The font Minion was first released in 1990. The family contains sixty-five different styles, including 4 weights (plus italics), in 2 widths and 4 optical sizes, as well as a standalone Black version. In designing this Serif Font family, Robert Slimbach took inspiration from fonts of the late Renaissance, as he wanted to create something…
Alan Peckolick – General Motors Logo
The General Motors logo was designed by Alan Peckolick in 1964 and is one of the most influential logos in larger businesses today. The underlined bold two letters G-M is a starkly simple design. Some of his designs were well known for having intricate flourishes and curls, and others were stark in their simplicity (Washington…
Anton Stankowski
Anton Stankowski Anton Stankowski was born in 1906 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is still to this day renowned for his many accomplishments and is universally known as one of the most influential names in late-modernist art as well as one of the central figures in the Constructive-Concrete style. His career first started when he was…
The Imprint
Edward Johnston published a journal in 1913. He did not work on this journal alone. He made and published the journal with three other typographic designers that went by the names F. Ernest Jackson, J. H. Mason, and Gerard Meynell. The title of the journal they made together is The Imprint (printing trade periodical). It…
Who’s Who in Graphic Design: Secession XIV, Beethoven
Secession XIV, Beethoven was created in 1902 as a poster for the 14th Vienna Secession Exhibition. The poster was made to promote the exhibition but also to honor Ludwig van Beethoven, as that was one of the main factors of that year’s exhibition. The promotion seemed to work because almost sixty-thousand people showed up to…
Koloman Moser
Koloman Moser was a famous Austrian artist whose works include < Ottokar Macha Folio: plate Exhibition Poster” by Kolo Moser,1915>. He had a great influence on painting in the 20th century Koloman Moser was born in 1868, he is the elder of three siblings and his father wanted to see him in business, so he briefly attended…
Geoff McFetridge – It Looks Like a Smile
This project is a little different than the other post about Geoff McFetridge’s work. This project focuses more in abstract illustration and interpretation of the viewer. Here in the featured image we see a book titled, “It Looks Like a Smile”. This book is mostly illustrations with few words to be seen on any of…
Crispy
Another one of Ayegi Archers’ notable works has to do with the non-profit organization that he co-founded known as DO or Design Objectives. With this organization, he was able to design a typeface for his client Krs Joseph that founded the software design company CRISPY. This was one of his bigger client projects that he…
Robert Slimbach Work (1): Adobe Garamond
One of Slimbach’s most popular fonts is Adobe Garamond. It can be seen in action in the very well known Google logo! This font was created as a contemporary revival of the Roman typefaces created by the sixteenth century engraver Claude Geramond & the italic glyphs of Robert Granjon. These styles of fonts are typically…
J. Abbott Miller
J. Abbot Miller was born in Indiana on June 28th, 1963, attending school to study Graphic Design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He began teaching the concepts and craft of graphic design shortly after graduating from The Cooper Union. By 1988 Miller was teaching the required survey course, History of…
Who’s Who in Graphic Design: Alfred Roller
Alfred Roller was born in Brno, Czech Republic in 1864 and is a renowned designer who lived during the Art Nouveau period as well as the Secessionist period. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was also a member of and co-founded the Vienna Secession. The Vienna Secession was an art movement…
Digitisation of the Ndyuka Script
Agyei Archers’ first project that I choose to focus on is his variable font project for Google which is going to focus on a creole language that is based in Suriname. He did in-depth research for this project about linguistics and the language in general and was able to design and code a typeface system…
Gatorade & TBWA/Chiat/Day
TBWA/Chiat/Day began an advertising campaign to transform the way people viewed Gatorade and make it an even more popular sports drink brand. Part of this campaign started with changing the way Gatorade saw itself so that it could transform into a modern sports culture brand and expand its products. TBWA/Chiat/Day wanted to change Gatorade’s perspective…
Danse Macabre – Xanti Schawinksy
This image is a photograph taken from one of Schawinsky’s performance art pieces as a part of his experimental multimedia project Spectrodrama from 1936 to 1938, this particular one is called Danse Macabre. Surrealism, which became popular in the 1920s when Schawinsky was in Germany studying at Bauhaus, is the art genre most heavily drawn…
Alan Peckolick – Beards Book Cover
This piece is the cover of Reginald Reynolds’ book entitled Beards designed by Alan Peckolick. Published in 1976, this book is a philosophic curation of beards, their discourse, and the art of barbering. Enough about chin hair — let’s talk about design. This piece was designed and lettered by Alan Peckolick under Herb Lubalin’s leadership.…