Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was an America art director and graphic designer reknowned for his famous corporate logo designs. He was one of the first American to apply the Swiss Style (International Typographic Style) to his graphic designs. Paul Rand was educated in Pratt Institute (1929–1932), Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933–1934). Later in 1974, he taught design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972.
Even after his death to cancer in 1996, he remain one of the world’s most famous and honorable graphic designers thanks to his designs of many posters and corporate identities which include IBM, UPS
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He embraced to design from his childhood when he painted his father’s grocery store as well as for school events. However his father did not agree art is a good way to make a living for Rand and forcing him to attend Harren High School in the morning and Pratt Institute in the night.
Neither of these education offer much stimulation to Rand. He educated himself in the New York Public Library by exploring art print resources and learning about the A.M. Cassandre, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and the Bauhaus thanks to the European magazines such as Gebrauchsgraphik of German.
In Rand’s early career, he got a part time job designing stock images for newspaper and magazine for a syndicate while maintaining his study in art schools .During this time, he was influenced by the style of German advertising Sachplakat (object poster) and admired Gustav Jensen who was the leading designer of the day.
In the 1940s after having experience in many various job, Rand proceed to the modernize design in the advertising field. At that time, advertising in America wasn’t design but just the copy of invariably layout and Rand was consider an innovative designer believing that advertising composition was a design problem that required intelligent
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He later created his own style of modernism and simplicity and influences other designer at that time and up to now. Paul Rand promoted distinctive, memorable and clear in his design. Rand believed the simplicity from lines, shapes, and colours could become message-conveying signs and symbols. These innovations still largely influence designers these days.
Steve Job, an innovative inventor, designer who transform the world with Apple in 21th century had worked with Paul Rand in the NEXT logo deisign. It is reported that Steve Job once lectured his staff with the important of typography with the influence from Paul Rand. Steve also admire Rend and calling him ‘the greatest living graphic designer’ before his dead in 1996.
Rand lessons and books are the bible of modern design which are the guideline for many young designer. His major writings include Thoughts on Design (1947), A Designer’s Art (1985), Design, Form, and Chaos (1993), and From Lascaux to Brooklyn
Firstly there are many colors that have many different hidden meanings in the ad. This paper will talk about the meanings of the colors white, red, and grey. These three colors meanings and why they are placed were they are in the ad. The ad’s layout is also well done, and precise laid out. The paper will use a list that tells what makes an ad layout exquisite. The writing of the ad is impeccable. There are three reasons why the State Farm ad’s writing is extravagant. State Farms ad meets these requirements and many more.
Many pioneers of the movement such as Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson and Alex Steinwelss came up with designs that were much appreciated and attracted people and students of design. One of the students was Saul Bass (1920 - 1996). Born in New York, Bass developed an interest in design and illustrations. Studying at the Arts Student League and under Gyorgy Kepes of Brooklyn College, Bass mastered the theory of Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus Design. Though he started his work in New York it was later in Los Angeles where his career flourished. In California he was recognized by the Director Otto Preminger who hired Bass to design the poster for his movie called “Carmen Jones”. Otto Preminger was so impressed by Bass that he asked him to make the title sequence for the movie. Though Bass was mostly known for his title sequences for movies and logos of corporate companies, it was his movie posters that impacted...
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor; his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning classes at the Parson’ School of Design. After he graduated from high school in 1940 he attended the School of Fine Art at Ohio State University. He was drafted however in 1943 in the middle of his education at Ohio State. While he was in the military he served in Great Britain and Europe. When he returned to the U.S. in 1946, he completed his studies for his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Ohio State University in 1949. After he got his degree he immediately began teaching at Ohio State and kept teaching there until 1951. He then taught at New York State University College, Oswego from 1957 until 1961 when he transferred and began teaching at Douglas College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ he stopped teaching there in 1963. Later that year Roy moved to New York where he was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format painting for the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibitions where Roy was represented in ...
Herbert Bayer, as Glaser explains, was an important figure bringing European ideas to the U.S. George Salter was a book designer who also taught calligraphy and lettering at Cooper Union, for whom Glaser was a student. Lester Beall was a poster artist whose consistency and graphic rigor was well respected. “I was personally influenced by Paul Rand,” says Glaser. “He created a kind of platform for everyone to work from.” Joseph Baum was actually one of Glaser’s clients, who gave Glaser the freedom and mobility to produce as desired which was necessary absolutely necessary for pure
He was labeled a terrible graphic designer in the nineties. His agonized typography drove a clique of critics to indict him of not being serious and of destroying the origins and foundation of communication design. Now, the work and techniques of David Carson dominates design, advertising, the Web, and even motion pictures.
