Graphic designer

In 2002, The American Council of the Blind sued the United States Government for discrimination because the size and feel of American banknotes are identical regardless of their face value. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in 2008 (The American Council of the Blind v. Paulson). The case struck me when I first heard it, and I am still fascinated by it. It sparked an epiphany in terms of my own creativity; it’s dangerous to follow repetitive routine blindly. I discovered my passion for…

technological advancement, with its ability to digitally re-contextualize the written word. The web generated an outburst in production, self-published content, and fresh forms of machine designs. John Allsopp’s prescient quote “The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility” sustain the…

Substrates brochure is a well designed piece. This brochure contains many qualities of a good design; such as repetition, contrast, flow, and an organized, grid-like structure. The design of this brochure fulfills the many topics we have covered in the Graphic Design 1 class. The very first thing that I noticed when I picked up the brochure was the use of negative space on the cover. Mohawk’s brochure title is in a grey typeface, inside of a white circle, but the circle is surrounded by color.…

Charles Kid better known as Chip Kidd is an American graphic designer, author and editor, who are known for his graphic designs on book covers. He is 51 years old and he was born in Pennsylvania on September 12, 1964. Kidd grew up basically being inspired by American pop culture, especially batman. When Chip grew up he attended Pennsylvania State University. After he graduated from the graphic design program, he went and got hired at Knopf publishing house as a junior assistant in 1986. As he…

David Carson 50 is a well-known graphic designer, art director and surfer. He is renowned for his “Grunge typography”. breaking the rules and grids. His experimental typography and magazine design inspire young designers. He is a pioneer of an aesthetic called “Grunge typography”. Early life 200 David Carson started his career as a graphic designer relatively late. He actually was not majored at graphic design or any related major first. He studied sociology at San Diego State University and…

Reilly Salness Art History Topic 1 Throughout the centuries, graphic design influenced society in a variety of ways. The influence evolved through the usage of posters, magazine design, concert posters, and music cover art. In the 1960’s young designers began to reject the social norms. They perceived their parents’ style to be outdated and developed their own style, psychedelia. This art movement with its distortions and bright colors drew its inspiration from the usage of psychedelic drugs…

1959 in Concord, Massachusetts. She was a promising student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Before becoming a typographer, she was a sculpture, but later on she decided to go into graphic design because it was more practical course to study for her. She studied under the type designer Charles Bigelow, the designer of Lucida, Apple Geneva and Wingdings. Bigelow’s work interested and influenced her work as a typographer. In 1988, Twombly joined Adobe where she contributed to the design of…

realise the designer lust for the tool. A good masking defines good and efficient editing. Importance of Masking Masking, for a graphic designer is something like water and oxygen for life. Most of the wedding albums and other edited images follow use of this tool. The tool has several benefits of itself over other methods of creating the same effect. A great graphic designer once said “Worth doing things in life need layer masks almost all the time”. This shows the love of designers for the…

My hopes were to get accepted in the automotive transport design course there, but as I progressed into the foundation year I realised that I was much more interested in making “print stuff” as I called it back then. During my first year of graphic design at Coventry University, I applied to transfer to LCC straight into year two to get the most out of my student loan and get closer to London and its design scene. I put myself under a lot of pressure to succeed as a student during my…

Jan Tschichold is from Leipzig Germany and is a typography and author. Born in 1902, Tschichold trained as a calligrapher and designer at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Production from the ages of 17 and 19 then began freelancing as a lettering artist and designer. He was hired at a printing firm to draw page layouts for the typesetters. While working there, he visited a Bauhaus exhibition that drew him into the new Modernist movement. A couple of years later, Tschichold joined…