Graphics Theory

6 of the main disciplines of graphic design are

• Advertising
• Editorial Design
• Typography
• Web Design
• Corporate Identity
• Signs and Symbols

The article i really liked reading was from Eye Magazine, called 'An Alphabetical Catwalk-Tania Prill’s student workshop translates typography into fashion'. I found this article very interesting because it links fashion which i love and graphics together, which you wouldnt neccessarily always link together. It also brings out other areas of graphics, rather than just working on a computer.
http://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/an-alphabetical-catwalk

One of the graphic designers that was exhbiting at the design museum this year was Dalton Maag, who was there for his font he designed for Nokia, called Nokia Pure. He designed this font 'to be a font that speaks with simplicity and yet over-flows with character, but is also effortlessly functional in a digital world'.  

Stefan Stagmeister

I really liked this piece of work by Stefan Stagmeister because it isnt what i think of when i think of graphic design. It incorporates nature into the image which you dont see very often in any artists work and to see it in graphics, to me, is very interesting. I also like how the foreground is different on each side, so their is a contrast between everything in the image; the colour of the cactus, the twigs of the tree and then the sillhouette of the cactus on the right.

Wim Crouwell

I liked this image by Wim Crouwell because i have to keep looking at it, just trying to figure out what it says. I think this makes it more interesting because sometimes with this kind of work once you have read it you know what it says and understand it, but with this it isnt possible and it needs to be looked over more than once.

Alan Fletcher

I liked this piece of work by Alan Fletcher because the letters are different from the norm but still look good together. I also liked how some of the letters are turned at an angle or arent shaped properly. For example, the N now looks like a Z and the C isnt all curved like people think it should be, but looks like a pie with a piece taken out of it.

Kris Sowersby

 I picked this image above the rest of his work because when i first looked at it, it just looked like a big block word, which doesnt really link in with the word 'love' as this should be more relaxed and calmer, but then when you look at it closer you see all the intricate design in the middle of each letter and also the swirls that are coming off the edges. I really liked this because it makes it look like it fits in with the word more and also shows how much time he has but into this piece of work, even with such a short word.

Pep Carrio


I liked this piece of work because it is really intricate but simple at the same time. Although it is just a series of lines, you can see that it will have taken him a while to complete it and could have been quite frustrating to do. I also like the image of the person in the bottom corner because i think this sets it off well and makes the lines look like they represent something, such as thoughts, rather than
just being lines.

Noma Bar

 

I liked this image by Noma Bar because it is so simple but he still manages to incorporate two images, so you can tell a lot of thought has gone into it. I also like how he makes work of the negative space and uses it in his work rather than just leaving it empty like some other artists do. I also like how the colours are really simple so that even the smallest red parts stand out well, where as if there was lots of colours in the image you wouldnt be able to see these as well.

 

 

Urso Chappell

 

I really liked this piece of work by Urso Chappell because it has a playful nature to it, without even having any movement and is just 5 characters on a page. The characters remind me of something you would see as a teddy bear for a child or something like that and that is why i like it.

 

Stanley Donwood

 

This piece of work caught my eye, not because i liked it but because i thought it seemed kind of scary and violent, whereas, to me anyway, graphic design always seems to seem friendly and like there is nothing bad about it, but then i came across this. The colours are like fire and the whole picture seems to have a negative feel about it. Although i do think it is a negative style of picture i do think it works well and i like it because it is different from what i have seen in my research for graphic design.

 

Tom Eckersley

 

 

I liked this piece of work by Tom Eckersley because it is like a full rainbow has been put into a picture, which i think looks really nice. I also like the fact that their is two sides to the person and one side is brighter, while the other side has cooler more pastel colours. I like this because i think it shows that there can be two sides to a person, even in art and graphic design.

 

Susan Kare

 

This image by Susan Kare appealed to me because it is so random and doesnt seem very serious, but it can also mean something at the same time. For example, i thought that it could show all of america working together because every image can be linked to the country, for example the flad and the presidents. I also like how their is another drawing at the top of the hearts that doesnt really fit in but somehow she has made it work.

 

Storm Thorgerson

 

I love this piece by Storm Thorgerson because it looks like he had a lot of fun making it because to me it looks like he just put some blobs of paint on a background and moved them around a little, which to me is fun, even though he probably spent hours making sure every little section was perfect. I also like it because you cant really tell what it is so you have to look at it more than once.

 

Since doing the graphics design week i have realised how much graphics is used in every day life and how different just a little line can make something. For example, i never realised how many different fonts their are on one product and how just a few flicks on some letters can make a whole different font. I have started noticing graphic design more now i know what it is about, because befor this week i had never had any kind of introduction to it before.