Although today’s trends are evolving, marketing tactics are rolling back into a simpler style— minimalism. The understated art form was first expressed in New York, through paintings and large sculptures as a rebellion against artists’ expectations, such as a plethora of colors and an outburst in emotion. Hence, the controversial matter of large, symmetric, and bland sculptures composed of industrial supplies was scrutinized by the art community. But with gradual appeal to the masses and normalized inclusion in other art forms, the condescending undertones paired with minimalism has gone away. Today, minimalism is applied to fashion, plays, products, and lifestyles. However, the most prominent area affected by minimalism is the advertising
Dieter Rams, a German industrial designer, is famous for industrial design. Dieter worker for Braun who was an electrical appliance manufacturer, and he worked there as a designer from 1955 to 1995. During the time, The radios, shavers, juicers, clocks, record players and other products he designed for Braun are marvels of industrial design: beautiful, unobtrusive and simple to use. Rams had also a heavy influence on Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Designer, Jonathan Ives, for many of Apple’s well-known products. During the 1970s, according to his design experiences, Dieter Rams started to define his approach to "good design" by forming ten principles. These principles apply to all fields of design: fashion, furniture, auto, tech, etc.
Saul Bass and Steven Chorney are just two of the designers that tremendously influenced one of the most exciting forms of advertising and design. Both of these designers are well known for contributing unique designs to the film industry. They supplied their artistic talent by creating movie posters and title sequences, which are important because they set expectations and make an audience excited for motion pictures. Often people say the phrase “never judge a book by its cover”, but in the film industry the posters and trailers can sometimes affect the outcome of success or failure a movie has.
Graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister has always had a unique way of viewing the world, therefore has created designs that are both inventive and controversial. He is an Austrian designer, who works in New York but draws his design inspiration while traveling all over the world. While a sense of humor consistently appears in his designs as a frequent motif, Sagmeister is nonetheless very serious about his work. He has created projects in the most diverse and extreme of ways as a form of expression. This report will analyse three of Stefan’s most influential designs, including the motives and messages behind each piece.
Bierut graduated from the Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning in 1980. Upon graduating, he went on to work for Vignelli Associates. In his ten years with Vignelli, he ended up as the vice president of graphic design.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, political discomfort had spread over France, and posters became the dominant aspect of visual philosophy in Paris. (MiR appraisal Inc. (2011) Father of the modern poster: Jules Cheret) Posters were an expression of economic, social and cultural life, competing for entertainment audiences and goods consumers (Jeremy Howard (1996), Art Nouveau: The myth, the modern and the national, Manchester University press, The Art poster From Graphic art to design 1890 to 1914). Furthermore, poster design was an outlet for the innovative energies of gifted artists (David Raizman (2003), History of Modern design, Art Nouveau and Cheret, Lawrence King, London, P.56). This was apparent because of the progression and transformation of technology, such as colour lithography.
In 1951 Rauschenberg broke away on his own with his first solo show, although that same year he did exhibit alongside 60 other New York Abstract Expressionist artists including Pollock and Kooning and became part of the ‘New York School’ that was founded. But during the fifties he and his working partner Jasper Johns had the Abstract
A designer must be able to make his or her work visually appealing so that consumers are more likely to consider making purchases. A designer must be able to understand what a consumer wants to be able to capture his or her desires. One must listen to the needs of his or her clients and be able to interpret that information into an original and unique design. Prospective designers must be flexible and must work quickly while paying attention to the details within their designs. A designer may have several projects at once and must be able to work diligently on these projects as to finish them in a timely manner, so as not to disappoint the customer. Despite seeming like a glamorous and easy career, majority of the time designers work long hours to make ends meet with their projects (Romano 64). A designer has to consider several thousands of different images and fonts to put into his or her work to make it more visually appealing to the customer. Designers consider the fonts, images, colors, and layouts to make sure that none of the items clash in a bad way. One must do all of this while also making sure not to intrude on any copyright laws. If a designer were to break a copyright law, he or she could be fined and sued for a very large sum of money. A designer could use pictures from public domain or even take pictures for themselves
In the graphic communications world, David Carson is known as the “American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication forever” (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). He is famous for his experimental typography, and his never-thought-to-be-done-before magazine designs (David Carson, 2013). But in the beginning, he was just a regular person. On September 8, 1955, David Carson was born in Corpus Christi, Texas (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). At an early age he found his first passion of surfing, and was ranked 8th in the world (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). He soon realized that he could not make a living off of surfing so he found a new passion
‘Creative without strategy is called “art”. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising’. Creativity grabs attention. People are flooded with millions of ads each day, but screens most of them out. Creativity allows advertisements to get past the filtering process and appeal to the intended audience. (Altstiel & Grow 2012) Advertising agencies nowadays are forced to think outside the box, by looking at the bigger picture and constantly discovering new ideas and ways to grab people’s attention. A successful creative advertisement results from the ability to incorporate strategic concepts in order to draw the line between plain art and advertising. There are no rules, no patterns to creating highly creative advertising. (Lee 2000)