Carolyn Davidson was born in 1943 and attended Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She originally started as a journalism major at the university and later switched to a graphic design major after taking a course in which she quoted as to “fill an empty elective”. Her most famous work you have probably seen before…
Archive for April, 2022
Zhou Peng Art
For another look at Zhou Peng’s exceptional art, I have chosen the “Negative-Overflowing Desire” piece. This art through the lens of the artist is supposed to represent negativity and jealousy that can collect over time. I think this piece has so much meaning as the bundle of collective negativity blocks the light stream which can…
Zhou Peng’s Art
One of the art pieces I picked out to look at by Zhou Peng is called “Self-Portrait”. It is a mixed media design created by printing out a picture of himself on paper, taking the picture, and burning it in certain places. The portrait is mostly ash but there is still a faintly visible eye…
Who’s Who in Graphic Design: Zhou Peng
Zhou Peng is a fine art photographer who originated from Shanghai, China. He first started out as an oil painter as well as shooting photography for commercial agencies before shifting to art photography and mixed media after moving to the United States where he really started to consider himself a craftsman and artist. He studied…
Come to Daddy Remixed (CD)
Ian Anderson and The Designers Republic origins are without a doubt in the music scene, with their earliest works creating club posters, event fliers and album covers for the bands they knew and frequently worked with. In the 90s, they became a key collaborator with the Sheffield imprint Warp Records designing various covers and even…
Wip3out
One of The Designers Republic most ambitious projects was work for the game series Wipeout. Wipeout was a series of futuristic racing games by Psygnosis studios for the original PlayStation. TDR was originally tasked with the packaging for the game, but eventually went on to design the in-game menus, in game artwork and the overall…
The Designers Republic
The graphic design studio The Designers Republic (abbreviated as TDR) was founded by Ian Anderson in 1986 (pictured above). Anderson was born in 1961 Croydon, London and moved to Yorkshire to study philosophy at The University of Sheffield from 1979-1982. He quickly became engrained in the local music scene and became an entirely self-taught designer…
Part I – Biography of Wolff Olins (Design Agency)
Wolff Olins is a global design agency that has been creating transformative brands with the goal to move organizations, people, and the world forward. Operating for over 50 years, they have been responsible for delivering strategy, design and change to help advance organizations in moments of inflection. Some of their organizations and partners include The…
Bloomberg Billionares
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index visualizes the daily ranking of the world’s richest people. It dynamically measures billionaires’ wealth every business day at 5:30 p.m. EST based on several factors, like changes in markets, the economy, and Bloomberg News reporting. Lisa Strausfeld worked on this project at Bloomberg in 2013 with her team Hilla Katki, Christopher…
VR Prototype for The New Historia
“It’s almost like Google Earth for knowledge.” This work is an in progress project that Lisa and her team have been developing. It is their first prototype that explores the opportunities for understanding information in the realms of a three dimensional space. The goal is to create a new paradigm in the data world with…
Lisa Strausfeld
Lisa Strausfeld is an American Designer that specializes in information architect and data visualization. She is the principal of Informationart and currently leads design at System: a free public resource whose goal is to connect and explain the relations of anything to everything in the world. Strausfeld was born in 1964 New Jersey and was…
Faliurism Manifesto
Faliurism Manifesto, another one of Can Yang’s works done during her time at Rhode Island School of Design, displays her own manifesto where she drew inspiration from composer and artist John Cage’s work about creating spontaneous, random decisions. For her own work, she used the idea of failure in “how sometimes things that are unintended…
White Tiger / Blue Dragon
is one of Can Yang’s works during her time at Rhode Island School of Design. The title was inspired by mythological creatures in the Chinese constellations, Azure Dragon of the East representing Spring, Black Tortoise of the North representing Winter, White Tiger of the West representing Fall, and Vermillion Bird of the South representing Summer.…
Can Yang
Can Yang is a freelance graphic designer based in London born in the year 1994. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2018 in BFA Graphic Design and recently graduated from Royal College of Art in 2021 in MA Design and Visual Communications. She is a multidisciplinary artist working with different mediums…
Kazumasa Nagai
Kazumasa Nagai, a modernist and Japanese traditionalist. This famed graphic designer was born on April 20th, 1929 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He had begun to study sculpture at Tokyo National University of Art, but had dropped out in 1951 due complications with his fundus hemorrhage. Caused by overworking before and after WW2, his hemorrhage…