Nelson Mandela’s children hospital in Africa was posed with the issue of making an inherently stressful place less stressful. The designers used a way finding system to make it easier for families to navigate, and thus ease some unnecessary stress. To begin, they based the system off of one central metaphor. Since the hospital was…
If a graphic designer is truly frustrated, there is always the option of simply using the work of earlier designers (now out of copyright!). Designer Unknown, Poster for LCD Soundsystem performance, Brooklyn, NY, 2017 The original is by Peter Behrens, Poster for AEG Metal filament bulbs, Germany, 1907
Henry Van De Velde, Poster for Tropon, 1892-93: “Tropon est l’Aliment le plus concentre” OK, so here is how intuitive reasoning works to your detriment: What IS “the most concentrated foodstuff?” I thought it must be either honey or oil, thus my confusion with Toorop’s poster for Delftsche Peanut Oil. The people who brought you…
Jan Toorop (1858-1928) designed this poster around the same time as Henry Van De Velde finished his famous poster for Tropon. I got the two confused in my book American Design in 2008, and called Tropon (the product) a salad oil. It is not. It is a protein supplement derived from egg whites and came in…
Ben Fry is a designer that specializes in data design, professionally said, computational information design. He uses data and visualizes that data in a way that tells a story or answers a question. He’s worked with marketing teams to display data and he’s worked with scientists and doctors to easily access different information needed for…