Prior to being a typographic designer and creator of Gill Sans, Eric Gill trained as an architect and a sculptor. One of his most famous sculptures is his rendition of the Stations of the Cross as commissioned by the Westminster Cathedral in London from 1914-1918. Stations of the Cross is a series of fourteen images…
This piece is a magazine cover created by Henry Wolf for Harper’s Bazaar in 1958. Harper’s Bazaar is a woman’s fashion magazine and this cover was produced during his first year working for the publication. Wolf was very precise in the fact he only included parts that had a meaning and message into his pieces.…
As the oldest bank in China, the Bank of China is a government-owned bank founded in 1912. Kan Tai-Keung was invited to design the logo for the Bank of China in 1908. With the hope to bring the bank financial success and good fortune, the graphical representation of the logo is an ancient Chinese coin.…
Deepdene is one of the many famous typefaces created by graphic designer Frederic Goudy. Created in 1927, the typeface has a fascinating tale of corporate jealousy and property rights behind it. Originally inspired by William Edwin Rudge, who upon seeing a one of Goudy’s particularly sculpted words on the title page of a book (pictured…
In 2020, Netflix commissioned Kate and Studio Moross to create ten portraits of transgender talent featured on the platform to celebrate Transgender Awareness Week. All the portraits were of actors featured in Netflix productions, including Laverne Cox and Lachlan Watson. One of Kate’s goals is to use their voice to help others expand beyond gender…
Pentagram and the team at Samsung collaborated together to create a cohesive design interface for the Samsung Galaxy S8. Samsung wanted this new smartphone to carry its iconographic designs throughout the entire interface, so they turned to Pentagram, Eddie Opara, and his team. The goal was to create icons for the entire system, a design…
This piece was featured as the cover for the 2020 edition of “The Black List”. The company under the same name commissioned Eddie Opara’s team at Pentagram to create a cover for their annual list of “the most liked unproduced screenplays of the year” (“The Black List”, Pentagram). The cover was going to be very…
Peter Behrens most iconic design project is arguably the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (also known as AEG) turbine factory. The contributions of Peter Behrens upon this project grew his name and value in the design community and set him aside from others. Commissioned in 1907, with no prior formal architecture experience, Behrens took on the collaborative project.…
The creation of the typeface for the German company Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, also known by the acronym AEG, was an important project completed by designer Peter Behrens. After the design of the AEG factory by Peter Behrens, the company consulted with him again in order to rebrand themselves. This typeface was specifically designed for AEG and…
Print Design: During the late 1800s, there was a spike in industrial production and food processing, this included foods such as “coffee, cocoa, and a range of meat and dairy products”. The explosion of commercial companies led to competitive market advertising and the establishment of “brand Identities”. Leading to decorative illustrations placed on boxes, cans,…
Basis This original encaustic painting, titled “Christ Pantocrator”, was first completed in the 6th-century, will be the basis of the following interpretations. The painting depicts Jesus as the Christ in a classical Byzantine style, which often aims to capture the duality of Jesus as a figure of both divine and human nature. Many metonymic tropes…
Bananas have long been a fascination in pop culture for their bright, distinctive appearance and their ubiquity for Western consumers. They have been utilized in all kinds of lighthearted media as cartoon characters and comedic symbols. They have also often been used in propaganda, advertisements, and arts to represent sexual metaphors and exoticism. The main…
The trope I have chosen is Mother. A mother represents an individual’s female parent who ultimately helps protect you and gives you life. This can be shown in the example above. However, in these next three examples shown below, a mother will be represented or perceived in a new way based on what is being…
The Hispanic/Latino/Mexican trope in the media is a contentious one (and for good reason). Often times the use of a Hispanic person or reference to Hispanic culture in advertising is deeply rooted in stereotypical ideas produced by non-Hispanics. Stereotypes relating to appearances, crime, laziness, “job-stealing”, education, and others appear across all forms of media still…
Throughout time, owls have always been viewed as wise. Even the term “wise-owl” has become a readily used term in conversation. When one thinks of an owl, it is not too far fetched to think of them as being intelligent, scholarly, glasses wearing creatures. Some believe the reason behind this correlation between owls and intelligence…