Robert Brownjohn’s most well known work is his 1964 title sequence for the second James Bond movie Goldfinger. It took some inspiration from his first Bond movie title sequence, which filmed stills being projected onto a belly dancer. The antidote is that when Brownjohn pitched the idea, he did so with himself, pushing his chest…
Little Blue and Little Yellow is a children’s story book made by Leo Lionni. This book was published in 1959. Lionni originally developed this book from a story that he had made up as he went along to captivate and entertain his grandchildren during a train ride. Usually, he would draw pictures as he told various…
Jacqueline Casey, is one of the many women in graphic design that helped shaped the world of graphic design with her illustrations in her MIT poster designs. Born on April 20, 1927 in Quincy, Massachusetts. Casey Studied at the Massachusetts college of art and design earning her bachelors in fine arts degree concentrating in fashion…
Who’s Who in Graphic Design – Meredith Davis: Tracy Sewell Meredith Davis is a Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at NC State University. Professor Emerita is “the title given to a female professor who has retired in honorable standing but still keeps the title of ‘professor’ she held directly before retirement” (Garfield). Davis previously taught…
One of the most iconic pieces by Thomas Geismar is the logo he created for Mobil. Geismar created this design in 1964. This design uses blue letters with one red letter as the “o”. This was to continue the historical use of color within the Mobil company. Geismar starts his projects by asking his clients…
“I believe that a good children’s book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don’t make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which…
Other famous work from Mehemed Fehmy Agha are these covers of Vanity Fair from 1933 and 1930. These covers reveal one of the new concepts Fehmy Agha brought to the UnIted States of America; sans serif typeface. As seen above, the use of typography completely changed the overall look of the covers. The covers look…
One of Mehemed Fehmy Agha’s famous work is this cover page of Vogue. This cover is very special for the artistic and editorial world back then because it is the very first color photo cover published by Vogue under the art direction of Mehemed Fehmy Agha. It is a cover from 1932, in the middle…
Stanley Mouse created designs for many top tier bands throughout his time as a designer but one of his most famous is a The Grateful Dead poster he made in 1966. It was one of his collaboration projects with Alton Kelley, a fellow designer Mouse worked with for 15 years. The poster was one of…
Mehemed Fehmy Agha was a Turkish designer, art director, and the first magazine editor. He was born in Russia in 1896. He received his education in Czarist Russia, with a degree in economics from Emperor Peter the Great Polytechnic Institute in Kiev as well as a degree in Oriental Languages in France, Paris. He was…
This image is from the journal Simplicissimus, showcasing most of the common notes of Thomas Theodor Heine’s style and intent behind his illustrations. This volume was released in 1898, during the most early years of the journal’s publication. Heine had worked in such settings before, having gone from art school into the business of illustrations…
The New York Times commissioned Stephen Doyle and his company for a group of temporary installations called “The Character Test” in two different schools in September 2011. The schools, one a field stem in the Bronx called Riverdale Country School, and the other, Kipp Infinity middle school in New York Harlem, were trying to teach…
Thomas Geismar is known to be one of the most influential designers in the 20thcentury. He is best known for the firm Chermayeff & Geismar, which he founded with his life-long partner, Ivan Chermayeff. For the past 40 years, Geismar has changed what it means to be a graphic designer. His designs are recognized daily…
In 1994, Paula Scher began working with the Public Theater to update the identity, graphic style, and promotional materials. Scher had recently joined Pentagram as a partner and the Public theater was one of her earlier projects that set the tone of success that was to follow. The Public Theater wanted to reach new audiences…
Stanley Mouse was born in Detroit Michigan in the year 1940 with the name Stanley George Miller. He ended up adopting the name Stanley Mouse later in his life. Growing up in a household with a Disney animator for a father led Stanley to develop an intense passion for art. This passion slowly…