Alan Kitching. Bob Gill. Alan Fletcher. Alan Fletcher Graphic Designer (1931-2006) Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work (and play) 11 November 2006 - 18 February 2007 Designed to be opened at random, The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher’s 2001 book, is an unfailing source of wit, elegance and inspiration. At over a thousand pages, it is a spectacular treatise on visual thinking, one that illustrates the designer’s sense of play and his broad frame of reference. While designers and design students rifle through its pages for ideas, others enjoy its gently provocative mind-teasers. Alan Fletcher is one of the most influential figures in post-war British graphic design. Born to a British family in Kenya 1931, Fletcher came to Britain as a five year-old after his father became terminally ill to be bought up by his mother and grandparents in West London.
During the 1950s he attended four different art schools, each one more forward looking and cosmopolitan than the last. In 1991, Fletcher decided to leave Pentagram. David carson. Wim Crouwel. Work[edit] In addition to his work as a graphic designer, he was also active in the educational field. In the 1950s he worked as a teacher at the Royal Academy for Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch (currently called Akademie Voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost or AKV|St. Joost) and at the predecessor of what is now the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Between 1965 and 1985 he was connected to the department of industrial design of the Delft University of Technology. From 1987 to 1993 he was extraordinary professor in the fields of History, Arts and Culture Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
In the years 1985–1993 he was the director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Awards[edit] 1958 and 1966 – De H.N. Literature[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Ed fella. Alison Carmichael. Marian Bantjes. Katherine mccoy. Katherine McCoy was born in Decatur, Illinois, in 1945. She studied industrial design at Michigan State University before joining Unimark International in 1967.
She went on to work at Chrysler Corporation and Omnigraphics, Inc. In 1971, McCoy became co-chair, with her husband Mike McCoy, of the design department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which they continued to direct until 1995. By the 1980s, their sometimes controversial programme had established itself as one of the most innovative in American design education, producing a stream of graduates who have gone on to make their own mark in the profession. Their company, McCoy & McCoy, has worked in two- and three- dimensional projects for Formica, Xerox, Unisys, MIT Press, Philips, Tobu Stores Tokyo and other clients. McCoy is a past president and fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America and an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. Rick Poynor: What attracted you to design?
KM: Yes, and I still do! April greiman. Jeff keedy. An Interview with Mr. Keedy By Michael Dooley This interview was first published in 1994 in Emigre #30. Michael Dooley: Judging from past issues of Emigre in which you were mentioned, it appears that the proper way to refer to you is "Mr. Mr. MD: Do you consider your work to be pretentious? MrK: [laughs] Sometimes, probably. MD: What about Lushus? MrK: That typeface was done in a very specific context. But of course most people didn't do that. The weird thing about Heller's "Cult of the Ugly" article for Eye is that he talked about me as if he were showing my work, which he wasn't. That's the other thing that happens: you just get lumped in as if you're all the same, when in fact you're not. MD: Steve has written quite a bit about graphic design over the years and is actively involved with many aspects of it. MrK: Yes, definitely. But, although I am critical of some of Heller's writing, I am glad that he has done so much of it, and I certainly hope he continues to do more.
MrK: Yeah. Piet Zwart. Piet Zwart (Zaandijk, 28 May 1885 – Wassenaar, 24 September 1977) was a Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer. Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Piet Zwart was a Dutch designer born on May 28, 1885 in Zaandijk, North Holland. He had trained as an architect, and began graphic design projects at age thirty-six. His training as architect included designing furniture and interiors. He worked in Jan Wils' architectural office from 1891-1972. His architectural design moved towards a more functional design after he worked with De Stijl in 1919. Education[edit] Zwart began his education at the School of Applied Arts in Amsterdam 1902. Later life[edit] In 1930, Piet Zwart was asked to do the design for "The Book of PTT Zwart's ideas were very similar to the methods and goals of the Bauhaus School in Dessau. Zwart's design career came to a halt when he was arrested by German soldiers in 1942. Piet Zwart died at the age of 92 in 1977.
Design Style[edit] letterhead for Jan Wils, 1921. Eric Gill. Edward Johnston. Edward Johnston, 1902 Early life[edit] The family returned to England in 1875. With his father seeking work, and his mother ill, Johnston was raised by an aunt. He was educated at home, and enjoyed mathematics, technology, and creating illuminated manuscripts.
His mother died in 1891, and he began to work for an uncle. He spent some time studying medicine at Edinburgh University but did not complete the course. After his mother's death, his father was remarried, to a sister of Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers. Career[edit] After studying published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, and a handbook by Edward F. He has also been credited for reviving the art of modern penmanship and lettering single-handedly through his books and teachings. Private life[edit] He met Greta Grieg, a Scottish schoolmistress, in 1900, and they were married in 1903. Publications[edit] Johnston Sans printing blocks Johnston, Edward (1995).
References[edit] Further reading[edit] Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. Monument for the 10 executed by the Gestapo. Werkman was a member of the artists' group De Ploeg ("The Plough"), for which he printed posters, invitations and catalogues. From 1923 to 1926, he produced his own English-named avant-garde magazine The Next Call, which, like other works of the period, included collage-like experimentation with typefaces, printing blocks and other printers' materials. He also used stenciling and stamping to achieve unique effects. He would distribute the magazine by exchanging it for works by other avant-garde artists and designers throughout Europe. In May 1940, soon after the German invasion of the Netherlands, Werkman, together with his friend August Henkels and others, began publishing a series of Hassidic stories from the legend of the Baal Shem Tov through their clandestine publishing house De Blauwe Schuit ("The Blue Barge").
