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.

Angus Hyland Born in 1963 in English town Brighton, Angus Hyland mainly focused in graphic design. His education started at the London College of Printing, where he first majored in information design, before attending the Royal College of Art where he studied Graphic Art and Design. He successfully ran a studio in London’s Soho from 1988, and later in 1998 became a partner in Pentagram. His clientele base is very extensive and includes both public and private sectors. These clienteles include the BBC, British Museum, Asprey, the Crafts Council, Getty Images, Nokia, Phaidon Press, Citibank, Samsung, Sage, Royal Academy of Arts, Shakespeare’s Globe and many more others. His impressive curriculum vitae earned him an appointment as creative director in the Laurance King Publishing in 2005. At the publishing firm, he is in charge of every aspect of brand design and management, and is tasked with the responsibility of conceptualizing innovative book ideas. Hyland has been awarded hundreds of creative awards and was rated one of the best ten designers from the United Kingdom. His D&AD Yellow Pencils award is one of his most notable recognitions. The British Council assigned him curator of the “Picture This” exhibition, which featured illustrative works of artists from London. Another exhibition for which he worked as a curator is the “Ballpoint”, which featured abstract works from fifty artists. He has edited at least five known books, and was designated as a associate of Alliance Graphique Internationale. A recipient of the Master of Arts honorary degree from Surrey Institute of Art and Design, he is married to Marion Deuchars, an illustrator.

HERE IS MY POSTER. I'M SO STRUGGLING, G.W.

Poster Revision

Jerry- I made a few adjustments to the margins and the text. Please let me know what you think. I think this poster looks a little better. Thank you for the advice.

Second Take - Poster

I used Jerry's advice and modified the poster by cropping the image into the poster and then I added another cropped image to dress up the poster. The image is a low resolution so therefore, it won't be as bright as one wishes.

Take 2...my poster design

I noticed that the poster size was too small in my first post. 2nd time is a charm :)

My Poster Design

I designed a poster for a community art sale event.

I really enjoyed this project!

Born in 1919, Max Huber was a very influential Swiss designer who mainly focused in graphic design. After graduating from Zurich’s Kunstgewerbeschule, he interacted widely with other renowned designers of his time such as Hans Falk, Carlo Vivarelli, Josef Muller-Brockmann and Werner Bischof, before launching his career in 1935. After a short spell as an advertising agent, he formed Conzett & Huber in partnership with Emil Schultness but the partnership was ephemeral as he subsequently moved to Milan to avoid joining his country’s military in World War II. Nevertheless, he moved back to Switzerland when Italy joined the war; while in the Italian city he joined the Studio Boggeri. Back in Switzerland in 1941, he teamed up with Emil Schultness and Werner Bischof to form a popular art magazine called Du. One year later, and again in collaboration with Leo Leuppi, Camille Graeser, Max Pill and Richard, he planned an exhibition of his abstract works in Kunsthaus. His partnership with the other five was dubbed Allianz. After the Second World War ends, Huber returned to Milan to work for publishing house Einaudi as a creative director. His experiences in Milan in the following years made him produce very popular and iconic designs. Together with Albe Steiner at VII Triennale di Milano, he designed a number of successive stylish music magazines and record covers. He designed the Italian Grand Prix’s poster at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza’s in 1948, designed La Rinascente’s (a supermarket) corporate logo and cooperated with Achille Castiglioni to create extensive designs for Eni, Montecatini and RAI. He received the esteemed Compasso d’oro award in 1954, and 11 years later in an exhibition in Tokyo met his future life companion, Aoi Kono. In his later years, Huber experimented in personal visuals and taught graphic design at Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design and Scuola Umanitaria. He passed on in 1992, and a museum, m.a.x.museo, dedicated to his personal achievement in 2005 in Chiasso.

Copy of "Mobilier" Poster

I have chosen to make a copy of Georges Calame’s “Mobilier”poster. Calame created this poster Posterfor a furniture store in 1994. Also this particular poster was awarded a prizeas one of the 12 best Swiss posters.

I had trouble with this design at first because I ran into some issues with Photoshop. However, the first picture is the actual poster by Georges Calame and the second picture is my copy.

