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…
I came across this deodorant while shopping at Wegmans. In an isle filled with deodorant, these ones immediately caught my eye, but for all the wrong reasons. I find this packaging design to be uninspired, cliché, and unnecessarily gendered. Before I list all of the reasons why I do not like this design, I’ll first…
The album cover for “Pod” by The Breeders, designed by Vaughn Oliver in 1990. The album had a far-reaching influence in the rock and grunge scene, going as far as being listed as one of Kurt Cobain’s top three albums. Similarly, the record sleeve cover was iconic and recognizable. This design features an image of…
The record sleeve for The Pixies’ album, Doolittle, was created in 1989, designed and art directed by Vaughn Oliver. Oliver created this design in collaboration with photographer Simon Larbalester. The design features a negative image of a monkey with a halo. This was in reference to one of the songs in the album, “Monkey Gone…
Vaughn Oliver was a graphic designer whose vinyl sleeve designs became some of the most iconic images of the 80s and 90s punk and rock music scene. He was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, England, on September 12th, 1957 to Doreen, who was his mother, and Ernest Oliver, his father. He grew up in a…
For this assignment, I chose to talk about the design elements of the title sequence for the 2010 film ‘Yogi Bear.’ This movie is based on the 1960s cartoon ‘The Yogi Bear Show’ which followed two bears, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, and a park ranger named Ranger Smith. One thing that is seen…
This is a Reese’s Puffs cereal box that was created in collaboration with American artist KAWS. This is one of the most recent design collaborations that Reese’s has had as they’ve also collaborated with people like Travis Scott and Lil Yachty. The thing that caught my attention at first was the character laying in the…
As a huge Buffalo Bills fan, I keep up with a lot of their Instagram posts, and this one, reposted from Pro Football Focus, caught my attention with its eye-popping visuals. I’m a big fan of the Bills logo and colorways, and I think this graphic does a great job of utilizing the contrast of…
Since the late 1970s, an image of a rainbow or a rainbow color scheme has been near synonymous with the LGBTQ+ community. Due to the incorporation of the rainbow on the Pride Flag which is often used to represent the community, the rainbow color scheme is a trope often used in media to indicate LGTBQ+…
The western genre was one of the most popular genres in the 1900s. Movies, books, television shows, games, and other forms of media were capitalizing on the western lifestyle. The most recognizable image in the genre is the cowboy. The cowboy is the most important aspect of any frontier piece of media. When one thinks…
The trope I chose is the Titanic original movie poster, one of Hollywood’s most iconic films. The movie, released in 1997, tells a story of an epic fiction romance based on a true tragedy. The Titanic, or the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, was one of the worst marine time disasters in history (USA Today). The…
To me, the design of this bottle is both pleasing and a bit odd. Let’s begin with the bad, I find the contrast between a matte, black bottle with pastel green to be a bit disconcerting, the matte black bottle feels like it should be paired with a more simplistic, minimalist design that uses less…
On August 2, 1972, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City introduced a new map of the city’s subway system. Although initially met with skepticism and vitriol from local commuters, this map has grown to be loved by designers and users all around the world (Rawsthorn). This map of the New York City Subway…
The Louvre Museum in Paris asked Grapus to help brand their visual identity and create a new logo for them. The graphic logos would continue being developed by the Aterlier de Creation Graphique group, a smaller group within Grapus, until 1993 (Guillermou & Graphéine). The new logo for the Louvre Museum changed from “Musée du…
This poster was made in 1982 by Grapus, mainly illustrated by Pierre Bernard. This poster, Expo Grapus, was supposed “to represent the studio, for a retrospective in Paris” (Poyner). In 1982, Grapus was an internationally famous design group despite the fact that their work was more anarchist, rebellious, and punk then the popular modernism seen…