Erik Nitsche is a graphic designer whose successful career spanned everything from corporate identity to packaging design. He left a mark during his sixty year career as a designer and had a distinct style when it came to design. He said himself that he “was a Swiss in the graphic arts.” He walked into well-known places and got work immediately (Heller.) Nitsche held this heritage responsible for getting him where he was. Even though he may not be as well known as other designers, like Saul Bass and Paul Rand, he is said to be their equal (Heller.) Overall, Nitsche was an art director, graphic design, photographer, package designer, and illustrator who was known for his posters, advertisements, logos, magazine covers, book designs, and more. …show more content…
This magazine was filled with charts and graphs covering information like aerodynamics and even hydraulic systems (Iconofgraphics.) With this opportunity, he had complete control over the format and illustrations in the magazine. His passion for precision made this something Nitsche was very good at and enjoyed. Many people would cringe at the idea of designing charts about aerodynamics, but Nitsche loved it. He was tired of the fashion industry and designing meaningful data was the perfect task for him. Even though he loved this opportunity, Nitsche left Air Tech and Air News a few years later. Nitsche’s success continued and he became the Art Director for many more companies. In 1947, he became art director at Dorland International, which was also located in New York. Then in 1948, only one year later, he was art director of Mademoiselle magazine. While working for the Mademoiselle magazine he loved printing and the entire process of it. He ended up using the split fountain, a printing technique, in some of the issues. The technique was actually designed to create a rainbow effect by using two colors. One color was at the top of the ink pan, while the other was at the bottom. As the cylinders rotated the colors blended together resulting in mixed gradations (Heller.) Nitsche introduced this printing technique to the company, but it could easily damage the machinery in …show more content…
At ENI he had more success while creating things like pictorial history books and more. His pictorial books were said to be created so the pictures drove the text (Heller.) He created volumes like the histories of transportation, aviation, photography, astronomy, and chemistry. He also created a twenty volume set that helped visualize the history of music. After this experience, Nitsche had even more traveling to do. In the 1970’s, he left Switzerland and went back to Connecticut to work on children's books such as The Upside Down Box, Mr. Peewinkle’s Mailbox, among others. Then in the early 1980’s he went to Munich, Germany again where he designed record sleeves for clients and then postage stamps for the West German Ministry of Communications
Carle had a happy childhood in America. However, he moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old and attended the prestigious art school Akademie der Bildenden Künste. In 1952 he moved back to New York to return to the happy place where he grew up. He was then recruited as a graphic designer by The New York Times before he was enrolled as a mail clerk in the Korean War. Once he returned, he worked as the art director for an advertising agency (“Eric Carle”).
“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.” These words by Milton Glaser are the perfect embodiment of his work over the years. He was able to spread his message through his works of art by being simplistic and straight to the point. This simple ideology of is the reason that he is such a renowned figure in the graphic design community, and around the world, even though his name may not be known by all, his works of art have been shared, and loved by the world. He clearly is a master of modern/ abstract design, along with communicating to his audience.
Saul Bass was well-known for his design of title sequences, film posters and corporate logos. ‘During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese’(Art of the Title,2017). In the beginning of his
Theo van Doesburg was a famous Dutch painter, theorist, architect, and designer. He was the founder of Dj Stijl movement which means The Style in English. He also started to publish a magazine by the name of Dj Stijl from the year of 1917. It was an avant-garde magazine. Famous painters, designers, and architects like Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Gerrit Rietveld, and J.J.P. Oud joined this movement with Doesburg. This famous personality devoted his life to the understanding of art from the rational, essential, and universal aspects. The Will to Style is a lecture given by Doesburg and it tries to critically analyze the features of the new style which he advocated for.
Maurits Cornelius Escher was born on June 17th, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, the son of a civil engineer. A terrible student in high school, young Escher spent much of his free time drawing and sketching. His early interest in art, along with the wishes of his father, influenced his decision to attend the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. At age 21, however, M.C. dropped out after two years of study to pursue independent work in the arts.
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.
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.
When Arthur I Keller was just seven years old, he began attending the National Academy of Design, where he would begin his training to starting his career as an artist. In 1905, Bret Harte’s novel, Her Letter, His Response, and Her Last Letter was illustrated by Keller. In 1909, Emerson Hough’s work, 54-40 or Fight was also illustrated by Keller.
Many do not consider where images they see daily come from. A person can see thousands of different designs in their daily lives; these designs vary on where they are placed. A design on a shirt, an image on a billboard, or even the cover of a magazine all share something in common with one another. These items all had once been on the computer screen or on a piece of paper, designed by an artist known as a graphic designer. Graphic design is a steadily growing occupation in this day as the media has a need for original and creative designs on things like packaging or the covers of magazines. This occupation has grown over the years but still shares the basic components it once started with. Despite these tremendous amounts of growth,
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Who is Erik Erikson? In 1902, near Frankfort, Germany, Erick Erikson was born to Danish parents. During Erikson’s early years of life he found an interested in art and began to study in Europe. After a year, Erickson decided to return home to Germany, where he got accepted into art school and went towards with his passion. Many years passed and with Erikson’s degree, he started to teach art to children from different countries for abundant amount of years. Soon thereafter, he being to look at the intersection of each individual’s life and wanted to know more of historical moments created from people. From Erickson’s early finding and the variety of different interest he had during his life of his previous works. He was able to influence his own
Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer who worked in a varying range of areas such as package design, advertising, industrial, interior, architectural design and the list goes on. Vignelli was also the co-founder of Vignelli Associates, which he started with his wife Lella some years after coming to America. Vignelli’s wide area of work and expertise has all helped contribute to make him a designer of interest. He has had works that have been published all around the world and throughout many museums as well.
Graphic design is a type of art that has been around almost since the beginning of time. Its main purpose has always been to communicate something to the viewer, and this communication is being done through visuals and in some cases typography as well. An era of graphic design that revolutionized design into what we now know it as today is the Swiss design era. Specifically, work done by Armin Hofmann. His work is what kick started modern graphic design. His designs have a clean, minimal feel, which is popular even in today’s graphic design. Hofmann as well as other Swiss graphic designers in the modern art movement really set the bar for designers who came after them. The post-modern
During my whole life and experience I have been interested in the Art, Creativity, and I have been traveling around Graphics Designing. When I go out to centres, supermarkets, the high streets around Kingston anywhere in London, Germany and other parts of Europe which I have seen. I have seen lots of Graphics designs in advertising, Billboards companies for example in electronical products or any type of product the graphics advertising companies running around the world, just because of that I was inspired in the graphics designing and I was influence by the subject.