Boston – Boston (1976) Design: Paula Scher Illustration:Roger Huyssen After graduating from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1970, Paula Scher became the East Coast art director at CBS Records in New York City at the age of 25. From 1972 until 1982, Scher designed approximately 150 album covers per year and produced…
Done in 2014, this branding project done by Sami Hayek and Rebeca Mendez for Latino Brands Inc. was for a new cafe concept. This concept was around the warmth and homely feel of a latina grandmother’s home and kitchen. This project perfectly encompasses some of the things that Rebeca Mendez stands and designs for. Through…
This piece, commissioned by Tsunami Asian Grill Restaurant, is a 20,000 square foot long collage that spans the entirety of the grill, depicting a Japanese woman seeming to dissolve into the water. This piece interested me the most out of the others that I could’ve worked on, because of its sheer size, and how the…
Texaco Gas Station Design Though not as seemingly monumental as some of his other pieces, Walter Dorwin Teague’s Texaco Gas Station design deserves to be in his portfolio because of how widespread it became. Imagine driving down the interstate with your family on a roadtrip for miles and miles. You come across a gas station…
Kodak Partnership Walter Dorwin Teague’s first huge contract was with Kodak. Interestingly this partnership began in the late 1920s/early 1930s when the country was on the brink of crisis, on the verge of the Great Depression, and in between two world wars. As I wrote in Teague’s bio: “Why, one might ask, was a company…
This project is a soccer jersey for the England football team home shirt / jersey. I feel like this design is important to show in Peter Saville’s portfolio because it represents many different facets of his life. Saville was a designer and artists for many other things other than just album covers, even though album…
“The End of the Plain Plane” Brancliff International Airlines 1965 Mary Wells Lawrence tackled the Braniff International Airlines campaign with Richard Rich and Stuart Greene when they were working under DDB. Harding Lawrence, the president of Braniff Airlines, wanted a new idea, an idea so big it would flood the news and all of…
Caption: Katherine McCoy, Cranbrook Design Academy Poster, 1971 Post: This poster is an advertisement for the Cranbrook Design Academy. It was designed by Katherine McCoy in 1971, which is at the same time in which she started her company, McCoy & McCoy, as well as the same time period in which she was appointed…
Caption: Katherine McCoy, Chicago Bears Headquarters, Chicago, 1999 Post: This logo is located outside of the headquarters for the Chicago Bears football team. This signage was designed by Katherine McCoy and it was commissioned by the Chicago Bears, who are a National Football League team based out of Chicago. The sign was designed to…
Image Caption: Katherine McCoy, Ticket Counter Poster at Frontier Airlines, Saint Louis, 1968 Post: This is a poster at the ticket counter for Frontier Airlines. It was designed while Katherine McCoy was at Unimaker Design in 1967. She designed this poster to hang over the ticket counter, and it was commissioned by Frontier through…
My chosen trope for this assignment, Asian stereotypes, has been very present in media for many years. Because this can date back to the time of the Chinese Exclusion act in 1882, if not much earlier, the earliest forms came in political cartoons. In present day media, we can see many memes involving the common…
The trope that I decided to pick was the Little Dutch Boy. This trope is more American than Dutch, since the book that popularized this symbol was written by an American author. Despite this, this trope is used often to establish trust in a brand, and show it as a brand that “saves the day”…
The 1947 film, Don’t Be a Sucker, was produced by the U.S. War Department as a means of propaganda following the end of World War II. This film contains a variety of rhetoric that influences and persuades the viewer through a compelling message. Although this is a propaganda piece, it also acts as a narrative.…
For my trope, I decided on the flag of the United States. This one I feel is especially relevant given the current tensions and situations that are occurring in our country. At the center of much of the imagery, the flag has played a key role in representing the ideals of all sides of the…
Nurses Whether it is guardian on the battlefront, or vixen in the emergency room, the representation of the nurse has changed and developed over time to reflect the different ideas of nurses, like gender roles and norms, as well as healthcare and medicine. Cigarette Advertisement Here is an advertisement from 1932 for Camel cigarettes featuring a nurse. The very…