Graphic Design: 2012

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Graphic designer Jerod Gibson’s reimagined movie posters are Amazing, some great movie quotes !

Some great Star Wars typography

Sources i used for my Essay

Books

Frank Whitford, Bauhaus, 1984, Thames & Hudson ltd London

Anna Rowland, Bauhaus Source Book, 1990, Phaidon Press Limited Oxford

Web

Bauhaus graphic designhttp://designhistory.org/bauhaus3 .html

Bauhaus (2012) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus

Bauhaus Documentary 1-3(Dec 4, 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZOqTFtEHAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyEDZD0rl6U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq8AnYL5-30&feature=related

A brief and patchy history of Western Graphic Design since about 1000BC: http://www.princehouse.co.uk/graphic-design%20/design.html

Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration by Sharon Ross: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/02/bauhaus-ninety-years-of-inspiration/

My Quote

The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."

Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000 devoted to challenging consumerism. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Christopher Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Barnbrook, David Graeber, Simon Critchley, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt, David Orrell and others.

Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire and Casseurs de Pub in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Bauhaus Graphics

Starting my essay with the help these two books of bauhaus plus the help of the internet any other good info please share
books are available from the belfast met LCR

Ad Busters

My next part of research will be on the Ad Busters
here is a short video on Ad Busters

Wednesday 25 January 2012

About the Design Council

www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/

Range of designers the Design Council works with

Designers work with us in many other ways, whether it’s sitting on the board of trustees that guides our strategy, running Challenge projects, speaking at events or promoting the value of professional development to the design industry.

Deborah Szebeko, founder of service design agency thinkpublic.

Deborah led a Dott 07 project investigating how to improve everyday life for people with Alzheimer’s, their carers and service providers

Tom Lloyd, co-founder with Luke Pearson of multi-disciplinary consultancy PearsonLloyd.

Tom and Luke were interviewed by us about their career in design for the About Design section of our website.

Helen Hughes, sustainability strategist at Design Bridge.

Helen and a team of designers at Design Bridge created anti-shatter pint glass prototypes, that prevent injuries from being inflicted by glassings, as part of the Design Out Crimeprogramme.

Ben de Lisi, fashion and interiors designer.

Ben designed a new patient gown as part of the Design for Patient Dignity project.

Tom Dixon, one of the UK's most prominent furniture designers.

Tom was part of the judging panel choosing teams of designers and manufacturers to take part in our Design Bugs Out project, which challenged teams of designers and manufacturers to develop hospital furniture and equipment that cuts the risk of infections like MRSA.

Martin Bontoft, who advises clients like the NHS, Gillette and the BBC on how to respond to the customer needs that his research uncovers.

Martin has helped us conduct ethnographic research and with project scoping for theReducing violence and aggression in A&E by design programme.

www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/Who-we-work-with//Designers/

History of the Design Council

The Design Council started in 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design. It was founded by Hugh Dalton, President of the Board of Trade in the wartime Government, and its objective was 'to promote by all practicable means the improvement of design in the products of British industry'.

The Council of Industrial Design's first director, S C Leslie, played a leading role in the Britain Can Make It exhibition of 1946, but it was Sir Gordon Russell, Leslie's replacement in 1947, who would set the model for the organisation for the next 40 years. He once described the job as 'pushing a tank uphill'.

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