Message from Jerry

Hi Everyone,

See Jerry's note below which was sent to your .edu e-mail address on 12/12. Jerry was very kind to eliminate the book cover project, so Gary no need to struggle any longer. I know some of you may not have a chance to log on to your e-mail.


I'm sending this from jnevins.com because I realized that the Albertus email system is messed up. The programmer is out today but apparently when you send email to a whole class from a "My Albertus" login and the faculty class roster, when you hit return instead of getting a carriage return for the next line, the email is sent!

Anyway, I was writing to say that because everyone did such a good job with the biography posts that I will make the CD project the last project due. In other words, no book cover. I was very pleased with the performance of this group this mod. There is a fairly steep learning curve with Photoshop and you all rose to the occasion admirably!

Do submit any final work by midnight, Wed., Dec 14th. That is the official last day of class... the registrar will be looking for the grades by the next day.

email me with and questions/ concerns...

Here is my bookcover project however, I'm still struggling.

Revised - CD Back Cover

Hello all,

Below is my revised design for my CD backing.

I really enjoyed this class and think we all did really well!! Best wishes to everyone during the Holiday Season! Enjoy the time with family and friends!

Jerry, thank you again for a great class! Also, please let me know if the back cover of my CD needs to be revised in any way.

Thank you,

Alicia

Back CD Cover - Revised

Jerry -

Per your comment, here is a revised back CD Cover. I believe I have fulfilled the course requirements. Thank you so much for a wonderful learning experience.

Gaimbattista Bodoni

Giambattista Bodoni was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer who lived from 1740 – 1813. Bodoni was known for designing a family of various typefaces called “Bodoni”.

(Below is an example of "Bodoni" print)

Bodoni admired and followed John Baskerville’s typeface style, commonly known as “Baskerville". (An example of this print type can be seen below)

Bodoni emerged from a printmaking family background, and he once worked as an apprentice in the Vatican’s Propaganda Find printing house in Rome. His work impressed many, and Bodoni was allowed to place his own name on his first books, a Coptic Missal and a version of the Tibetan alphabet. Bodoni was commissioned by many prominent families, including Duke Ferdinand of Bourbon-Parma. The Duke asked Bodoni to organize the printing housed called la Stamperia Reale. As Bodoni worked to publicize the house, he became well respected, and eventually was permitted to open a printing house under his own name. In later years, Bodoni
became well known for his designs of pseudo classical typefaces which were considered more apt to be admired for typeface and layout. Bodoni’s printing style was an artistically plain, and the simplicity of the typeface attracted many admirers and imitators.

Bodoni engraved 298 typefaces and after his death, his widow published II Manuale tipografico (The Manual of Typography). The manual consisted of 373 characters, 34 Greek and 48 oriental or exotic variations.

(Below is a picture of the original Manual from 1818).

In honor of the
well respected artist, the Bodoni Museum was opened in Parma, Italy in 1963,
(150 years after his death)

Below is a picture of inside the museum. It is was housed within the premises of the Pala tineLibrary, and was established to keep and conserve the collection of tools and
equipment and other items belonging to Bodoni’s printing office. It includes the four original neoclassical-style cupboards which belonged to Bodoni and where he kept his boxes of dies and sets of stencils.

Back cover CD project

Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive (February, 1967) is an English designer and is the principal designer behind the iMac, MacBook, iPod, iPad, and iPhone. He is the Senior Vice-President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is one of the most famous graphic designers of the 21st century. Among other awards and recognition, Fortune Magazine named Jonathan Ive “World’s Smartest Designer” in 2010. He was also The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in
2003.

Back CD Cover - Celine Dion

This is the back CD cover for Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love.

CD Project - Floetry

This is my final CD Project. Professor, I made the changes you suggested. Thanks

Paul Rand

Paul Rand was a graphic designer best known for his corporate logo designs, including logos for companies such as UPS, IBM, Enron, ABC, and Westinghouse. Paul Rand had a unique ability to “sell” his abilities to large corporations, and educate them in the merit of graphic design. Paul Rand’s designs were often called
simplistic, but he argued that designs did not need to be “esoteric to be
original or exciting.” Rand also taught design at Yale University. Paul Rand passed away in 1996.

CD Cover - Kirk Franklin

Event Poster - Broken Chains

Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher is one of the most influential figures in post-war British graphic design. The fusion of the cerebral European tradition with North America’s emerging pop culture in the formulation of his distinct approach made him a pioneer of independent graphic design in Britain during the late 1950s and 1960s. As a founding partner of Pentagram in the 1970s, Fletcher helped to establish a model of combining commercial partnership with creative independence. He also developed some of the most memorable graphic schemes of the era, notably the identities of Reuters and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and made his mark on book design as creative director of Phaidon.

