Graphic Design

Paul Rand (1914 -1996) – Designer who led the way

On: March 24, 2023

Tagged: artist, business, colorful, creative, creativity, Design, Designer, draw, graphic, logo, man, packaging, professional, studio, Typography, work

Paul Rand, was a seminal figure in graphic design who made innovative visual identities for some of America’s major corporations and book and magazine publishers

We all have seen the designs of Paul Rand at some stage of our lives. He had a career spanning nearly seven decades. There is the seminal logo for IBM and the logo for ABC. There is the Westinghouse logo, the logo for NeXT computers. There are posters and packaging, book covers, record covers and a multitude of magazine covers.Read More →

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Punk Fanzine: Sniffin’ Glue

On: March 24, 2023

Tagged: British Design

The DIY style was one of the novelties that British punk introduced in the 1970s. There were hundreds of these fanzines, the most well-known of which being Sniff in ‘Glue. i-D, published by the art director Terry Jones, evolved from a fanzine into a publishing success.Read More →

Glyphs – Road to International Understanding

On: March 16, 2023

Tagged: symbol, Typography

Glyphs are graphical symbols that are more or less universally used. The Ancient Greeks had a word for most of today’s needs, the glyph is a Greek word meaning carving. Glyphs should carve a road to international communication by breaking down language barriers.Read More →

Penguin Book Covers (1946 – 1949) Designer: Jan Tschichold

On: March 16, 2023

Tagged: classic design, swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, typographer

Tschichold created new standards of text arrangement and style that inspired all of the British postwar graphic design, although only working for the publication for three years. Then, with the formulation of the “Penguin Composition Rules,” he was able to apply Modernist theory to the requirements of book manufacturing.Read More →

Peter Behrens (1868 – 1940) – German architect/designer

On: March 16, 2023

Tagged: Architect, architects, German Architect 🇩🇪, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designer 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪

Peter Brehens (1868 – 1940) was a German graphic artist, architect and designer. He studied at the Karlsruhe and in Düsseldorf and Munich.Read More →

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Capitalisation rules – the basics

On: March 16, 2023

Tagged: art term, Design, Design Term

If you have ever read an old newspaper (early nineteenth century) and you look carefully at the old broadsheets. You will notice that words are capitalised here and there and that the rules of capitalisation, some of which you will learn shortly, seem nonexistent.Read More →

Peter Behrens (1868 – 1940) – German architect and designer

On: March 14, 2023

Tagged: Architect, architects, German Architect 🇩🇪, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designer 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪

Peter Brehens (1868 – 1940) was a German graphic artist, architect and designer. He studied at the Karlsruhe and in Düsseldorf and Munich.Read More →

Jacqueline Groag (1903 – 1986) Czech textile designer

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Czech Cubism, Czech Design 🇨🇿, Czech Designer 🇨🇿, textile, textile - british, textile - swedish, textile designer

Jacqueline Groag (1903 – 1986) was a Czech textile designer and ceramicist. Born in Prague she studied in Vienna at the Kunstgewerbeschule during the 1920s. In 1937 she moved to Paris where she designed dress prints for Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiparelli and others.Read More →

Adrian Frutiger (1928 – 2015) Typographer – creator of widely used fonts.

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: Designer, graphic design, graphic designer, swiss design 🇨🇭, switzerland, Typography

Adrian Frutiger was a Swiss graphic designer and typographer. Frutiger created some of the most widely used fonts of the 20th century, and they can be seen daily in airports on street signs and in subway stations. He was the creator of many internationally known and loved fonts such as Avenir, Frutiger, Univers and Vectora.Read More →

Wolfgang Weingart – Swiss Typographer and Designer

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, Typography

He was dubbed “the father” of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography . LEARN MORERead More →

Ikko Tanaka (1930 -2002) 🇯🇵 Graphic Design blend of East and West

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: graphic design, graphic designer, Ikko Tanaka, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, japanese graphic design

