The design world has many recognized graphic designers that have left and still are leaving a great legacy in the visual communication’s world. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two of the AIGA medalist of 2014 that have proved many accomplishments to deserve the recognition of the AIGA medal. The AIGA medal is the most distinguished in the field and is awarded for exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the design and visual communication field. Abbott Miller and Alexander Isley were two graphic designers out of 24 chosen for the medal in 2014 for their contributions in the practice of design, teaching, writing and leadership. Abbot Miller and Alexander Isley are both very creative, yet both of them …show more content…
Miller has many contributions to the design world with exhibition designs and catalogues that are connected to Mathew Barney in motorcycles and superheroes. Miller has contributed to magazines art directing and reset the bar for editorial design. Miller is very creative and is able to accomplish anything he sets his mind in doing. Miller presents his work as a catalog of design strategies, emerging from the unique circumstances of form and content (Lasky, 2014). The latest venture is with the technology of today where he is working on iPod apps for dance and …show more content…
Meanwhile Miller, at the initiation of his carrier knew what was he desired, Abbott Miller was inspired by Geoge Sadek (a graphic designer that modified the approach of teaching graphic design.) Hans Haacke, (insist on the responsibility of an artist has with politics), and Niki Logis (think on the expression that a sculpture bring to the audience) (AIGA, 2014).
Abbott Miller and Alexander Isley have designed for books, magazines, catalogs and exhibits, furthermore they worked with curator, performers, artist, photographers, writers, publishers, corporations, and institutions. Creating a renowned portfolio with their own methodology of design. Abbott M. uses the theory of the Bauhaus to design and elevate culture in the audience. On the other hand, Alexander uses design to spark the imagination, and pure typography as methodology to accomplish his
Paul Duncum initially graduated college with a degree in graphic design in 1970, from Sydney Technical College. In 1974 he returned back to school and began work on his B.A. at the Flinders University of South Australia, in Art history and theory, which he completed in 1977. Duncum also received his graduate diploma from Adelaide College of Arts and Education in art education in 1979. According to the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, he then went back to Flinders University in 1981 to being working to get his P.h.d in Art Education. During this time he was also teaching high school art and design. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2003) Paul Duncum then started his current career as a college lecturer and professor. His first lecturing position was at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education in the visual arts curriculum. A year later he moved on the Central Queensland University as a senior lecturer in the visual arts curriculum. In 1...
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April Grieman was born in New York City in 1948. She studied art in Switzerland at Basel School of Design. She then studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. After graduating, she moved back to New York City to work as a freelance artist until 1976. This same year, she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she opened “Made in Space, Inc.” This became a well-known graphic design studio. In 1980, April Greiman was among the very first graphic designers to fully realize the design potential in the Macintosh Apple computer. She also picked up on Quantel Painbox digital technology. She is one of the most influential graphic designers using the digital media. In 1982, Greiman became the head of the design department at the California Institute of the Arts. In the 1990’s, she wrote and published a book called “Hybrid Imagery: The Fusion of Technology and Graphic Design.” April Greiman has worked as a designer for the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles. Since then, April continues to work today for companies such as Espirit, Benetton, Sears, and AOL/ Time- Warner, Microsoft, the US Postal Services, and the architects Frank O. Gehry, RoTo Architects, and others. April Greiman has received numerous awards and distinctions for her work.
Art is something strange and even meaningless in my family tradition. I am from a family of the medical discourse community. Most of my family members have medical degrees. Therefore, they hoped that I could follow the family tradition. However, I chose to follow my dream. According to the book, East Eats West, by Andrew Lam, he mentioned ““America will tell you to look out for number one, to think for yourself […] follow your dream … take care of yourself first … you cannot make anyone else happy if you don’t love yourself” (45). I have to make myself happy before helping and satisfying other people. Therefore, I chose to continue my education in the Digital Media Art (DMA) field because I love technology and art. I believe that I will do well in this profession. Art is created for many reasons, and art can be beautiful, frightening, or provocation (Barrio). In order to explain the discourse community of Digital Media Art, I will use the interview that I had with Ms. A, a professional artist in Graphic Design, and some other research articles. I will include the background and experience, career path, and writing and communication skills of an artist. Also, I will conclude into my writing what surprised me during the interview and what I need to do to make my goal real in the
It’s often unacknowledged that there are designers that are behind creating and drawing out the designs we see on our everyday products, whether it be toilet paper, bleach, or a can of soup. There are people behind creating the enticing labels that urge us to crave and need that product. Andy Warhol shined a light on a whole world of unrecognised artists,
Carson is a designer whose unorthodox graphic style played a major role in his success in the design world. His sense of typography is original and unique in a way that he does not follow the basis of communication design. For example, his arrangement of text is not what we would normally see which is in order but positioned in disarray creating chaos and confusion which is new and refreshing. His use of interesting visual simultaneously with typography creates an out of the ordinary design where sometimes the images are deliberately obscuring the text that goes with it and occasionally creating an unfinished sentence or word.
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.
As an option of hunting down online style magazines, you'll crave to scan for online sites. There is an expansive scope of online web locales that are made to supply you with free design recommendations. These web destinations may not ceaselessly be redesigned on a steady premise, yet they are much of the time an extraordinary, free approach to comprehend with respect to the latest in the style environment. Truth be told, you'll likewise find that an enormous scope of on the web fashion internet locales have on the web message sheets or on the web message gatherings. These are little groups where you can interface and talk with respects to design with other web parts. On the web message sheets and discussions make learning with respects to design not simply free, all things considered likewise charming and
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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,
Howard Gardner has studied many creative masters within the context of his theory of the three core elements of creativity. These include the relation between the child and the adult creator, the relation between the creator and others, and the relation between the creator and his or her work. Karen Horney’s childhood and adult life have been reflected in much of her work. She was born in 1885, the end of the Victorian era. Horney’s father was a “God-fearing fundamentalist who strongly believed that women were inferior to men and were the source of all evil in the world” (Hergenhahn & Olson...
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Artmaking practice has significantly evolved to reflect the changing nature of contemporary society. In the prescribed artists Brett Whitely and Damien Hirst, there is evidence of these contemporary artists redefying and challenging the boundaries of art-making practices. This being achieved by making very controversial artworks and using artmaking practices. The artists have used these to present the artworks in a manner that not only enables the audience to engage with it also lets the
My inspirations are focus on mostly the graphics designing, although I have chosen to do applied art and design as a A levels subject I would like to discover the graphic designing in more detailed and depth and in future hope to do an idea which would be a applied art and design the graphics.