Designers
Great Design: Frank Chimero Illustrations
Source: The Office of Frank Chimero
Great Design: 9/11 Poster by Christoffer Erneholm
A gentle and subdued memorial poster of 9/11 by Christoffer Erneholm. I love the gradient slices, clouds, and soft colors. It makes you remember without defaulting to familiar images of planes, holes and debris. The text seems to be homage to the Guy Fawks Night Poem: “Remember, Remember, the 5th of November”, when Fawks tried [...]
Designa Thought: Smoke & Mirrors
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror. ~ Juan-Carlos Fernàndez Toy Mirror By Ryan McElhinney, 2007 Made of recycled toys sprayed in polyurethane glass lacquer.
Designa Thought: Innovative Designers
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong. ~ Marty Neumeier
Great Advice for a Graphic Design Student
I came across this blog post over at Frank Chimero’s site. It has some great advice for current graphic design students and those just entering the design/studio work force. As a MFA student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, a lot of his words resonated with me and so I thought I’d [...]
Sprung Grid, By Lian Ng
Often times it is the simplest of designs and ideas that are the most powerful. This design, by Lian Ng (a professor I had at Academy of Art University), fits the bill. Fantastic. And this with only three strings broken: I think what gets me is its personal meaning. The obvious meaning is a design [...]
Brockmann’s “Musica Viva” Triple ReDesign
Remaking classics. A common task, but this time with a twist. The project was to take an existing poster and redesign it using the styles of three other unique designers. In other words, if the identical design task was given to three other prominent designers, how would they communicate and design the message? The poster [...]
