Another work of art by Farhad Fozouni that I wanted to look further into is a ‘poem’ called Tight Poetry. This piece stood out to me because unlike a lot of his other work this piece is much more interactive. Instead of his typical style of contemporary graphic design, Fozouni created a physical structure made out…
*Image found at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1613652319 This image shows a bookplate made by Herbert Horne in 1895. A bookplate was used to mark someone’s name or initials inside the cover of a book to show ownership (About Bookplate). Horne made this bookplate specifically for Fred Trehawke Davies, whose monogram is shown in the intertwined perches within the…
Cornel Windlin and Gilles Gavillet’s “Game Over” is an exhibition poster designed for the Zurich Museum of Design. Like many of Windlin’s posters he made for the museum, they are used to advertise a new museum exhibit; in this case, the exhibition is about computer games. In the poster, there are multiple cubes in…
One of Farhad Fozouni’s most famous pieces of work is his Tehran Poetry, Tegel (2012). For this assignment, I decided to look further into this ‘poem’ which was an installation at the Right to Left Exhibition in Berlin. The message behind this piece is meant for his city, Tehran, where he grew up like many…
Cornel Windlin’s “Select, Arrange” is designed to be the cover of a catalog for Vitra Homes. Vitra Homes is a Swiss interior design company founded in 1953, so the cover. The cover consists of a white background with black text. There is also occasional underlining and color in the introduction for emphasis and order.…
For his work, I chose to learn more about one of his most renown exhibitions that he did in 2011 called Graphic Design: Now in Production. He did this project with the help of Ellen Lupton at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. With Ellen’s help, Blauvelt was able to show the mix of…
Another more personal project that Paul Sahre has worked on is his book titled Two Dimensional Man: A Graphic Memoir. The book was published in 2017 and Sahre worked on the cover for the book and the actual contents of the book. The cover of the book has a unique design as it doesn’t follow…
This was a poster by Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for The Scottish Musical Review. It is uncertain who exactly commissioned this poster but Mackintosh had done a couple different posters for the Musical Review. It is difficult to explain the exact reason for the poster but it was created for a magazine and for advertising…
This project was released a few years ago in the Spring of 2017. Domenic Lippa’s specialty really shows with his collaboration with Jeremy Kunze on the inaugural issue of YES&NO. Lippa has divided this magazine into really spacy sections that use smaller fonts to take up a large sum of space. YES&NO is a magazine…
Brewery company 2Dads reached out to designer Domenic Lippa of Pentagram to bring about a typographic element, and apply it to their visual elements and upcoming campaign. This is one of Lippa’s latest works and was made in November of 2021. The goal of 2Dads’ branding was to be equally refreshing for both experienced…
*Images found on – https://www.behance.net/gallery/14756033/Tehran-Monoxide-Project In 2014, Homa Delvaray created a project titled the “Tehran Monoxide Project.” It is an illustrative poster that carries the goal of spreading awareness of the Tehran air pollution, specifically, the effects it has on children of Tehran. The movement began from The Tehran Monoxide Project group, which is a…
In 1952 Franco Grignani had partnered with A & L, a printing and advertising company that gave him unprecedented freedom with his designs. During this partnership, a pharmaceutical company called Dompé asked Grignani to do a series of advertisements for them, because they valued his work so much. The owner of Dumpé (coincidentally also named…
The work above is one of 16 book covers that was designed by Franco Grignani in 1969. Penguin Books publishing house was facing an economic crisis so Penguin hired a new art director David Pelham commissioned Grignani to draw attention back to Penguin. Grigani’s work was perfect for this job because of his experimental photography…
The Elena typeface was designed by Nicole Dotin, cofounder of the Process Type Foundry, and released in 2011. Dotin may have released the font in 2011; however, she had been working on the font since she was in higher education at the University of Reading several years before. The purpose of the design of the…
This poster is a design that Robynne Raye made for the 2021 PhinneyWood Neighborhood Association Art Walk in Seattle. The walk was originally supposed to take place in 2020 but it was the start of covid-19 and the whole quarantine protocol. It was going to be their 25th year for this showcase. There are 70-80…