Project #2 - Poster of Cultural or Art Event

For this project, I've decided to create a flyer so that I can use to communicate to all employees at my company. Each year, I am in charge of coordinating a holiday luncheon for 450 employees starting with getting the message out and deciding on the menu and end with assigning shifts to serve by my top management. Poster below is what I will use to communicate to all employees. So much easier to to create in Photoshop than PowerPoint.

Poul Hans Lange

Poul Hans Lange is a
Danish artist who holds the titles of: educator, photographer, illustrator, graphic designer, fine artist, and children’s book creator. Lange migrated to the United States in the early 1990’s and teaches design in New York and in Copenhagen, Denmark. Not too long after Lange permanently relocated to the United States, he started his own design firm called, “Poul Lange Design”. Lange has had his illustrations appear in many popular publications such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, and the Boston globe. The first children’s book that Lange created is titled Hullebogen, which in English translates to The Book of Holes. A real hole runs through entire book itself and the hole is what creates the centerpieces of every illustration.

Lange not only illustrated the book but yet he was the one to conceptualize, write, and design the whole publication. The book won an award as one of the fifty best book designs in 2006. The premise of the book is that there are a lot of “holes” encountered in our lives; some are good, bad, and ugly. I did review the book online and I do find some of the illustrations and texts to be a little too straightforward for a child. Nonetheless, here are some of the pictures below.

Here is a link to view the book if the images are too small to read:

http://poullange.com/poullangewp/?p=84http://poullange.com/?p=84http://poullange.com/?p=84http://poullange.com/poullangewp/?p=84

Other books by Lange include the ABC Book, and Big Long Lulu,
which is about a boa constrictor, and the story’s setting takes place in the snake’s
body so that children can get an understanding of how big the snake truly is.

As far as fine
art is concerned, Lange has had many exhibitions as a collage artist. A collage
is basically the assemblage of different pieces or forms that are used to
create an entirely new form. Typically collages are made with newspaper
clippings, hand-made papers, texts, pictures, or other objects. Below are some
examples of Lange’s collages.

Other books by Lange include the ABC Book, and Big Long Lulu, which is about a boa constrictor, and the story’s setting takes place in the snake’s body so that children can get an understanding of how big the snake truly is.

As far as fineart is concerned, Lange has had many exhibitions as a collage artist. A collage is basically the assemblage of different pieces or forms that are used to create an entirely new form. Typically collages are made with newspaper clippings, hand-made papers, texts, pictures, or other objects. Below are some examples of Lange’s collages.

Below is a book cover/jacket design. This design is probably my favorite because I think that it looks so classy and the typography is clean and fascinating. Lange created the cover for theDanish version of Paul Auster's novel Invisible. The novel takes place in both New York and Paris, so Lange wanted the design that pretty much can represent both locations. To do this, Lange used a photo that he had taken at a pond in Central Park. The photo includes pond’s reflections of the Fifth Avenue buildings. I think that the cover is so artistic and creative.

Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger was one of the prominent typeface designers of the 20th century, who continues to influence the direction of digital typography in the 21st century; he is best known for crating the typefaces Univers and Frutiger. He was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern. Adrian experimented with invented scripts and stylized handwriting in negative reaction to the formal, cursive penmanship then required by Swiss schools. He had an interest in sculputure but was discourgaed by his father and secondary school teachers; they encouraged him to work in printing. At the age of sixteen he was an apprentice for four years, as a compositor, to the printer Otto Schaerffli. Between 1949 and 1951 he studied under Walter Kach and Alfred willimann in the Kunstgewerbeschule(school of applied arts) in Zurich. [Image] Adrian Frutiger's first, commercial typeface was President - a set of titling capital letter with small, bracketed serifs, released in 1954. A calligraphic, informal, script face, Ondine ("wave" in French), also released in 1954. In the late 1990's, Frutiger began collaborating on refining and expanding the Univers, Frutiger, and Avenir in addressing hinting for screen display. In 2003, the Swiss watchmaker Ventura commissioned him to design a new watch face for a limited-edition line of wristwatches.


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Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger is one of the prominent typeface designers of the 20th century, who continues to influence the direction of digital typography in the 21st century; he is best know for creating the typefaces Univers and Frutiger.

