Paula Scher

Paula Scher is an American designer and artist. Born in 1948, Virginia. She is a fine artist and has become well known for her large-scale, microscopically detailed maps, covered with solid hand-painted labellings and information. She has been at the forefront of Graphic Design for decades.

The beginning of the 1970’s to the early 80’s, she began her graphic design career as an art director when her diverse approach to Typography became highly influential.

In 1970 she worked as a record cover art director at Atlantic and CBS records and has earned her 4 Grammy Award nominations.

She creates images that speak to audiences with emotional impact and appeal. After a few decades, the same images have come to be visually identified with the cultural life of New York, such as the Citibank Logo.

- In 1998 she was named Arts Directors Club Hall of fame.
- In 2000, she received the Chrysler Design award for innovation in Design.
- 1998 – 2000, Paula served on the national board of the American Institute of Graphic Design (AIGA) and was president of its New York chapter.
- 2001 she won the profession’s highest honor –AIGA Medal in recognition of her achievements and contributions to the work field.

She has worked for Times Inc and her has lectured and exhibited her work all over the world and is represented in permanent collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Copper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Denver Art Museum, Library of Congress.

Paula holds a Bachelor of Arts and an award for a Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa by the Corcoran in 1970 before moving into Art direction in magazines.






http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2006/09/paula_scher.html
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-paulascher
http://www.pentagram.com/en/partners/paula-scher.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Scher
http://www.ted.com/speakers/paula_scher.html

Ross Lovegrove's Supernatural Chair

Ross Lovegrove, the creator of the famous sophisticated Supernatural chair, was born in 1958, Cardiff, Wales. His professional career has been varied and impressive.

Lovegrove began studying industrial design after being interested in how the world works at an early stage.

After graduating in 1980, he went on to gain a Master of Design degree from the Royal College of Art in London in 1983. He has been since regarded as one of the most important and innovative of complementary industrial designers.

He began his career as a designer in 1980, at the Frog Design in west Germany and has worked on projects such as Walkman design for Sony and computer designs for Apple. Ross then became a consultant for a design company called Knoll International. There he created the bestselling Alessandri Office System in Paris.

Ross Lovegrove has received countless of international awards and has been presented far and wide at international exhibitions.

The famous Supernatural Chair which had been made by fibreglass- reinforced polypropylene injection moulding technology. The design of the chair is a result of the natural form that the technology creates inside the mould.

It represents a new vision of form, generated by digital data, to end in an every day chair slender, lively and healthy.

The chair is a fluid, organic shape which unites the beauty of the human form. The resulting structure is “intelligent” because it acquires levels of comfort, elasticity and strength.

The Supernatural chairs can also by easily stacked; up to 8 chairs high, and comes with multiple colours; white, turquoise, green, caramel and black, and is also greatly suited for outdoors.
The holes are not only for decoration. It’s a way of eliminating excess material. And what they do amongst other things, they add a multi-sensory effect; light passing through the holes, it creates shadows which enhances their surroundings and bring out the architectural surfaces with unexpected degree of beauty.



http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/lovegrove.html
http://www.danerka.com/en/Ross_Lovegrove_Biography_UK.pdf
http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/ross-lovegrove-1958.shtml
http://download.morosousa.com/public/parser_download/save/thesupernaturalworldeng.pdf

Ryan - James Victore

James Victore

Born in America 1962, James Victore is an artist and designer graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Like most artists in New York, Victore uses the “street” and graffiti style of art. This is visible mainly in his drawing style that focuses around scratchy and simple cartoon drawings, or a combination or photocopied pictures and these drawings.
The motifs and meanings around Victore’s work are directly from his views and his like and dislikes in this world. He makes many political and social statements such as the presence of racism in the country, his own view on the government and the rate of teen pregnancies with the low amount of condom use in America.

“First of all, there is no criticism. I think most folks are afraid of the perception of criticism, so they take no chances. I’m very spoiled. I work with smart, sexy, brave clients who want to make powerful statements, and I get to be myself in the process. I don’t have to disguise my voice just because I have a commercial client.” - James Victore

A few of Victore’s clients are Moët & Chandon, Target, Amnesty International, the Shakespeare Project, The New York Times, MTV, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Portfolio Center. He’s also won some awards including a Gold medal from the Broadcast Designers Association and a Gold and Silver medal from the New York Art Director’s Club.

http://www.jamesvictore.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Victore
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28623/
http://quotesondesign.com/james-victore-2/
http://www.designrelated.com/news/feature_view/25

DEAN-Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929 in New York City) is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo,[1] his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. He has designed and illustrated more than 300 posters.he studied (1948–51)at the cooper union art school and (1952–53), as a Fulbright scholar, attended the academy of fine arts, bologna, Italy under Giorgio morandi. since founding Milton Glaser, inc. in 1974, Milton Glaser, inc.,the work produced at his Manhattan studio has encompassed a wide range of design disciplines - print graphics: identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes,
logos (among them the ‘I love new york’ logo for the new york state
department of commerce, that became the most frequently
imitated logo design in human history).from the start of his career, milton glaser has been an active
member of both the design and education communities:
he taught design at the school of visual arts in new york
in one of america’s most respected programs. Among designers, he's a legend. For the rest of the roughly 300 million people in the U.S. (and millions more around the globe), Milton Glaser is probably the most famous designer you've never heard of. The I ♥ NY logo that he designed in 1975 has become part of the popular lexicon, decorating everything from key chains to T-shirts to ashtrays, and inspiring countless knock-offs. One of the most replicated logos in history, Glaser's design represents a kind of cultural shorthand: drycleaners' hangers say We ♥ Our Customers, coffee mugs proclaim I ♥ Allah, and bumper stickers declare Yo ♥ Peru.
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0VPVbFY4Kg
http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/mg_index.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-GlaserMil.html

