Polymode is the website/platform that was created by Silas Munro and Brian Johnson. It is a platform that allows their clients to create websites, advertisments, poetry, books, exhibitions, ect. “Polymode is a studio that leads the edge of comtemporary graphic design through poetic research, learning experiences, and making cool shit for clients in the cultural…
Calendrier Magique is an occult calendar created by Austin de Croze and illustrated by Manuel Orazi. The booklet calendar was printed in France in 1895 and only had 777 copies to commemorate magic for the coming year of 1896. It was meant to be a work of art rather than a real handbook for occult…
The problem today with commuting is safety. What do you do when you have to use your phone to navigate but are crossing busy intersections? IDEO participated in a three-company collaboration with Google and Levi’s. The production of this stylish jacket was meant to solve a navigator’s problems with common issues of daily travel. A…
IKEA is a company known for home living products. they wanted to create a prototype kitchen for the future. IDEO’s mission is to take the general human-centered experience and incorporate it into their designs to solve a problem. In this case, they were working for a person in 2025, and the relationship between food and…
The advertisement poster for La Maison Moderne was created by Manuel Orazi in 1902. La Maison Moderne was founded by Julius Meyer-Graefe in 1898. La Maison Modern was a store that sold the latest decorative objects and furnishings in the Art Nouveau style. As an Art Nouveau artist that focused on ornamental and decorative…
Emmanuel Joseph Raphael Orazi, also known as Manuel Orazi, was an Art Nouveau illustrator and poster artist. He was born in Rome in 1860 and died in Paris in 1934. Orazi was trained at the famed Italian printing house of Ricordi. By 1900, Orazi took inspiration from previous art movements including Vienna Secessionism, and Symbolism.…
David Kelley Last semester, IDEO design was mentioned in my Design Thinking class, they are a group of designers whose main goal is to be leaders of human-centered design. When the design is human-centered, this means the design solves a problem a large or small group of people have. The chair of IDEO currently…
The new idea for Sony Ericsson started with a simple core concept and a new way of colorful execution. Sony Ericsson’s famous green logo, known as “liquid identity”, emphasizes individualism and one’s feelings towards the products and accessories that allow them to be their true self. The idea is the new design should promote free…
Wolff Olins collaborated with AES, a fortune 500 global energy company, on their company transformation. AES has been transforming the energy sector with innovation and by investing in local communities. However, the transformation AES has been undergoing over the years was not properly reflected in their current branding and did not convey who they are…
John Bielenberg was associated with many community-benefiting design projects due to his influence and position over Project M. Project M’s goal was to place groups of young designers in situations where they had to collaboratively and revolutionarily develop a project to benefit the area they found themselves in. …
ELLEN LUPTON & J. ABBOTT MILLER J. Abbott Miller and wife Ellen Lupton often collaborate in their art and their designs. They are both graduates of the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. They founded the studio, Design/Writing/Research tougher and pioneered the approach of design as a form of authorship. This approach can be…
Silas Munro engages multi-modal practices in hopes to inspire people to be the “best versions of themselves in order to effect positive change on society as a whole.” Munro is a full time Assistant Professor at Otis College of Art and Design. He teaches Communication Arts, Liberal Art and Sciences, Creative Action, and MFA Graphic…
This project was a rebranding, or rather a literal change of image, for Oxford Ionics a quantum computing company. This project was taken on after Oxford Ionics approached Pentagram, and Hudson-Powell, to develop an identity for the company. This project was completed around October 2021. The prompt was to define the core values of the…
This image is represents an important day which is the international day of dance. Lourdes represents this by the cup having one with girl shoe and the other with none. Meaning or giving off a meaning that the dances can be elegant or romantic or just normal or more classic. With the art she directs…
Mevis and van Deursen were hired to create a new identity system for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2014. The identity system was created with the architecture of the building in mind as in their initial inquiries, they found the public connected the MCA to the structure itself. When examining the building closer,…