Martin’s Champions Design was brought on for the 1619 Project, a reorganization of American History to include the Black American experience in society presented in book form. Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Martin’s team worked to organize the book’s layout and imagery to best portray the message of the overarching themes. Incorporating poetry at the beginnings…
Klavika is a typeface designed by Eric Olson, cofounder of the Process Type Foundry. This font style is quite famous, being offered on most writing platforms, such as Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and more. The Klavika typeface was officially released by the process Process Type Foundry in 2004, and the typeface proved to be quite…
John Bielenberg is an accomplished and passionate 21st-century designer who is best known for his work in the early 2000s that aimed to create a better world. He is also well known for encouraging revolutionary design thinking processes to inspire projects of positive change in areas that need it. …
This art is made by the artists above and delivers as message about world hunger. The main thing about this art is that it’s minimalistic. As it includes that 40,000 children die of hunger every day. A very direct quote that is included but very direct and important. The images used is almost like its…
Rand is a typeface belonging to a trio of fonts, with the other two being Plain (2014) and Apax(2016). Created by type designer Francois Rappo, this trio of fonts was devoted to his work in the grotesque genre, as he continued to research the minimalism of modernism through Plain and the visual language of constructivism…
Joseph Kaspar Sattler created the typeface Nibelunge-schrift in 1897 for the Reichsdruckerei Berlin. This typeface was created for the 1900 book project Die Nibelungen. The Nibelungen-Schrift typeface is considered a type of Art Nouveau script typeface. The creation of this typeface was a big milestone in Joseph Sattler’s design career. The typeface is a very…
Bobby C. Martin Jr. has influenced many corporations through his having been part of so many different groups. Martin through his own company however has continued this influence. One example of this is the company’s redesign of the brand name of Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall, while having existed for a long time, wanted a new…
So, the project here is the title sequence for the show BLOODS, on Sky TV (a British network). This project was started by Hudson-Powell along with their other creators at Pentagram in early 2021. The nature of this project was to use brand identity, motion graphics other cool design details in order to make a…
My designer name is Lourdes Zolezzi. She was born in Mexico, and 1972, and went to college to pursue her career in art and graphic design. She went to a university in the Metropolitan Autonomous, and earned her Graphic Communication Design Degree. She had also earned a masters degree of visual art at San Carlos…
Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the very first people to begin experimenting with color printing. He even won the gold Special Medal of Award of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1908 for his work in four-color-process printing (Encyclopedia, 2022). The four-color printing process was used in order to create accurate colors…
Linda van Deursen is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam and has practice in book design and worked with multiple cultural institutions doing brand identity projects. She graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy with Armand Mevis in 1986 and the two would go on to form Mevis and van Deursen Studio the following year. Linda van…
Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the first people to use the linotype machine to publish books in 1891 (Britannica, 2022). The Linotype machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884 (Centre, 2022). This machine is a typesetting machine in that characters are placed in a finished line in order to print faster than…
Theodore Low De Vinne was born on December 25th, 1828 in Stamford Connecticut to his father Daniel, an abolitionist, Methodist circuit rider, and author, and mother Joanna Augusta Low De Vinne. De Vinne was the second oldest of six sons and attended public schools in Catskill, amenia, and white plains, New York (Koenig, 2022). He…
Bobby C. Martin Jr. is known today as one of Founding Partners for the design company Champions Design. He founded Champions Design, which used to be known as OCD or the Original Champions of Design, alongside Jennifer Kinon. Martin attended both Virginia Commonwealth University from 1994 through 1999 and NYC School of Visual Arts from…
Process Type Foundry is a small family business of typeface makers, established in 2002 in Minneapolis, Minnesota consisting of a partnership of married typeface designers Eric Olson and Nicole Dotin. With these two talented designers working together, the company has been responsible for many popular fonts in recent history such as the fonts Klavika, Colfax, …