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…
*Image found on: https://alchetron.com/Herbert-Horne Herbert Horne, born in London in 1864, was raised by an architect, Horace, and his mother, Hannah. While coming of age, Horne looked up to his father and chose to follow in his artistic footsteps; he began a partnership at a young age with an esteemed architect, Mackmurdo, who set out…
Another more personal project that Paul Sahre has worked on is his book titled Two Dimensional Man: A Graphic Memoir. The book was published in 2017 and Sahre worked on the cover for the book and the actual contents of the book. The cover of the book has a unique design as it doesn’t follow…
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.…
Irma Boom is a Dutch graphic designer and illustrator, who specialty is bookmaking. She was born in Lochem, Gelderland, the Netherlands on December 15, 1960. Having been known as ‘The Queen of books’, she has created over 300 books and has a reputation for defying the norms for traditional book design. At the AKI Academy…
In 2013, Irma Boom was commissioned by the French luxury fashion house, Chanel, to create a book for their Chanel No. 5 perfume. In all of its 300-page glory, the book contains no ink, and instead, the text and images are embossed onto soft paper telling a story about Gabrielle Chanel. Research-wise, Boom immersed herself…
Cover of Swiss typographic magazine “Typographische Monatsblätter” Emil Ruder fervently believed that typography should prioritize communication through the written word above any other principle of design. Although graphic design is largely based on aesthetic elements, the motivation behind the aesthetic choices comes down to one purpose: to share and spread ideas. For this book cover…
Typographie: A Manual of Design This seminal work of Ruder’s was a book published first in 1967 that encompassed his career in design over the course of 25 years. The publication was translated into many different languages including German, English, and French, and largely contributed to the spread of the Swiss Style of design across…
Among Irma Boom’s collection of work, she created SHV Think Book 1996-1896 early in her career and published it in 1996. Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, SHV’s CEO, gave Boom the opportunity to create a book that commemorated the centennial of the private and multinational Dutch trading company SHV. It is a 2,163-page book with only…
The 1930’s marks a major shift in artistic style and design within China as well as the introduction of the “Shanghai style” or “Chinese deco.” Qian Juntao was known to be the most skilled and inventive designer at the time as he was able to create works such as his piece Modern Woman that reflected design…
Jeffery Keedy aside from being a well known type designer and graphic designer is also an influential essayist for the Emigre Magazine. Keedy worked with Emigre magazine for quite a few years contributing essay ideas. Keedy wrote about all kinds of design related topics, but one in particular is his take on Postmodernism and how…
My last wild design post is going to be on my Anatomy and Physiology For Speech, Language, and Hearing textbook. This class is an anatomy class but instead of learning about how the whole body is set up and how it functions, we only learn about how speech is produced and how people are able…
Adrian Shaughnessy’s first novel, created in 2005, about the intricacies of business in graphic design showcase his experience as a freelance designer and a studio owner. This amazingly designed book showcases tips on how to find work, how to price it, and what to do when the client walks away without paying. One of Shaughnessy’s…
It is impossible to talk about Chip Kidd without mentioning his iconic book cover for Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton in the 1990s. The book cover is rather simple, featuring a black two-dimensional dinosaur on a cream-colored background. The figure takes up the right of the cover, off-centered. The typeface is a bold, san-serif. The…
Published in October of 2018 by Knopf, Killing Comendatore by Haruki Marukami is a book described as a “rambling voyage of self-discovery” by Xan Brooks for the Guardian. (Brooks, 2018). The design of the book jacket was designed by Chip Kidd. It is noted on Chip Kidd’s portfolio website that he was the Lead Designer…