One of the main municipal secondary schools in the city of Groningen, the H.N. References[edit] Martinet, Jan. Armin Hofmann. Armin Hofmann (HonRDI) (born June 29, 1920)[1] is a Swiss graphic designer. He began his career in 1947 as a teacher at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel School of Art and Crafts at the age of twenty-six. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design) and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style. His teaching methods were unorthodox and broad based, setting new standards that became widely known in design education institutions throughout the world.
His independent insights as an educator, married with his rich and innovative powers of visual expression, created a body of work enormously varied - books, exhibitions, stage sets, logotypes, symbols, typography, posters, sign systems, and environmental graphics. He was also an influential educator, retiring in 1987. In 1965 he wrote the Graphic Design Manual, a popular textbook in the field. Wolfgang weingart. Peter saville. Neville Brody. Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957 in London) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.[1] Early life and education[edit] Neville Brody was born in Southgate, London on 23 April 1957. He attended Minchenden Grammar school and studied A-Level Art, very much from a fine art viewpoint.
In 1975 Brody went on to do a Fine Art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art, once renowned for its late sixties agitation, now part of Middlesex University. In autumn 1976, Brody started a three-year B.A. course in graphics at the London College of Printing. In spite of the postage stamp episode, Brody was not only motivated by the energies of punk. 1980-1993[edit] 1994 to present[edit] Neville Brody still also continues to work as a graphic designer and together with business partner Fwa Richards launched his own design practice, Research Studios, in London in 1994.
Typography[edit] Work[edit] Music[edit] Fetish Records[edit] Art Director (1980) Cabaret Voltaire[edit] Other[edit] Misc[edit] Bob Cobbing. Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. Early life[edit] Cobbing was born in Enfield and grew up within the Plymouth Brethren.
He attended Enfield Grammar School and then trained as an accountant. He later went to Bognor Training College to become a teacher. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector. Early involvement with poetry and performance[edit] His involvement with performance began with the Hendon Experimental Art Club and the Hendon-based magazine And in 1951.
Better Books[edit] He left teaching around this time and managed Better Books on Charing Cross Road, London. This shop was the venue for a number of events and happenings associated with what Cobbing's friend Jeff Nuttall termed the Bomb Culture, the British version of the 1960s counterculture. The 1970s[edit] In the early 1970s the Poetry Society did not have any printing facilities. Stéphane Mallarmé. Biography[edit] On 10 August 1863, he married Maria Christina Gerhard. Their daughter, (Stéphanie Françoise) Geneviève Mallarmé, was born on 19 November 1864. Mallarmé died in Valvins (present-day Vulaines-sur-Seine) September 9, 1898. Style[edit] Some[who?] Consider Mallarmé one of the French poets most difficult to translate into English.[2] The difficulty is due in part to the complex, multilayered nature of much of his work, but also to the important role that the sound of the words, rather than their meaning, plays in his poetry.
Influence[edit] General poetry[edit] Stéphane Mallarmé as a faun, cover of the literary magazine Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, 1887. Man Ray's last film, entitled Les Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mystery of the Chateau of Dice) (1929), was greatly influenced by Mallarmé's work, prominently featuring the line "A roll of the dice will never abolish chance". Un Coup de Dés[edit] Mallarmé during his career. Works[edit] References[edit] Sources[edit] Further reading[edit] Eugen Gomringer. Eugen Gomringer, Switzerland | b. 1925 The Book of Hours and Constellations [PDF, 111k] Something Else?
Press, 1968. Edited by Jerome Rothenberg. UbuWeb facsimile edition edited and redacted by Lucia della Paolera. Designed by Irina Cocimarov. Individual Concrete Poems Silencio Ping-Pong Wind o avenidas As Editor Eugen Gomringer (ed.): konkrete poesie: deutschsprachige autoren (1972) [PDF, 8mb] With: Friedrich Achleitner, Max Bense, Claus Bremer, Reinhard Döhl, Heinz Gappmayr, Eugen Gomringer, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Ernst Jandl, Kurt Marti, Hansjörg Mayer, Franz Mon, Diter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Konrad-Balder Schäuffelen, André Thomkins, Timm Ulrichs und Wolf Wezel. "From Line to Constellation" (1954) in UbuWeb Papers "Concrete Poetry (1956)" in UbuWeb Papers "Max Bill and Concrete Poetry" (1958) in UbuWeb Papers "The Poem as Functional Object" (1960) in UbuWeb Papers "Concrete Poetry: A World View : Switzerland" in UbuWeb Papers UbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb PennSound | CENTRO | EPC | WFMU.
Guillaume Apollinaire. Guillaume Apollinaire (French: [ɡijom apɔlinɛʁ]; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918), born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent. Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38. Life[edit] Apollinaire in 1914 Apollinaire, 1902, Cologne Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was born in Rome, Italy and raised speaking French, Italian and Polish.[1] He emigrated to France in his late teens and adopted the name Guillaume Apollinaire.
His mother, born Angelika Kostrowicka, was a Polish noblewoman born near Navahrudak, Grodno Governorate (present-day Belarus). Apollinaire eventually moved from Rome to Paris[2] and became one of the most popular members of the artistic community of Paris (both in Montmartre and Montparnasse). Late 1909 or early 1910, Metzinger painted a cubist portrait of Apollinaire. Works[edit] Poetry[edit]