Ikko Tanaka was a Leading Graphic Designer in Japan. He had an enormous impact on the post-war visual culture in Japan.Read More →

Claude Garamond (1510 – 1561) made the letter a living thing

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: design history, French Design, graphic design, type, typographer, Typography

Little is known about the early life of France’s most distinguished type designer Claude Garamond, though he is mentioned as being “at work” in the printing business early in the sixteenth century, Garamond was commissioned by the French monarch, Francis I, to cut a font of Greek letter which later became known as the “Royal Greek Type.” Read More →

Agitprop – Design and Art Term

On: February 22, 2023

Tagged: art term, design dictionary, Design Term, dictionary, russia, russian, russian art, russian design, russian designer

Agitprop art (or the art of agitation) was used to manipulate ideological beliefs, specifically to spread the ideals of Communism in Russia in the period immediately following the 1917 revolution. The term ‘agitprop’ (an abbreviation for agitation propaganda: ‘agitational propaganda’) was first used shortly after the Revolution, and the Communist Party established the Department of Agitation and Propaganda in 1920.Read More →

Jan Tschichold (1902 – 1974) – Swiss Typographer

On: February 21, 2023

Tagged: Art, Design, elegant, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, graphic, graphic design, graphic designer, lettering, logo, poster, print, retro, style, swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, switzerland, symbol, text, type, typographic, Typography

German-born, Tschichold is one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century, He cleared away the old typography of pre-1925 and made room for a modern, structured and regulated new typography. His work is characterised by rigorous structure, asymmetrical placement of contrasting elements, and layouts based on horizontal and vertical underlying grids.Read More →

Million Mark Note – Design Classic

On: February 20, 2023

Tagged: Design, design classic, Designer, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, typographic, Typography

The Bauhaus was the most well-known design school of the 20th century. Herbert Bayer created notes in denominations of one million, two million, and two billion. The designs exemplify the ideology of hardline Modern Movement graphics.Read More →

Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) – Universal Typeface – Bauhaus Master

On: January 10, 2023

Tagged: austrian, austrian design, Austrian Designer 🇦🇹, Bauhaus, Berlin, Design, design history, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, typographer, Typography, work

The universal typeface, 1925, was a geometric alphabet based on bar and circle and was designed by Herbert Bayer. READ MORERead More →

Japan Advertising Artists Club pioneer of Japanese Graphic Design

On: January 9, 2023

Tagged: design association, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, japanese graphic design

In the 1960s, the JAAC’s philosophy came under fire for being overly reliant on exhibitions as a platform for innovative ideas. Furthermore, during the turbulent 1960s, a perceived emphasis on aesthetics at the expense of social significance, combined with allegations of elitism, led to the organisation’s disbandment in 1970.Read More →

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A journey through 60 years of graphic design in 3500 designs

On: January 8, 2023

Tagged: Book, Design - Book, graphic design, Graphic Design Books

Graphic design has distilled the spirit of each era through the tumultuous passing of time. Approximately 3,500 landmark designs lead us through contemporary history in this visual map. Jens Müller curates the year’s standout projects, as well as a running sequence of design achievements.Read More →

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The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters

On: January 8, 2023

Tagged: Book, Design - Book, Graphic Design Books

Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include form, narrative, color, type and image, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour.Read More →

Jules Cheret (1836 – 1932) – The Father of Modern Poster Art

On: October 3, 2022

Tagged: Abstract, Art, artistic, Book, bright, bsd, card, colorful, concept, cover, creative, creativity, decoration, Design, drawing, flower, geometric, graphic, history, illustration, modern, paint, paper, Paris, pattern, poster, retro, shape, sign, style, vintage

Jules Cheret was a French painter who became a master of Belle Epoque poster art. Over the course of his long life, Cheret produced more than 1000 posters. His extravagantly colourful designs were used to regularly promote upcoming theatre productions. He is regarded as the father of the modern poster.Read More →

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