Edward Gorey Illustration

http://www.missivemaven.com/2009/12/he-wrote-it-all-down-zealously.html

Sara Fanelli

The work of Sara Fanelli attracts me as her work looks delicate and quite femine, her use of collage and paper has brought a textbook/scrapbook look to her illustrations. The work she produces is also quite busy with different going-ons in different layouts and compositions of the page. She makes the most of the space given. The different patterned paper and childlike drawings give her a unique style which I like.

4 A4 Typography testers

Used Indian ink and stick, collage, coloured chalk/pastel, coloured pencil and graphite.

Fuse, Migrate, Balance, Isolation

Graphic Design Evaluation

Throughout this week of learning Graphic Design I have realised Graphic Design doesn't intend on the things I thought it had before, I did think it was a way of looking at how to change or process an object, mostly furniture, and my knowledge of the area was poor beause I was very wrong. What I have realised is Graphic Design plays an important role in everyday life with most things we see involving the subject. From computers, packaging, magazines, newspapers and logos. I have found that how good the logo is it can persuade us to buy that object and up the market sales for that item, so in any business Graphic Design would be involoved.

Bogdan Ceausescu

I found this artist on Google and found his way of working with words a clever way. He uses them for posters for music festivals and leaflets. The bold colour and text shows the statement he is making, also it is readable as he is trying to catch peoples eye to go to the event. 

Noma Bar

Noma Bar uses block colours and simple shapes to make a silhouette or outline of the object she is perceiving. Looking at the negative and positive space, using the colours wisely keeping it to a very short colour palette makes the outcome look like illustrations. 

Pep Carrio

Pep Carrio uses letters or words to make pictures, instantly I thought of a tree, or branches. It filling the page makes you look closer, the design for me is a little too busy but still makes a great impact on how you want to look at it for longer. 

Kris Sowersby

The thing I like about Kris Sowersby way of working with Typography is how he introduces sketching and drawing into the text and you get the creative process coming through. The way it has been done rather well and shaded in black, white and grey colours also gives a nice effect to the scale of the word.

Alan Fletcher

This design stood out to me from the colour. The black and yellow immediately draws your eye to the picture no matter what it could be, the 50s style of font and style of the man also pulled me to this design, it was different to the other modern designs around now. It brings back the old fashioned black and white from before, one of favorites from what I have seen so far.

Wim Crouwell

The typography in this is clever. The sentence chosen to be used and the layout both come together and relate. The word 'Align' stands out as it is the only word underlined and 'Align' means arrange in a straight line or adjust according to a line which is being done in the design.  Wim has played around with the word and made an effective layout.

Stefan Sagmeister

This design by Stefan Sagmeister stood out to me from the others on Google Images, the way he has used an everyday object which we wouldn't associate with text and gave it a meaning. Also bringing the two images together is showing a statement of 'always' not being forever as things always have to end. The design is very pure and simple. I did notice that I have seen Stefan Sagmeisters' designs before, as he did the Album cover for The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon.

Design Museum in London

I couldn't find any Graphic Artists which took my notice but I did see this Artist called Maarten Baas
www.maartenbaas.com

The six main disciplines of Graphic Design

1. Advertising
2. Branding/Corporate Identity
3. Typography
4. Packaging
5. Signs/Signage
6. Editorial Design