Paul Rand

Alexel Brodovitch

Gestalt Principles

This is an *amazing* read on the Gestalt principles used by Armin Hofmann and many others in the Swiss style.

Gestalt Principles Applied in Design

Review for Test #2

We'll be going over this material Tuesday. The test will be Thursday October 25.
8.13 Klimt, 1st Secessionist Exhibition poster

8.23 Behrens, AEG poster

9.5c Depero, Depero Futurista

9.8 Lissitzky, The isms of art

9.22b Bayer, alphabet

10.3a  Cassandre, sports cap ad

10.15a Beck, London Underground map
10.21b Tschichold, der burufsphotograph 

11.9c Rockwell, Four Freedoms 

11.9d Beall, REA poster

12.6 Cook and Shanosky, signage system

12.10 Odermatt, Schelling Bulletin

12.15 Hofmann, Herman Miller Collection ad 

13.1 DDB, LEMON Volkswagon ad

13.4a Glaser, Dylan poster

13.11b Moscoso, Grateful Dead poster

Terms to review:
art deco
streamlining
figuration
Suprematism
Constructivism
de Stijl
asymmetrical balance
Cubism
Futurism 
abstraction
propaganda
purism
plasticism 
Bauhaus
Formalism
Modernism

Thought You Might Enjoy a Tour of the MOMA...

Virtual MOMA

Prescription Bottle

Target made the prescription bottle much better for the customers 

Type Backspace

Thinking about revival of old styles of art reminded me of this video.
Tech Type Writer

I just thought this was cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZr0wiG1Hg

The One Club Creative Bootcamp
 The One Club is holding four-day "creative boot camps"  in New York, LA, Chicago, and Atlanta. Sign up to attend FOR FREE  at Morehouse College November 1 - 4. 

Creative Boot Camp is an intensive 4-day workshop introducing students to the creative side of advertising. Students work on behalf of a real client and follow steps outlined by the industry — receiving a brief, concepting, creating a campaign, and pitching it to a group of top industry creatives who determine the best work.

Who knows? You might be able to wrangle some extra credit for participating.

Neat Connection..

Hey, so during class today while we were looking at the different forms of writing, we looked at a slide that had letter forms with ligatures on it and it reminded me of some typography I saw while traveling in Colombia this year. Via de Leiva is an old city close to Bogota that I visited, and they had this sign. Most of the houses, buildings, and signs are originals and have been kept in really great shape from around a hundred years ago... Just wanted to see if anyone had any comments or was interested :)

René Magritte designed sheet music!

What's so universal about Universal Modernism?

at Swissted

I'd love your impressions of these, since they are mostly bands more popular in my youth than yours. It might be interesting to think of current musicians presented in this way.

Russian WWII posters and their creation

Site for show at Art Institute of Chicago shows how posters were stenciled

The Man Who Broke the Record on 'Let It Bleed'

In the New York Times this week

Photosynth = Muriel Cooper

Saul Bass

The Title Design of Saul Bass from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

http://www.artofthetitle.com

video: get more out of Lynda.com!

Saul Bass made the title sequence into a film star in the NYT

More Polish posters, if you like that sort of thing

Go to the movies; network; get extra credit!

Urbanized
Tue, Nov 8th @ Plaza Theater
7-9 pm
Members: $13 / Students $13
Join director Gary Hustwit and Urbanized cast member Ellen Dunham-Jones for a special preview screening and post-film discussion. Presented in association with AIGA Atlanta.
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world's population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns. Yet much of the dialogue on these issues is disconnected from the public domain.

This is cool.

Home depot April's fools day brand

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/home_depots_home_improvement.php

Information design in context

Obama Solicits Designers to Work - Unpaid - on ... Jobs Poster!

Note post below (March 10, 2008) which shows images in the Yavuz article more clearly

2rules gallery wants graphic design student work for December show

made up movie posters

Mondo, an offshoot of the Austin, Tex., theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, seeks to recapture the vintage, hand-drawn spirit of classic movie posters, while injecting some contemporary flair. It commissions artists to design alternative versions of posters for films considered cult or genre pictures

AIGA's Wither & Waltz

A Sustainable Costume Bash
Fri, Oct 28, 7 – 11 pm
Trees Atlanta Kendeda Center

Register today »
It goes without saying that designers are a bunch of creative folks. We know you can bang out a killer Halloween costume... But we challenge you to do it sustainably!
DJ Santiago Páramo will be spinning some killer tunes. There will be a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres, surprise entertainers to get your blood pumping, and we'll finish the night off with a cutthroat costume contest.

Prizes awarded in the following categories:
Best Use of Recyclables
Best Use of Organic Matter
Best Use of Paper
Best Overall
Everyone pre-registered and in costume will receive TWO FREE DRINK TICKETS! So get your creative juices flowing!

Sample test for study help

download the fake test

There is a word bank on page two, but try to answer all questions from your head before you go to the word bank or any other sources.
This is not the real test, just practice. During the real test next Tuesday I will project all the images.

Quick recap of modern movement

Pre-industrial: cultural products (buildings, furniture, clothing, music, art) from semi-skilled artisans and amateurs.

Late 19th century: professionalization of cultural production and de-skilling of other kinds of production.

Culture split between Fine Art, which is beautiful but useless,
and utilitarian goods, which are cheap and nasty. Explosion of Kitsch. The “Art Poster” and Arts and Crafts movements are attempts to bridge the gap.

20th Century Modernism: attempt to erase difference between “high” and “low” culture.
Produce utilitarian goods of highest quality in factories. Reject “art for art’s sake.” Advocate styles that can be produced, and used, by all people.

The Visual Language of Herbert Matter free at SCAD

But you have to register on the AIGA Atlanta site so go on and do it!Location: Room 4C SCAD Atlanta (I hear this is in the Digital Media Center)
Date: Thu, Sep 22
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
 

Moser for Ver Sacrum

I thought that this piece was interesting and beautiful. Mozer was working with type to make marks for the Ver Sacrum art magazine.

Koloman Moser, Initials for Ver Sacrum, 1898-1903.

Essay contest: short response to MS. Magazine covers

Ten $100 cash prizes will be awarded for the best short essays. Entries will be judged on originality, vision, awareness of feminist issues and quality of expression.

Contest will run from August 1, 2011 - October 15, 2011.

Upstaged by Design

First image is of Patrick Bateman's living room in "American Psycho" which includes Charles Renie Mackintosh's Hill House chair

TV people!

GSTV is looking for a Graphic Designer.
Knowledge in the following programs are EXTREMELY preferred.
Must know at least one of these programs: Photoshop, Flash Animation, and After Effects.

Please CONTACT our General Manager if you want to get an interview for this positon.
Contact: Generalmanager@gstvonline.org

How to send Tweets to this blog, and more!

Graphic disigner Jessica Hische explains and shows how it works!