Born to a British family in Kenya 1931, Fletcher came to Britain as a five year-old after his father became terminally ill to be bought up by his mother and grandparents in West London. During World War II he attended Christ’s Hospital, a boarding school in Horsham, where he wore a uniform that he later described as “a second-hand medieval costume”. Along with his classmates, Fletcher was destined for a career in the army, the church or banking. Being totally unsuited to any of these, Fletcher opted out of the rigid grooves of post-war British middle class life and took up a place at Hammersmith School of Art.

During the 1950s he attended four different art schools, each one more forward looking and cosmopolitan than the last. Leaving Hammersmith for the livelier environment of the Central School, he found himself in class with his future partners Colin Forbes and Theo Crosby as well as such other future luminaries as Derek Birdsall and Ken Garland. After graduating from the Central School, he spent a year teaching English in Barcelona and then won a place at the Royal College of Art, where his contemporaries included the artists Peter Blake and Joe Tilson.
Towards the end of Fletcher’s three-year stint at the RCA, the head of design Richard Guyatt exchanged places with Alvin Eisenman, his opposite number at Yale University. Fletcher suggested to Guyatt that, if professors were able to swap places, students should have the same privilege. The result was a travel scholarship awarded to Fletcher on graduation on the condition that he attends classes at Yale.

Before arriving in the United States, Fletcher’s vision of life there was informed by the movies: all Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and bright lights. Intending never to return to the 40-watt gloom of London, he married his Italian girlfriend Paola, acquired emigration papers as part of the white Kenyan quota and entered the US across the Canadian border in 1956. Over the next two years Fletcher absorbed as much of US graphic design as he could.

Fletcher loved the US and would happily have stayed there, but his wife, Paola, was pining for Europe so the Fletchers returned to London via Milan. During their short stay in Italy, he had worked at the Pirelli design studio thereby enabling Fletcher to return with Pirelli as a client. In Fletcher’s eyes, London appeared as gloomy in 1959 as it had been on his departure. Fighting the urge the Fletcher get on the first boat back to New York, he settled in a corner of his friend Colin Forbes’s studio for a weekly rent. Forbes had become head of graphic design at Central and Fletcher combined working for clients such as Time and Life magazine and Pirelli with teaching there for one day a week. Two years later Fletcher and Forbes decided to formalize their working relationship and, with the US graphic designer Bob Gill, who had settled in London, they established Fletcher/Forbes/Gill.

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He first joined the team in 1986. Kidd is a fan of comic book media, particularly Batman, and has written and designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, and the aforementioned Jack cole and Plastic Man.


He has also written two novels. His first novel was The Chees Monkeys, and then The Learners. It was announced at New York Comic-Con 2011 that Kidd would be writing Batman: Death by Design, an original graphic novel.

Copied Swiss Poster

Wolfgang Weingart

Wolfgang Weingart was born in Germany, in the Salem Valley which is actually closer to the Swiss border. In regards to education, Weingart attended atwo year graphic arts program at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. While inschool, this accomplished artist worked concentrated on the task of handcomposition. Soon after, he finished his training as typesetter in a small printing shop. It was during this time that Weingart became fully introduced to Swiss typography. In the early 1960’s,Weingart forwarded his work to two famous designers, Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmass, who were actually the founders of the Basel School of Design. Weingart was accepted in the school, and was offered a position to teach typography. Not too bad of a start for this twenty-two year old enthusiast!

As Weingart gained more experience, he decided to become and instructor at the Yale University Summer Graphic Design Program in Brissago. This accomplished typographer has taught extensively in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It is no wonder that Weingart made the decision to graciously retire in the year 2004. Weingart is
described as a Swiss Typographer and is known as “the father” of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography. This talented designer stated, “"I took 'Swiss Typography' as my starting point, but then I blew it apart, never forcing any style upon my students. I never intended to create a 'style'. It just happened that the students picked up — and misinterpreted — a so-called 'Weingart style' and spread it around.”

(The image below is of Weingart's book, which is a helpful guide and learning techniques based on his own style of typography)

Weignart’s work has been highly commended, as he was awarded the honorary title of Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005. His work was also awarded a mark of excellence by the Swiss Federal Minister of the Interior in Berne.

