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Graphic Designer week 8

Reza Abedini born in Tehran in 1967 is an Iranian graphic designer and professor. His method of creativity blends modernism and traditional Islamic patterns, calligraphy and culture together. He merges typography and elegant layouts to show off the beauty of the Persian language. Alongside of being an artist, Abedini is also an art critic, independent art director with Reza Abedini Studio and the editor-in-chief of Manzar magazine.

Before creating all his magical art work, Abedini graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Tehran majoring in graphic design. After, he went on to his second degree at Tehran University of Art majoring in painting and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1992. All the way up until 1993 he was the editor of the visual section of Sureh Monthly Magazine and in 1993 was when he found Reza Abedini Studio.

Abedini has earned dozen of international design awards including the Principal Prince Claus Award in 2006. This was awarded to him for his personal creativity in his innovative thinking of art. Combining the historical parts of Iranian culture and the modern Iranian culture and making the art interesting and influential. Abedini’s name is also listed in Megg’s History of Graphic Design as one of the world’s outstanding post digital graphic designers.

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The first Image is the original and the second is my creation.

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The top image is the new, re-created book cover. 

The below are the front and back of the original book cover:

Week 8 Graphic Designer (Andrew Fairclough)

A self-taught illustrator, designer and art director at Kindred Studio, Andrew Fairclough started out designing skate and snowboard graphics and has moved on to work with top clients including GQ, American Express, Jack Daniels and Penguin Books. His work is inspired by mid-century spot illustrations with a dash of vintage sci-fi and comic art, and he enjoys working with a limitred palette to evoke the nostalgia and tactility of found art.

Week 7 Graphic Designer (Mister Doodle) @misterdoodle on Instagram

Mister Doodle is a designer who specialises in handcrafted typography. The pairing of beautiful scenic photos, thought-provoking sincere quotes and carefully crafted hand-type makes for an Instagram that just about everyone can find something of value in.

Personally, I'm a fan of quotes and this amazingly talented guy adds so much to his quotes with the typography and background. I enjoy his page very much and I highly recommend following him on Instagram.

The end is near

Hi everyone....

Just a heads up that the term is over... The registrar is closing the grading portal first thing on the 13th... so... It is important to finish up your work by the Sunday at noon so that I can do the grading Sunday afternoon to meet the deadline.  Feel free to revise or amend any previous work up until that date.

It was great to work with you this mod... Have a great graduation (if you are graduating) and a great summer!

Week 8: Graphic Designer ( Herb Lubalin )

Lublin is an American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines. Which were Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of theses publications. Lubalin was born in New York on March 17, 1918.

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Carol Twombly

"Carol Twombly (born 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type design. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon.

Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry.

A biography of Twombly and her type design career by Nancy Stock-Allen was published in 2016"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Twombly

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Maureen Ciardiello, Week 8 – Graphic Designer, Otl Aicher

Otl Aicher was a German born graphic designer and typographer.  As a teenager during the Hitler regime, Aicher initially opposed the Nazi’s but eventually was drafted into the army.  He continued his resistance by making several attempts to leave.  Eventually he was successful and deserted the army and went into hiding.  After the war, Aicher went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.  He co-founded the Ulm School of Design and immersed himself on branding designs for corporations in addition he contributed to rotis font design.  One of Aicher’s famous campaigns was the work he contributed to the 1972 Summer Olympics having designed among other things the signage used during the games represented by stick figures.  Some of his other well know designs are the logo for Lufthansa and signage used in the Athens Airport.

You can see Aicher's use of the Swiss style below, especially in his Lufthansa logo.  I like the use of colors and his fun way of transforming stick figures into action figures for the 1972 Olympics.  Finally, I have a love for duchsands.  His colorful pooch design in the third graphic was based on his own dog, Waldi.  

Maureen Ciardiello, Week 7 – Graphic Designer, Katherine McCoy

Katherine McCoy is an American graphic artist and educator, born in Decatur, IL on October 12, 1945.  She was inspired to become an industrial designer after a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  After graduating from Michigan State University with a major in Industrial Design, McCoy landed a job at the notable agency, Unimark International.  It was here that McCoy was able to go in depth in typography and study over books by some of the great graphic artist such as Ruder, Gerstner and Hofmann.  She went on to the Chrysler Corporation, Omnigraphics, Designers & Partners and eventually finding her own agency along with her husband, Michael, McCoy and McCoy Associates.  Shortly after the founding of their agency, the couple were asked and accepted the opportunity to be the co-chairs of the design department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.  Although not initially wanting to work in academia, McCoy stayed at Cranbrook for 24 years eventually moving on to contribute to other schools such as Royal College of Art and Illinois Institute of Technology.  She and her husband are still active in education. 

 I like the use of colors Ms. McCoy uses in each of her designs below.  She has bold, clean lines in the first design along with bright colors that make the design stand out.  In the second image, you see her ability to create a simply but impactful design for Tivoli.  Finally, I liked the different color choices shown in the last design.  It is more subtle but just as impactful.

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Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder is a master graphic artist he was a contributor to Swiss Style design. He was committed to the discipline of letterpress typography.   The Swiss Style was developed in 1950. Ruder was a pioneer in creating new laws of composition working with the modern era. Ruder taught for 25 years and published a book with his ideas, methods and approach. The book was published in 9 languages. He used asymmetrical layouts, grids, and relied heavily on Sans-serif type. His book is widely used as a reference to this day.

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Robert Gill

An artist who focused heavily on arts & crafts, operating in a communication surrounding manual labor, opposed to ever growing popular commerce aociwty around him. He became a Roman Catholic, and even assisted in founding art groups for Catholics. Ironically his religious beliefs were opposite of his personal (sexual) lifestyle. He had many affairs and even sexually assaulted his dog, and close family members. Professionally, he made many war memorials after World War I. As well as three of eight relief sculptures on the theme of winds for Charles Holden's headquarters for the London Electric Railway (now Transport for London) at 55 Broadway, St James's. 

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WK8 Graphic Designer Review

I selected Paula Scher who was born in Washington, DC.  She is an American Graphic designer, painter and educator of design.  She attended the Tyler school of Art in Pennsylvania in the 70’s.   Her first job when she moved to the city was at a Random House children's book as a layout artist.  She worked for CBS records for a few years.  She co-founder Koppel and Scher in the 80’s she produced identities, packaging, book jackets, and advertising and the famous swatch poster. In the 90’s she became an educator teaching at the School of Visual Arts.  She also worked on billboards, posters for theatre.  She also designed a windows 8 logo.  She was married twice.

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