David Carson- Graphic Designer

"He changed the public face of design" "Most influential graphic designer of our times"

David Carson is considered by many to be one of the world’s most influential graphic designers. He describes himself as a “hands-on” designer and has a unique, intuition-driven way of creating everything from magazines to TV commercials.

Carson graduated with "honors and distinction" from San Diego state university, where he received a BFA degree in sociology. A former professional surfer, he was ranked #9 in the world during his college days. Numerous groups including the New York Type Directors Club, American Center for Design and I.D. magazine have recognized his studio's work with a wide range of clients in both the business and arts worlds. Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine, and a front page article in the new york times . London-based Creative Review magazine dubbed Carson "Art Director of the Era." The American Center for Design (Chicago) called his work on Ray Gun magazine "the most important work coming out of America." His work on Beach Culture magazine won "Best Overall Design" and "Cover of the Year" from the Society of Publication Designers in New York.

Like Neville Brody typographer and graphic designer David Carson became influential in the late 1980's and 1990s for experimental typeface designs. David Carson's designs were featured heavily in surfing and skateboarding magazines. He believes that due to his lack of training enabled him to become the designer he is today as he based designs on what made sense to him. David Carson also believes that and designs should be self indulgent, subjective, personal, let your personality show through and put who you are into your work.

A tribute to other self-taught designers, David Carson broke most of the rules of design and typography, a process that was made easy with the use of desk top publishing programs, such as Pagemaker, QuarkXpress and Illustrator. He experimented with overlapping and distorted fonts and intermixed these with striking photographic images.

Some of Carsons works;

The magazine RayJun- did every issue as if it was his last.

The magazine Beach Culture

The book Surf Culture

CD cover Nine Inch Nails

http://www.designtalkboard.com/design-articles/famous-designers.php

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/?dcdc=top/s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_%28graphic_designer%29

http://layersmagazine.com/an-interview-with-david-carson.html

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

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Stacy: Graphic Design - Hillman curtis dvd

Today we watched a dvd- Artist series: Design by Hillman Curtis available on Youtube. Select a designer featured on this dvd from the following list

Michael Bierut

Paula Scher

Milton Glaser

David Carson

Stefan Sagmeister

James Victore

Woody Pirtle

Pentagram Design

Make a post of no less than 250 words, 5 images and 5 links

Cilla: Woody Pirtle

Woodrow Tyler Pirtle, Jr., was born in Corsicana, Texas, in 1944, but by the time Woody was three years old his father had moved the family to Shreveport, Louisiana, so he could become a corporate pilot for what was to become Pennzoil. The world that Woody inhabited from the ages of 3 to 24—Louisiana and later Arkansas—really gave no clues of what was to come.



Armed with a body of work in fine arts from the University of Arkansas, Woody made his first stop after finishing college in 1967 at a small ad agency in Shreveport. A couple of years later, realizing that he needed to be in a larger market if he was to make anything of himself, he moved his young family to Dallas. Woody may have been born in Corsicana and raised in Shreveport, but his professional birth was in Dallas in 1972. That was when he went to work for Stan Richards and where he would grow up for the next seven years.



In 1978 Woody Pirtle established Pirtle Design in Dallas, Texas. Over the next 10 years, the firm created identity programs and marketing materials for Baylor University Medical Center, The Dallas Museum of Art, TGI Friday’s, Dallas Opera, Diamond Shamrock Corporation, National Gypsum, Centex Homes, Gerald D. Hines Interests, Simpson Paper Company and NCR, to name a few.



In 1988 Woody merged Pirtle Design with Pentagram, an international design consultancy founded in London in 1972, becoming a partner at their New York offices for the next 18 years while continuing to work with some of the firm's most prestigious clients. Between 1988 and 2005, Woody and the office of Pentagram produced work for Brown-Forman, Bacardi Global Brands, Flying Fish Brewing Company, Watch City Brewing Company, Murray’s Cheese, Really Cool Foods, IBM, Champion International Corporation, Fine Line Features, The Rockefeller Foundation, Nine West, Northern Telecom, Knoll International, Wellesley College, Princeton University, Brooklyn Law School, and Amnesty International, plus many others. In 2005 Woody left Pentagram to re-establish Pirtle Design.

Woody Pirtle was commissioned in 2002 by Amnesty International to design a series of posters focusing on twelve of the individual articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.



According to Pirtle's website, "Woody’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Neue Sammlung Museum in Munich, and the Zurich Poster Museum. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, lectured extensively, is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, and has served on the board of HOW magazine, Sustainable Hudson Valley, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In October 2003 he was awarded the prestigious AIGA Medal for his career contribution to the design profession."

http://www.a-g-i.org/2126/members/pirtle.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Pirtle

http://www.pirtledesign.com/about.htm

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-woodypirtle

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