(maybe) THIS TIME is an exhibition designed by Rick Valicenti in 2006 for Loyola University Chicago. It explores the relationship between text and various design artefacts. The artist statement is founded on multiple concepts and responds to conversations embedded in social issues. This exhibition comments on the topic of gun violence and its impact on…
In September 1921, five Constructivist artists (Rodchenko, Stepanova, Aleksandra Ekster, Liubov Popova, and Aleksandr Vesnin) each contributed five works to the first part of a two-part exhibition in Moscow, titled 5×5=25. Rodchenko exhibited paintings titled Line and Cell, plus three monochrome canvases dated 1921: Pure Red Color, Pure Blue Color, and Pure Yellow Color This painting soon became what some would call his…
The Bloemenwerf house is in Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, Belgium. This beautiful home was designed by Henry Van de Velde as his first major piece, and venture into full architecture, although never trained in the field. After being strongly influenced by the British Arts and Crafts Movement, “art for the people, by the people”,…
As commissioned by the Grand Duke of Weimar, Henry Van de Velde grew his craft seminar to into what would be called the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar. After leaving the school in 1914, he suggested a gentleman by the name of Walter Gropius, who later combined the Arts and Crafts…
This is one of many that was shown in Shanghai at one of his solo exhibitions. This piece of art was displayed amongst other pieces Alan Chan created during the 10-month design course that eventually led him to pursue design and visual art as a career. These pieces are important because they embody the style…
Marlene McCarty, in her later years, moved from graphic design to drawing, specifically with a ballpoint pen and graphite. Focusing on social issues is always her goal, but she moved onto more working on feminist and sexual issues. In her series “Murder Girls,” Marlene drew multiple young women in see-through clothes showing and bringing emphasis…
The “knotted pencil” was one of Gene Federico’s favorite graphic design creations from his eight year time spent working at IBM in the 1960s. Designed in 1962, it was unlike the work he was most known for, as this work does not contain any form of text or visual pun. It was meant to represent…
One of Depero’s projects that first stood out to me was I balli plastici. This is a set design that was created in 1921. In 1917, Depero began to conceive of a Futurist ballet in which machine-like puppets would replace human actors and dancers. He felt that this would emphasize the Futurist ideals of technology…
George Lois is no stranger to the idea of promoting people and products in a light that seems like a work of artistic genius. In 1984, he worked in collaboration with Larry Sloman, to direct a music video for Bob Dylan’s song, from his album Infidels (Simon). This music video consists of close ups of…
Back in March 2017, Lauren Hom started a project known as Flour Crowns. On her website, she says that this project stemmed from her love for food and puns. The project can be best described as photographs of women wearing flour crowns, and yes you read that correctly, flour not flower. Hom says that as…
One of Lauren Hom’s most recent commissions was to create a mural for Google. She designed and executed a 12 foot by 16 foot hand painted mural in Google’s VR offices located in San Francisco, California with the help from her two painting assistants, Chie Tamada and Jenna Carando. The mural features the phrase, “We’re…
Harumi Yamaguchi’s commercial work largely featured powerful yet seductive women posing in fashionable outfits with vibrant color schemes, often in dynamic and active poses. Yamaguchi created work in her personal time as well, the most notable products of that time being her nudes. She painted several nudes, all titled Big Nude, in which the subject…
Noah Weaver Who’s who’s in Graphic Design Part 2 (projects) Yamaguchi Piece 2 4/3/2020 (Hello Kitty, Gungho Collab, 2014) In 2014 Hello Kitty and Friends (Sanrio) and Puzzles and Dragons (Gungho) had a multiplatform collaboration (Gungho Admin). Puzzles and Dragons is a mobile based puzzle solving game where players clear candy-crush-esque boards to…
In Liz Ogbu’s presentation, she talks about her experience being an architect. She explains that her job description does not neatly fall into a category. She instead explains that she would instead call herself an expert citizen, story-teller and a translator. When Ogbu talks about how she is an expert citizen she explains that an…
I believe history books in the future will look back at the last 30 years and the upcoming decades as a turning point for human societies. This is because our technology, networks, and relationships are evolving quicker now than they ever have. This is both scary and exciting. To make our future more exciting, interaction…