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The Tate Museum defines modernism as… a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life. Building on late nineteenth-century precedents, artists around the world used new imagery, materials and techniques to create artworks that…
Paula Scher… Paula Scher was born in 1948 and is an illustrator, painter, graphic designer and art educator. She was the first female principle of Pentagram, when she joined in 1991. The New York approach to retro began with a small group of designers including Scher. They rediscovered earlier 20th century graphics ranging from…
Before, after and during the First World War there was a revolution brewing across Europe and Russia. There was a need to break away from reminders of the war and it was led by a new generation of artists who brought about major changes. Revolution shaped the way for new art styles to emerge, following…
Final Three Outcomes 01) Rocket Launch My inspiration behind this type screen specimen was the Apollo 11 mission rocket. I built a rocket silhouette using the title font of ‘FUTURA’ and then by changing the alignment of the small paragraph, placed it as the smoke and fire behind. The broken circle represents the rocket leaving…
Una Kravets Una Kravets is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google Chrome from New York. Her role is to work on improving the extensibility and styling on different web platforms to help UI developers and design systems engineers. Kravets completed a degree in Design and Applied Arts at the Studio Arts College International,…
Jon Hicks Jon Hicks was born on October 28, 1972, inn Leamington Spa and is an English designer who owns his own studio, Hicksdesign. He would be best known for rendering the Firefox logo into its final and most recent form. At age 16 he left school to study Technical Illustration for two years,…
“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind” -Wendell Phillips Before we covered this topic, I knew what a printing press was, but I wasn’t aware of the scale of which it changed the printing and typographic world. One thing that stood out to me from the lecture was the…
noun. The style and appearance of printed matter. The art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it. Before I began researching specifically into type specimen, I wanted to make sure I fully understood what typography was. I had a basic knowledge to it; that I knew what it looked like….
“Uniquely exciting time to be designing user interface and digital tools” Wilson Miner is a digital product designer working in San Francisco. He has worked as an interactive designer for Apple in 2006 and gave a talk called ‘When We Build’ in 2011 about how we shape our environment through what we design. After watching…