Below are samples of Weingart’s designs. I found them to be eye-catching. This class has helped me form a higher appreciation for graphic designers or typographers, like Weingart. Prior to this class, I thought that designing look pretty simple…and how my perspective has changed!! Typography and other designs seem to require a great amount of detail and creativity. It seems that even a simple looking design isn't always simple to create.

CD Cover - Floetry

My favorite group is Floetry. I was very disappointed when the broke up. Therefore, I choose a few songs from all of their albums to make the Floetry Lounge. I created to images, I think I like the B&W better though.

Final CD project

So, this is my full rendition of a CD case.

I hope that I have completed this project correctly. The backing of the CD (the top picture) looks a lot bigger than my front cover. However, when these files are opened in Photoshop, or as JPEGs, the sizes look fine! Maybe I'm doing something wrong. the front cover is 4.75" (on each side), and the back is 4.625 (each side).

Jerry, please let me know your thoughts, and if my final submission needs to be revised in any way. Thanks so much!

Week 5 - Poster

Sorry, for the delay my computer crashed and I had to start from scratch. I tell you, it is never better than the first time...smh

William Morris Born in 1834, William Morris was a textile designer. Other than textile design, he was also known as a writer and an artist. In partnership with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, he established a design company that significantly dictated the early 20th century house and church decorations. He is credited with being a key contributor in the revitalization of textile arts, and its production methods. He is honored as a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. In his early life, he was hugely influenced by Pre-Raphaelites paintings and espoused John Ruskin’s ideals of rebuffing the tawdry industrial production of decorative architectures and arts, in support of handmade crafts, which promoted creative artists. In 1861, Morris, Burne-Jones, Philip Webb, Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown formed a company in collaboration with Peter Paul Marshall and Charles Faulkner called ‘decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (“William Morris”). The firm focused on carving, metal work, carpets, stained glass, chintzes and paper hangings. Their work attracted commendable attention in exhibitions. In his later years, after withdrawing from an active life in socialist politics, he developed a close interest in typography, as opposed to earlier years when he had mainly concentrated on calligraphy and manuscript illumination. He nevertheless still dedicated his efforts to the firm’s design, by personally designing surface decorations, textiles and wallpapers. He even claimed that he personally assisted in the dying, printing and weaving. His textile interests included embroidery, printed and woven textiles, and tapestries. He was married to Jane Burden and died in 1869.

HERE IS MY ALBUM ADDITION. JENIFER LOPEZ( JENNY FROM THE BLOCK).

CD Cover

For this project, I chose to design a CD cover for Ray LaMontagne, who is one of my favorite musicians. So far, this project is fun...but I do think the back of the CD jewel case will be a tricky process!

Letter Forming

Hello,

This assigment was a little hard for me, I was not able to set up my photoshop software for a while and had trouble posting. I think I have it under control now, I really love how photoshop gives you so many different types of tools to change the colors and shapes of the letters. I had fun doing this assigment, I learned how to use layers and how to change them. I hope you guys like it!

Layout of CD Cover

I've decided to do my CD cover layout on Celine Dion, my favorite singer. Hope I'm on the right track.

Dick Bruna

Dick Bruna is a Writer, Artist and Graphical Designer born August 23, 1927 in Utrecht, Netherlands. He achieved what many banks and other corporations that try to build a long-lasting relationship with their customer’s dream of; he has planted the iconographic images of his creations firmly in the minds of the children of this world. In that sense he has few peers perhaps only Walt Disney. His best known creation then is Miffy, a little rabbit drawn in a few lines and as few colors as possible, and always accompanied by four lines of verse. As part of other series of children’s books in the vein of Miffy, Bruna has also illustrated and designed the covers of the books of many well-known authors. His designs for the covers of Simenon’s Maigret are famous. They usually are dominated by a monochrome silhouette of a pipe.

Dick Bruna was born the son of a man who would become one of the Netherlands largest publishers. The success of the publishing company was based on the fact that they had a book store at almost every railway station, with which the country used to be littered. Bruna was intended by his father to become a publisher too, but he did not have the knack for the business side. Instead his brother got to follow his father in the business, but Dick Bruna still had many jobs to do in the company. Over the years, he worked on the graphical design of perhaps thousands of the books published by the company, among which The Saint, James Bond and Shakespeare. He also translated books to Dutch (Maigret).

At a young age Bruna started drawing, but also getting influenced by other artists. He drew covers for the school news paper in Walt Disney style. Later he admired Rembrandt and Van Gogh. The biggest influence was perhaps Matisse. Dick Bruna's first works were based on collages by the French painter.

Pablo Picasso and Dick Bruna were said to be admirers of each other's work.