P-5: VC – Imagining & Imagination

















Reading 5

The Digital Era
Apple launched Mac personal computer
New technology gave more control
It changed typography

April Greiman
Computer technology as design tool
New wave design
"Transmedia" designer

Rudy Vanderlans and Zuzana Licko
Digital typefaces
New design tool
Experimentation

Edward Fella
Handmade letting
American vernacular
"Do something you haven't done before"
Expressive and playful typography

Muriel Cooper
Design for the screen
Graphic design and computer science tpgether in design
Print designer
"Why you make someting"

Steven Heller
Wrote books
Art directore for New York Times

Stephen Doyle
Typorgraphy experimentation
Art and cammerce
Colors power to connect and communicate

Paula Scher
Typography illustrations
She changed theater advertising
Intuitive designer

Michael Bierut
Bold identities
Writes for design publications
Design and creaivity understandable

John Maeda
Design and technology
Compute knowledge for designers
Writes books as well

Stefan Sagmeister
CD packaging
Pushes and provokes with his work
Opportunity to create something magnificent
Appeared nude



Reading 4

Late Modern/Postmodern
People rebelled against norms
Emphasis towards action and activism
Developments in printmaking

Ivan Chermayeff & Tom Geismar
Logos and branding identity
Abstract design in corporate identity
Design is solving problems

Yusaku Kamekura
Modernism with Japanese aesthetics
Designed logos and posters for Olympics
Originated phrase "corporate identity graphics"

Herb Lubalin
Type as image
Expressive typography
Rejected rules of traditional type
Modernism

Seymour Chwast
Illustration in designs
Uses historical styles
Inspired by comic books, Walt Disney and Victorian type
Push Pin studios

Milton Glaser
Bob Dylan poster
Historic styles, ornament and complexity
Moved past modernism

George Lois
Magazine covers
Advertising campaigns

Wim Crouwel
Typefaces for computer use
Grid systems for museum communications
Dutch design

Walter Landor
Consumer research based designs
Industrial designer before graphic designer
Design as communication

Otl Aicher
Grid based pictograms
Colorful posters and logos based on sun
Swiss design

Michael Vanderbyl
Expanded graphic design into multiple disciplines
Postmodern elements

Peter Saville
Album covers
Conceptual imagery
British
Influenced by early modern typographers