbook of out-of-print books, half-completed reprint series, miscellaneous small press magazines, bound photocopies, and endless clippings.
But the rise of the graphic novel category over the past decade has yielded a rich vein of previously rare or inaccessible archival material in well-designed, library-ready formats: complete comic strip collections, surveys of mid-century comic book genres, art books dedicated to historical and contemporary artists, and other rare pleasures. The cover of United Dead Artists/PictureBox's new Rory Hayes collection. The Bottle’s the Thing: The Branding Evolution of Soda Pop. A Pepsi-Cola serving tray circa 1940s My fascination with brand design started with the soda-pop realm.
I’d always loved leafing through old magazines and usually paid more attention to the advertising in them than the articles. On the Relationship Between Ego and Design. If I were to ask, I’d bet that most people would anticipate that technical difficulties—such things as programming and server-level configuration—would be the greatest challenge of web development.
Those things are certainly difficult, but they are rarely the greatest challenge. A Fanzine Editor’s 60-Year Love Affair with 1950s Comics. There’s this comic-book story about space aliens who try to save our planet from self-annihilation.
But they arrive too late: We’d already destroyed ourselves in an atomic war. They land their rocket ship on a chunk of a devastated earth and discover a science-fiction comic book amid the rubble. It contains a story about aliens who look exactly like them, who try to save the earth but arrive too late, and who discover a comic book. And on the last page they see a picture of themselves looking at a picture of themselves, looking, etc., ad infinitum. D’em Bones. What would you do with d’em extra shin bones, knee bones, bone bones?
The designer and photographer Francois Robert, who is known for capturing invisible alphabets on film (and digital matter), made them into a typeface. Classified Moto: A lamp in the next life. Marcel Breuer Digital Archive. Fuel Your Product Design. Michael Harvey’s Life of Letters. I have known Michael Harvey, the British book jacket designer / lettercutter / type designer, for nearly thirty years. And I have known his work for far longer, having first discovered it in Erik Lindegren’s ABC of Lettering and Printing Types (Askim, Sweden: Erik Lindegren Grafisk Studio, 1964–1965, 3 vols.) when I was a teenager. There his typeface Zephyr, done for Ludlow at the dusk of the metal era, was displayed along with a hand lettered greeting card. In the early 1980s I stumbled upon a number of Michael’s handlettered book jackets while preparing an anthology of such things (which never came to pass).
We became friends around that time as I helped arrange his first professional visit to New York City. How Walt Disney Used His Kansas City Library Card. “Animated Cartoons – How They Are Made Their Origin And Development” by E.G. Lutz 1920 (U.S. printing Charles Scribner’s Sons) When the word “Disney” is mentioned, it’s almost impossible to separate it from the craft of motion picture cartoons. Whether it’s used to describe a multinational entertainment corporation, or it alludes to Walt Disney the man, it’s easily synonymus with the technique of film animation. Industrial Design Sandbox. A Day in the Life of a Graphic Designer.
CocaColla.it - Story of a Brand. on the Behance Network. Student Showcase - Student Design Blog - Exhibiting the best student design work from around the world. - Part 14. Bona Fide Designed by Amy Nortman | Country: USA Bona Fide is a concept brand and product line that I named and created from scratch. As Albert Hurter Drew, He Pleased The Disney Artists Around Him. In 1948 Simon and Schuster published a book titled He Drew As He Pleased. It’s a tribute to Albert Hurter, an inspirational sketch artist who worked at the Walt Disney Studio from 1931 until his death in 1942.