Monday, February 28, 2011
Mike svoboda
Stefan Sagmeister
"Over time i get used to
everything and start
taking it for granted"
Born 1962 in Bregenz, Austria
New York based designer, started Sagmeister inc. in 1993
Teaching in the graduate department of school in visual arts in New York. And publishing 2 books, Things i have learned in my life, and Made you look. Remaining small has been the key to retaining his integrity as a designer making ideas happen
" Design that needed guts from the creator still
carries the ghost of these guts in final execution"
Design album covers for groups such as Lou Reed, Ok Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith, and Pat Metheny. Sagmeister goes on year long Sabbatical around every seven years. He does not take work from clients as tempting as it may get, even declining an offer designing a poster for Barack Obama
The Darwin chair comprised of more than 200 sheets of attached Tyvek prints. Each sheet can be torn off as it wears. Designed by Stefan for the Dutch company Droog.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/10527/stefan-sagmeister-darwin-chair.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Sagmeister
http://www.ted.com/speakers/stefan_sagmeister.html
http://www.sagmeister.com/work/all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZp-H9g_jeY
David Carson - LOGOS - SAM
http://meetingdali.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-dali-museum-logo-remains-offensive.html
http://www.davidcarson.com/design/logos.html
http://magicseaweed.com/David-Carson-designs-new-Magicseaweed-Logo-Article/291/
http://logoblink.com/2009/04/20/4-yes-logos/DAvid CArSon LoGo'S
Color is yellow because it’s a part of rebranding work for Western Union. Western Union helps you provide for your loved ones almost anywhere in the world. Whether it's for education, healthcare or groceries, we offer Consumer-to-Consumer Money-Transfer Services to get resources to members of your family quickly.
http://corporate.westernunion.com/
Carson has been working in conjunction with the MagicSeaweed team to evolve a logo that really reflects the nature of the site. The logo that David has designed, pictured above, is firmly rooted in the aesthetics of the ocean. For instance, in David's own words, the 's' helps to create the motion of the sea, even the fold of a wave. The logo also has practical aspects. Recognisable both up close and from a distance, and is useable in all sizes. According to David, placing one letter on its side bring a pleasant tension, drawing the viewer into the logo and the site. The new logo goes live this week, making MagicSeaweed even more recognisable as the unique resource that it is.
Danni/AlanFletcherLogos
ALAN FLETCHER LOGOS
Describing himself as a ‘visual jackdaw’, Alan Fletcher distilled a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and value.
His mixed media pastiche style helped Alan Fletcher to built up a formidable body of work and was behind many masterpieces such as the iconic V&A logo:
David Carson is an American graphic designer .He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated
Michelle - Paul Rand Logos
"Ultimately, the only mandate in the design of logos, it seems, is that they be distinctive, memorable, and clear."
Debbie - Milton Glaser Logos
Irene - Paul Rand Trademarks and Logo Designs
1. Typography:
Paul Rand’s distinctive style was a result of his talent and extensive design education. It inspired his success at the merger of modern typography with nineteenth-century engravings. Rand strove to unite letters, finding unique graphic ways of bringing together letters of a word (name or title of a person or entity). And he excelled at that, as seen in his logos for IBM, EF and Yale University Press.
Typography was one of his strongest command areas, and with his impeccable understanding of both visual content (image/illustration) and technical content (typography/typeface), he produced designs which lasted decades. Balance, uniformity and equilibrium of spacing were the three common elements of Paul Rand’s typography related work.
2. Simplicity:
Simplicity was a common element of everything and anything Paul Rand created, whether it was a page design, a magazine cover, an ad, or a logo. And everyone loved it. He was always of the opinion that the design of a logo must be simple, in order to appeal aesthetically.
3. Rebellion:
In the 1940s, Paul Rand broke away from the conventional standards of typography and layout, and started incorporating Swiss style of design into his creations. He merged American visual culture into European avant-garde (modern art) design, integrating Cubism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus and De Stijl into his work.
Poster for the New York Subways Advertising Company, designed by Paul Rand in 1947.
Poster for the UCLA, designed by Paul Rand in 1996, one of the last creations before his death.
CORPORATE IDENTITY DESIGNS:
The most important achievement on Paul Rand’s portfolio is in the area of Corporate Identity Design and logotypes. His talent and excellent execution was apparent in the logos he designed for many firms from a broad range of industries like IBM, Apple, UPS, ABC Television, NeXT, Enron, the Cummins Engine Company, El Producto Cigar Company, Compton Advertising and Westinghouse Electric Corporation and many more.
ABC Designed 1962
“Should a logo be self-explanatory? It is only by association with a product, a service, a business, or a corporation that a logo takes on any real meaning. It derives its meaning and usefulness from the quality of that which it symbolizes. If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.”
IBM
Designed 1962
“A logo does not sell (directly), it identifies.”
UPS
Designed 1961
“I do not use humour consciously, I just go that way naturally. A well known example is my identity for United Parcels Service: to take an escutcheon – a medieval symbol which inevitably seems pompous today – and then stick a package on top of it, that is funny.”
http://www.logodesinglove.com/all-about-paul-rand