Showing posts with label ougd103. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ougd103. Show all posts

Monday, 28 February 2011

DESIGN IS ABOUT DOING



WEB DEFINITION: 
  1. "contrary or radically different in some respect common toboth, as in naturequalities, direction, result, orsignificance; opposed: opposite sides in a controversy;opposite directions"
  2. "situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else oreach other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, spaceor thing: opposite ends of a room"
  3. "being the other of two related or corresponding things:friendly with many members of the opposite sex"

DESIGN IS ABOUT DOING: letter, word, sentence, paragraph


"A new typography book being published by HOW books is now accepting submissions. Selected work will be featured in Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph due for release in early 2012. 

Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph will break down the study of type into a systematic progression of typographic relationships using content, examples, interviews, and real-life inspiration.

There is no entry fee and you may submit as many entries as you like. Enter your best typography-based designs today and be a part of this exciting new book."



Friday, 19 November 2010

What Is Graphic Design continued..

"A solution to  problem of communication through design"

"Graphic design is simple & effective"

"Truly elegant design incorporates top-noth functionality into simple, uncluttered form"

Jared Nickerson


Sam Soulek



Bison



Roger Oddone




Pete Vasilyev



Alexandre Mendes



By multiple owners..

Yissus Galiana




Friday, 22 October 2010

What is Graphic Design?

Some may say graphic design can be defined as visual communication using text or images to represent an idea or concept. Below is some work that I feel is relevant to this definition....




Led by art director David Carson, Ray Gun Magazine evidently experimented with the use of typography design. These two in particular stood out to me due to the slightly hectic yet nicely organised compositions with type...






David Thompson (aka Monsieur Cabinet) experimented with thoughts, puns and word play. I feel its a demonstration of a simple yet effective piece of graphic design.




The Creative Review:
The creative review is a magazine focusing on areas of visual communication, including Graphic Design, Illustraion, Advertising and Digital Media.



Whilst on the Edit Magazine website, I came across Adam Grills (Graphic designer) and Chris Dent (Illustrator) and really liked the look of their design style. I like the clarity and accuracy in Dent's illustrations along with the descrete message's in Grills'... 


Esquire Magazine, with art director Darhill Crooks, cleary pays alot of attention to type, with text playing a big role in the cover. Simple, yet important display of vusual communication; type and image...





Found this on 'Typography Served', nice piece of typography, makes your eyes work/hurt!