He was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern. His early interest was in sculpture and was discouraged by his father and secondary teacher. At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed four years, to the printer Otto Schaerffli in Interlaken; between 1949 and 1951 he studied under Walter Kach and Alfred Willimann in the Kunstgewerbeschule (school of applied arts) in Zurich.

Adrian's first, commercial typeface was President - a set titling captial letters with small, bracketed serifs, released in 1954. A calligraphic, informal, script face, Ondine ("wave" in French), also released in 1954. In 1955, Meridien, a glyphic, old-style, serif text face was released. In 2003, the Swiss watchmaker Ventura commissioned him to design a new watch face for a limited edition line of wristwatches.

Week 5 - Eric Nitsche

Eric Nitsche was a Swiss-born American Graphic Designer (1908 – 1998) had an abundant 60 year career working across the advertising, printing and publishing industries. Nitsche came to prominence in the 1950s, despite his reserved nature, with the production of abstract semi-futurist technical illustrations and posters for the General Dynamics Corporation. It was more along the lines of repackaging military hardware development and the emerging nuclear industry as a sponsor of space. He designed a breakthrough series of posters, in addition to designing their corporate image, annual reports and advertising. He was hired as Art Director for General Dynamics and savored designing technical data for hydraulic systems and cross-sections of airplanes.

In the 1960s Nitsche turned to book production with a memorable series on the history of science and technology – an illustration driven 12 volume set that was printed in multiple languages and sold 2 million copies. A more ambitious 20 volume history of music followed which included contemporized historical engraving. 300 album cover designs and illustrations for an array of magazine and corporate clients were also huge significant achievements of Nitsche. Not long before his death, Nitsche was elected to the New York Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame even though his design outputs are not widely known and there is no devoted websites.

Avinoam Noma Bar - Week 5

Avinoam Noma Bar a graphic designer from Israel born in 1973. He is known for his outstanding working creating magazine covers Random House, the Observer, the Economist and many more. Bar is living his child life dreams by becoming an artist. At a time in his life when he and his family had to stay in a shelter, he drew a sketch of Saddam Hussein, as seen below. Bar graduated from Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design as a graphic designer, after graduating he moved to
London.

This week, I chose to research Baron Barrymore Halpenny who is a commercial artist, editor, writer and historian of culture and traditions. Barry is predominantly known for his book cover illustrations for Ghost Stations (a series of books containing true ghost stories and mystery stories connected to military or war stories).
Halpenny was born in Lincolnshire, England but was actually raised in Italy where as a baby; his picture was featured on Extra Magazine for fitting the category of “most beautiful Babies”. At the young age of fourteen, his artistic talents emerged and he created a special cover of the Douglas DC-3 for the Isle of Man Philatelic Bureau. The Isle of Man is a self governing British Crown dependency between the isles of Great Britain and Ireland. The cover commemorated the anniversary of the aircraft (DC-3). In addition, Halpenny also created a postage stamp to honor the aircraft as well.

This image may be hard to read, but was the largest I could find. I hope that you all can at least see the image of the DC 3 aircraft, and the stamp (located in the right hand corner) that Halpenny help design at the age of fourteen.

Halpenny later became a Professional Artist and Photographer who then decided to concentrate on cartoons and illustrations. In regards to cartoons, Halpenny is quite known for the images which appeared in bridge (card game) magazines. Unfortunately, the images available on Google were too small to post and the images of Halpenny’s website were not permitted to be copied for reposting). Currently, Halpenny is generally focused on illustrations, cartoons, writing, and painting. As a write, Halpenny has a passion for writing children’s books, specifically those related to science-fiction or adventure. Halpenny is also an environmentalist, and this passion combined with his fascination of wolves, steered him to write the book titled Ways of The Wolf. The book educates readers on wolves, and how these types of predators are valuable to our

eco-system.

Art comes in many forms and I was comforted by Halpenny’s
words that are as follows:

“I love art and creating works of art, but I have to say that to bring
out a child’s fascination and wonder, as well as to make them smile and laugh, are I believe some of the greatest gifts you can have"

Ars ad interim Basler Künstler in Zürich 1971 The second poster is my revision.