The Universal Arts of Graphic Design
Though often overlooked, Graphic Design surrounds us: it is the signs we read, the products we buy, and the rooms we inhabit. Graphic designers find beauty within limitations, working towards the ultimate goal of visually communicating a message, be it the packaging of a product, the spirit of a book, or the narrative of a building. Utilizing a language of type and imagery, graphic designers try to make every aspect of our lives defined and beautiful.
Featuring:
Debbie Millman: http://debbiemillman.com/
Emily Oberman: http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/
Drew Freeman: http://afreeman.co/, http://www.pentagram.com/
Steve Attardo: http://stevenattardo.com/
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Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) Tempo-Tempo, Progress, Culture, 1927 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Marianne Brandt / “German painter, sculptor, photographer and designer who studied at the Bauhaus school and became head of the metal workshop in 1928. Today, Brandt’s designs for household objects such as lamps, ashtrays and teapots are considered the harbinger of modern industrial design”
Graphic designer Mike Joyce drawing from his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism. (:
Nice!
(Source: swissted.com)
“DEBRAIN is when the left side and the right side of the brain work together”.
Debrain is a 3 year old award wining Design studio based in New York City. Their work is focused on graphic and interactive design, branding, and even music composition for original sound scores.
The talented team is headed by Federico Gomez, Gaspar Guerra, Nicolas Ulloa, Pilar Zimmermann and Catalina Torres among a team of designers of the highest caliber.
DEBRAIN and its mother company LeadDog Marketing Group have a roster of clients such as: SyFy, Clif Bar, AMC, Oprah, Fuse, Alterecho and Cognizant.
Here are a few samples of the work:
Alterecho - Doing Well While Doing Good
Client: AlterEcho
Art Direction: Catalina Torres
Design: Rachael Fry
Motion Graphics: Eloisa Iturbe
Music: Nicolas Ulloa
Agency: DEBRAIN
2009
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Conan O’Brien - NY Coco MoCA
12 hours in 1 minute, time lapse installation setup of the NY COCO MoCA, The Museum Of Conan Art at the Time Warner Center on October 24, 2011
Agency: DEBRAIN, a LeadDog Marketing Group division
Art director: Carter Schwarberg
Video: Nicolas Ulloa
Photography: Ignacio Linares
2011
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Sodexo - What’s For Lunch (and Why it Matters…)
Client: SODEXO
Project: What’s for Lunch (and Why it Matters…)
Agency: DEBRAIN, a LeadDog Marketing Group division
Description: Infographics Stop motion video with original music for Sodexo
Art Direction: Carter Schwarberg
Music and Animation: Nicolas Ulloa
Motion Typography: Martin Lanciano
2011
The Villain Vs. Man of the Year, By: Erik Brown
Via fuckyeahbluemonday: (photo via ceremony60)
“Blue Monday from the 2003 Peter Saville exhibit at the Design Museum London. I love that they’ve included the floppy disk in the case. I can imagine plenty of people looking at the 12” sleeve and having no idea what it was referencing.
Post-Modernism sometimes gets a bum rap for being tacky or trading in empty mash-ups. But I think that’s starting to change now that we’ve got enough distance from the ’80s. Saville really nailed post-modernism. It certainly helped that he tempered his work with doses of modernism and neo-classicism, but at its root his work is about appropriation and recontextualisation. You might look at the Blue Monday sleeve and think it’s an overly clever one-note joke, if not for the overall austerity of the design. Even if you don’t get the floppy disk reference, the design works on a purely aesthetic level; it looks new and enigmatic, kubrickian.”
Via manzifresh:
“newest inspiration… tribal geometric pattern monster”
“I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I’M SAYING IT.” by Alan Fletcher
“The most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific”. —The Daily Telegraph
“…expressionism on future that actually is happening where the cubism in the poster of Boris Bilinsky seams like a 3d dystopia-reality, where class war still breathing.” —VC
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Via zolotoivek:
Boris Bilinsky - French Movie Poster for ‘Metropolis’, 1927
“…pioneer in the design of books, annual reports, and other printed material that relied on meticulous attention to the details of page composition, the elegance of simple type presentation, and the juxtaposition of elements on a page” —VC
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Via nae-design:
Erik Nitsche (1908 - 1998)
Some show pieces of annual report covers from a Swiss-born American designer.
