Some thoughts to leave you with...

I don't necessarily agree that these are the best children's books, but, I do think that the designs are very eye catching and worth sharing. 







My son (who's 23 and in the Army) and I still say..."Guess how much I love you?" and do the different quotes from the book shown here (mommy & baby bunny on cover). 

Gets me choked up every time he says it. 

Remember...

What is Graphic Design?

This week I thought that I would let the images speak for themselves.

 

Wow!

Can you believe that this was the first Apple computer!

Then along came Adobe...

...with postscript fonts, PageMaker, and the like...

Nothing's been the same since!

Thank Heavens!!! 

 

Contemporary Design

This week we are studying a design era that I'm not a huge fan of. But, I did find some designs that I liked the look of and wanted to share those with you. 

These are some currency designs done in 1982 for the Netherlands.

These are some stamp designs
for the ISAF
Sailing World Championship in Cascais 2007.

This is a poster advertising Hesign Studio Berlin 2004. Thus the year being part of the design.

This week we are reading about the Psychedelic art period. Here are a few prime examples. I hope you enjoy them.

Peace out, man!

Joseph Muller-Brockmann was one of the designers listed in this weeks reading. Here are some of his designs.

One of the artists we are studying this week is Alexey Brodovitch. I found his images absolutely fascinating and wanted to share a few that I found.

 

I really like the way the typography accents the arch in the photograph. The combination is very eye appealing and adds a playful feel.

Swiss/International

Psychedelia

Contemporary

Post Modern

Digital

Early Modern Era

Art Deco Era

American Kitsch

Victorian Era

Arts & Crafts Era

 Art Nouveau Era

I thought this was pretty cool. It has all of the ideas that I'm learning about written in it.

This image is from dreamstime.com.

I was looking up the phrase "Graphic Design History" just to see what would come up & this book cover caught my eye. The design is actually the initials of the company "AGI". Simple yet eye catching.

I saw this and thought that it just SCREAMED the 60's. Note the fact that her belly button is in the center of the "O"... kind of groovy.

Here are a few videos that I found that I thought might interest all of you. One of them I included in our presentation. They are about Mackintosh, Horta & Klimt. I hope you enjoy them.

I saw this and immediately thought of this class. Starting with the "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" type of design to 2008....

I found this image on Hongkiat.com. This website has all kinds of information & ideas about everything "design". 

Check it out!

I thought that this Grateful Dead poster would be good to show a bit of design history. Check out the colors & the typestyles used. You still see the colors, but the typestyles seem to be more to the period of the poster than what we would see today.

This is an album cover from 1954. I thought the design was striking in the way the face is just kind of a shadow effect. Also, there's just a minimal amount of color, too. I've seen other, more recent, designs try to use this kind of idea. But, I think that this one works because of the time period it was designed in & by the use of the "fain" face over the top.

I'm pretty new to the blogging scene, so, be gentle... I'm in the process of boxing up everything in my mother's home & moving it here to Champaign. I have ran across quite a few things that I think are very cool & that would fall into the "Design" category. This old "3d" viewer is one of them. The way that it takes 2 pictures on a card & combines them in such a way that when viewed through the "viewer"  makes the image look 3d. It is such a cool thing that I'm going to keep it to pass down to my son. It has a dozen different cards with it & I'm hoping to find others on-line to add to my collection. I find these to be in the Graphic Design category because all of the cards are like mini advertisements. They all have the name & place listed on the back of them, along with the year, photographer name & any copyright information.