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Also last week I missed posting about another lecture I had at uni, this time from illustrator and artist Paul Davis, very enjoyable lecture! He is a really funny guy, enthusiastic with very witty humorous work. Lots of interesting stories from his long career as well. You can see a bit of video of him talking from D&AD here and here.
Not much of his work came up on a google search, so if you want to see more try and figure out his quite weird website http://www.copyrightdavis.com/
Tomorrow I have another lecture, someone from the brilliant Studio8. So expect a post about that…
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I missed posting about a few things last week while I was doing my Mid-Century Modern themed week.
The first was a lecture from Fraser Muggeridge, who is a designer and artist who runs his own studio mainly designing for artists, doing things like books, posters, catalogues, invites, leaflets and booklets. His style of work isn’t totally to my tastes, but I do appreciate it and enjoyed him sharing his process and methodology, great eye for typography!
I think the most interesting thing for me was the problems of designing for artists and the art world as clients, he has to work to a certain style that compliments the work of the artist and is aesthetically right but doesn’t steal the limelight. If your at all interested in graphic design for the art world definitely check out his work; http://pleasedonotbend.co.uk/
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Did you enjoy my week of themed posts?
Should I do it again ever? or just stick to posting whatever whenever? Always wonder whether I should add a little bit more structure to my blog. Anyway thanks for following everyone.
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Today I handed in my 5000 word dissertation! Glad its finally done, this will be the last post of my Mid-Century Modern themed week. Normal posting will resume tomorrow.
Here are some assorted Mid-Century Modern record covers. The top two are designed by Robert M. Jones, then below them are Abner Graboff, Ken Deardoff and John Vidnic, then the next two bigger ones are by Gerry Gersten. Of the bottom 3 the first two are unknown and the Song of Norway was designed by Malcolm Binding. Most of these pictures were found on Mid-Centuria I think, but you can find all the specific sources on the blog below.
You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/ (I may still update it from time to time)
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I’ve now completely finished my 5000 word dissertation! Printed and bound too (here it is) ready to hand in monday morning! But anyway I’ll keep posting some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching, because I said I’d have a Mid-Century Modern themed week.
Book illustrations by Abner Graboff, seems he mainly illustrated for books but he also did some record covers too. The illustrator Ward Jenkins on his blog Ward-O-Matic had a post about Abner Graboff which he then followed up by interviewing his son; Jon Graboff in two parts which you can read here and here, very interesting stuff! Ward also has a flickr set full of work by Graboff.
You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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I’ve now completely finished my 5000 word dissertation! Printed and bound too (here it is) ready to hand in monday morning! But anyway I’ll keep posting some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching, because I said I’d have a Mid-Century Modern themed week.
The First Book of Jazz by Langston Hughes, Illustrated by Cliff Roberts. Can’t seem to find out much more about Cliff Roberts, I think he worked in animation too, but this book looks so nice. Love the illustrations and that orange cover! These pictures are from here (german version) & here, the are loads more here on the flickr of brilliant book designer David Pearson.
You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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I’ve now completely finished my 5000 word dissertation! Printed and bound too (here it is) ready to hand in monday morning! But anyway I’ll keep posting some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching, because I said I’d have a Mid-Century Modern themed week.
Book covers designed by Paul Rand, probably one of the most famous graphic designers of all time so I won’t bother saying more about him. What I will say is that I really like his book covers, and his illustration style was lovely, check out the stork on the first cover! These images are from Scott Lindberg on flickr, who has a whole set of Rand covers among lots of other brilliant pieces of vintage design. If you want to find out more about Paul Rand the best book about him is probably this one.
You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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I’ve now completely finished my 5000 word dissertation! Printed and bound too (here it is) ready to hand in monday morning! But anyway I’ll keep posting some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching, because I said I’d have a Mid-Century Modern themed week.
Record covers by designer/illustrator Jim Flora, who worked for Columbia in the 1940s and RCA in the 1950s. Very prolific and one of the first designers after Alex Steinweiss to work on graphical record sleeves. His artistic and illustrative style fell out of fashion unfortunately when photography became more common. Interestingly if you do a google image search for Jim Flora one of the related searches is Jon Burgerman, definite similarities between their work, I had never made a connection between them before. You can see more Jim Flora designs on his website http://jimflora.com/ or in the book The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora.
You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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As I’m currently very close to finishing my 5000 word dissertation, which is mainly about Mid-Century Modern graphic design, I’ve decided to dedicate all my blog posts this week to some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching.
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Up today is Czech author/illustrator Miroslav Sasek, aka M.Sasek. Best know for his amazing series of This is… children’s books which each feature one city or country. Totally love his style, always been a fan of his work since my uncle showed me his This is Edinburgh book. You can find out more on the brilliant website about him This is M. Sasek. Also lots of his books have been reprinted recently, which you can see here.
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You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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As I’m currently very close to finishing my 5000 word dissertation, which is mainly about Mid-Century Modern graphic design, I’ve decided to dedicate all my blog posts this week to some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching.
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If you have never seen the book covers of Alvin Lustig your really missing out! He was a pioneering graphic designer in his short life before he died aged 40 in 1955, the style he was developing in his work during the 1940’s paved the way for the graphical aesthetic of the 1950’s. His Kafka cover above from 1946 is a real favorite of mine too. You can find out more about Lustig on his website, or in the recent and lovely book - Born Modern: The life and design of Alvin Lustig. Plus there are lots of his book covers in this flickr set from Scott Lindberg.
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You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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As I’m currently very close to finishing my 5000 word dissertation, which is mainly about Mid-Century Modern graphic design, I’ve decided to dedicate all my blog posts this week to some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching.
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Charley Harper was an American illustrator and artist, I absolutely love his work! He called his style “minimal realism”, still looks very contemporary and modern. You can buy prints of his work here and find out more about his work in the great book Charley Harper an Illustrated Life
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You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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As I’m currently very close to finishing my 5000 word dissertation, which is mainly about Mid-Century Modern graphic design, I’ve decided to dedicate all my blog posts this week to some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching.
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Up today is British textile designer Lucienne Day, who is most known for her pattern Calyx created for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Lucienne and her husband Robin were sort of like a British equivalent of Charles and Ray Eames. Lots of creative couples in Mid-Century Modern, not sure why… You can find out more in the book Robin & Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design
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You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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As I’m currently very close to finishing my 5000 word dissertation, which is mainly about Mid-Century Modern graphic design, I’ve decided to dedicate all my blog posts this week to some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching.
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First up is Swedish graphic designer and illustrator Olle Eksell. Not much of his work on the internet unfortunately, but you can see lots more lovely illustrations in the book Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer.
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You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
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Posters by illustrator Jean Jullien, created for Troll Slayer, a new EP by his brothers electronic band Niwouinwouin. Jean does all the art direction, then together as The Jullien Brothers they direct the music video.
In the Troll Slayer video the posters above animate and come to life, a really neat idea. Looks awesome. I like the song too, even though its a bit weird, very catchy…
Previous blog posts about Jean Jullien can be seen here
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Wandering Territory by artist Anna Garforth.
“In Wandering Territory, a 3D digital model of a brown bear was converted into a 2D cardboard template before it was popped back into a sculptural form. its polygon sides unfloding like a map, illustrating the idea of migration and the contrast of the urban world against the curious animal’s natural habitat.”
Found Via Design Bridge Blog
