Debbie- Milton Glaser Magazines & Music Albums

In 1983 he founded the company WBMG, a studio dedicated to magazine and newspaper design work, with Walter Bernard (former art director of ‘time’). since its inception, they have designed more than 50 magazines, newspapers and periodicals around the world : among them ‘la vanguardia’ in barcelona,‘o globo’ in rio de janeiro, l’espresso in rome ‘the washington post',‘money’, the french ‘the nation’, ‘paris match’, ‘l´express’,‘esquire’,‘jardin des modes’, and ‘business tokyo’ in Japan.

Milton Glaser was also responsible for identity programs for more than a few labels, and, in the case of Poppy and Tomato, created a distinctive visual signature for most everything those businesses sent out into the world.

Milton Glaser was responsible for most of the blues and roots albums as the main creative force behind tomato records. These not only included Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone and many other famous blues musicians as well as designing tomato records many completion albums.

Milton Glaser is still designing new album covers today at the the age of 82yrs old, including Vanessa Hudgens album cover.

Links

http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/printmaterial/print_index.html

http://www.coldsplinters.com/2008/11/milton-glaser-tomato/

http://containerlist.glaserarchives.org/index.php?id=153

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Biography-of-Milton-Glaser&id=4315873

POST 6: MUSIC, MAGS AND MOTION PICTURES

Discuss the contribution to graphics for the magazine, motion picture and music industry by one of your selected designers. 200 words, 5 links 5 images.

Greiman Posters - Kate Hemensley

April Greiman in 1985, produced her groundbreaking project for Design Quarterly. The magazine unfolded accordion-style into a single page that measured two feet by six feet. The central image was a life-size, digitized, nude self-portrait of Greiman. It was no conventional collage; many of the technological advances that followed in the graphic design community can be directly traced back to this daring issue.

'Does it make sense' 1985

Greiman mixes still photography with video imagery, artwork, calligraphy, and animation. The technique provides Greiman with an entirely different palette of patterns, colors, and forms including diagonals, lowercase type, and color bars.

While studying at the Kansas City Art Institute, Greiman was introduced to the principles of Modernism. Inspired by this experience, she went to Basel for graduate school. As a student of Armin Hoffman and Wolfgang Weingart in the early 1970's. Weingart introduced his students to concepts such as wide letterspacing, changing type weights or styles within a single word, and the use of type set on an angle were explored, not as mere stylistic indulgences but in an effort to expand typographic communication more meaningfully.

She continued to explore typographic meaning and began experimenting with ways to alter the two-dimensional space of the page and reimagine it as a more three- and four-dimensional continuum of time and space. Greiman's collaboration with Jayme Odgers formed a creative partnership that produced some highly visible work. These projects included a 1979 poster for California Institute of the Arts, and a poster, designed in 1982, for the 1984 Olympics.

Links

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist%2Daprilgreiman

http://www.artandculture.com/users/36-april-greiman

http://www.designhistory.org/Post_mod.html

http://www.dexigner.com/news/15109

http://www.google.com.au/images

Mike Svoboda

Milton Glaser





Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designer in the United States. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. In 2004 he was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. As a Fulbright scholar, Glaser studied with the painter, Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, and is an articulate spokesman for the ethical practice of design. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.




Best known for his "i love New York" logo, Bob Dylan poster and the "DC Bullet" logo used by DC comics from 1977-2005. Also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.




Glaser was made an Honorary Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in 1979; he was also made a member of the Alliance Graphic International. In 2009, President Barack Obama decorated him with the 'National Medal of Arts Award.










Links

http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/mg_index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Biography-of-Milton-Glaser&id=4315873
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWmJcR-x_hc
http://www.ted.com/speakers/milton_glaser.html

Tim Biskup (Luca De Michele)

Tim Biskup born in 1967 in Santa Monca, California. He is a fine artistwhosework has been shown worldwide, including galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Barcelona, Berlin and Melbourne. He's collaborated with artists and designers around the globe and organized art auctions and exhibitions.
He works with playful and vibrant psychedelic imagery in the pop-design genre that emerged in the late 20th century through such diverse media as silkscreening, textile production, and rotocast vinyl.

In recent years his work has taken on a more serious tone, driving his self-proclaimed "baroque modernism"into darker territory. Tim grew up on a blend of Disneyland, ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, classic cartoons & Godzilla movies. He spent his teen years in the anarchy of punk rock & the weirdness of the Residents.

He'smatured with thebeauty of 50's and 60's modern designers like James Flora & Mary Blair. These influences, as well as his years of experience in animation, have pushed him towards his manic, spontaneous style.

http://www.myspace.com/tbiskup

http://www.timbiskup.com/

http://tim-biskup.blogspot.com/

http://www.signatureillustration.org/illustration-blog/tag/tim-biskup/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Biskup

Tibor Kalman (Luca De Michele)

Tibor Kalman was born inBudapest, Hungary in 1949 and emigrated to US with his family in 1956. From 1967-70 he studied journalism at New York University, where he worked on the university newspaper and joined the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). From 1968 he worked for the one-store company that eventually became the Barnes & Noble bookshop empire, creating window displays, store designs, signs and advertisements.

In 1979 Kalman left to found hisown design firm, M&Co. Tibor also beame an influential product designer. His brand of humor was even rarer in industrial design than in graphics, and thefamous M&Co wristwatches and clock faces with randomly ordered numbers still sell all over the world. Then he became an influential filmmaker. After that, he became an influential conjurer of three-dimensional places as well.

And, finally, in the nineties, he became an editor, creating the quixotic, smart,photo-driven magazine Colors, for Benetton.Today the influence of M&Co is still strong, both as a result of its work and that of the many designers, like Stefan Sagmaister, who worked there and went on to start their own design studios in New York City.He died at the age of 45 in Puerto Rico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Kalman

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-tiborkalman

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=30&fid=167

http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/05/19/kalman

http://www.undesign.org/

Mike Svoboda

Stefan Sagmeister
5 Posters




Poster for a design exhibit in Zurich, depicting Stefan Sagmeister and Matthias Ernstberger wearing suits. These suits represent charts showing the number of times any of there design pieces have been pictured in design magazines, catalogs and annuals. Over the years the Lou Reed poster has been shown 101 times, (so it is shown largest) while the Anni Kuan brochure has been pictured only 7 times, which makes it the smallest.



A part of the 2010 marketing campaign for Levi's 501, the "Button Fly Poster" featured a giant common house fly in mosaic with none other than Levi Strauss and Co. buttons large and small. It won the top honors at the prestigious international poster Biennale in Warsaw.



Poster for AIGA lecture in Cranbrook, Michigan, 1999. Sagmeister had the words carved into his skin with an X-acto knife by his assistant to try and visualize the pain that accompanies each of his design projects. Sunning himself on a beach the following summer, he noticed traces of the poster text rising in pink as his flesh tanned.

Apostrophe Poster

This was part of a series of punctuation symbols, where each symbol was celebrated on a poster designed by a different designer. It wound up with the apostrophe, whos job it is to eliminate a letter. Hence the warm gun...

This poster for an exhibit in Chaumont, France features all the people who had a significant influence on his work. They were all handpainted by tourist illustrators found in New York's Central park.

Links:

http://www.sagmeister.com/work/featured

http://designmuseum.org/design/stefan-sagmeister
http://designboom.com/eng/interview/segmeister.html
http://freshnessmag.com
www.wikipedia.com