After watching the lecture about film title design, I got very interested in film title design and spend extra time looking for some of the famous film title designs. The one I am going to talk about today is a movie called “Catch me If you can”. The movie is one of my favorite movies.…
Matthew Carter was a very well-known font type typographic designer. More than that, he created font types to solve certain problems as well. This is just one of the fonts that he created in order solve one of the problems that America had. Bell Centennial is a realist sans-serif realistic typeface designed between 1978. It…
Ganashtaru, meaning “Enemy of the People,” is an Indian film made by Satyajit Ray. This movie is an adaptation of a Norweigan writer Henry Ibsen’s play, An Enemy of the People. Ray was known to create posters that captured the essence of his story instead of merely advertising it, which was more common at the…
(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…
Hisui Sugiura, born 1876, was a Japanese graphic designer and commercial artist whose unique style flourished during the Japanese industry boom of the 1910s,20s and early 30s. Originally studying Japanese-style painting at school, Hisui Sugiura changed to a career in design after being inspired by the Art Nouveau movement. Hisui began his professional career in…
Within Matthew Carter’s life, there have been many accomplishments and projects that he has been proud to be a part of. One of the most unusual projects that Carter has been involved with was a font called Van Lanen. He was creating this project for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. This was an…
Satyajit Ray, born in Kolkata, India on May 2nd, 1921. He was also a screenwriter, author, graphic designer, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, publisher, and movie critic. Ray was born into a Bengali family which was renowned in the field of arts and literature. His grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, was a famous Bengali writer and illustrator,…
An elegant and smart typographic designer, Matthew Carter is a very well-known person. With being stated as ‘the most widely read man in the world’ due to his significance in the amount of typing that he has accomplished, Matthew Carter has been recognized as significant designer of type within America. Matthew Carter was born on…
This poster was created in 1914 by Hisui Sugiura for the Mitsubishi car company in Japan. Having began his professional career six years earlier in 1908 working for the catalog the Mitsukoshi Times as a cover designer, Sugiura would have gained experience by this point in how to effectively catch one’s eye. This experience shows…
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…
Among Susan Kare’s repertoire of user interface related projects is her work for Facebook’s “Gifts” feature. This facebook feature’s purpose was to allow people to purchase digital “gifts” sent to other people as ways of showing that they were thinking about them or wanted to do something kind, for $1 each. The proceeds for these…
Fluidity Design Consultant was founded by Rick Valicenti in 2002. This firm is based in Los Angeles and centers around engineer water features in design. This coalition was inspired by the search to integrate various elements of water as an expression in design. Through this quest, a great number of projects have been initiated and…
“Dance, an Objectless Composition”was created by Alexander Rodchenko in 1915. It is an abstract Oil on Canvas painting that is not housed in The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Though, Dance is a ‘Futuristic’ work, coincidentally Alexander Rodchenko anatomizes the subject. The painting appears to be somewhat of an emotional outburst. In consonance…
This poster was created in 1927 by Hisui Suiura. Orgionally created as an advertisement for the opening of the first subway system in Japan, this piece, titled: “The Ony Subway in the East”, has become an iconic symbol of Japanese modernization in the early 20th century. Often considered to be the most iconic Japanese graphic…
About the Chicago Typeface Among the most important projects undertaken by graphic designer Susan Kare, who is known for her early work at an emerging Apple Computer, was her typographical work. She was responsible for designing the default system typeface for the Macintosh, which was the typeface whose character defined the first contact with personal…