Kali Nikitas was born in 1964 and she is known for many jobs. Her jobs include an academic administrator, a graphic designer, and a curator. she received an MFA from CalArts in graphic design and a BFA in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kali is currently Chair of the Communication Arts…
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End begins its game with an opening sequence that has various design elements that are telling of the themes and ideas that will be present throughout. The sequence’s visuals, typography, and use of lighting all set the stage for what kind of game Uncharted 4 is. The entire title occurs within…
This book cover for “City Life” by Donald Barthelme caught my eye as I sifted through books at my local book shop. The immediate impression it gave me is that of a city that is alive and bustling with life, as the typeface used in the title resembles a 1960’s style of flashy and invigorating…
The United States Housing Authority asked Lester Beall to create a project. The association was also created by President Roosevelt in the 1930’s. The purpose of the United States Housing Authority was created to loan money to states for low cost construction. During this time Beall created the infamous poster titled Cross Out Slums. Beall…
These three posters were apart of a project that Lester Beall completed for the Rural Electrification Administration. This administration agency was founded in the year 1935 by President Roosevelt. The purpose of the agency was to generate electricity in rural areas that, at the time being, did not have the luxury of utilizing. The…
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…
ART AGAINST AIDS is one of Friedman’s later works, made in 1987. This work was made for a coalition of artists and galleries to have an exhibition to raids money to benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research. From what I can gather about Friedman and his personality, he most likely did this poster for…
Dan Friedman had his postgraduate education split between too very different graphic design schools, Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm and Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel.[1] Ulm was a high modernist institution while Basel was more intuitive and exuberant.[2] While teaching at Yale, Friedman used his knowledge of the two extremes of design to help formulate projects for his…
Wolfgang Weingart is known for his experimentation in typography, becoming a significant figure in its international development in the 1960s, 70s, and onwards. He is not only recognized for his skills as a graphic designer, but as an instructor. While working at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, he influenced his students to be more experimental…
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…
‘Join the ATS,’ a British wartime propaganda poster designed by graphic designer Abram Games, was such a hit that it eventually became widely known as ‘The Blonde Bombshell.’ Printed in 1941, the idea for ‘Join the ATS’ came into fruition after the British military launched a campaign to motivate more women to join the Auxiliary…
David Carson joined the graphic design scene relatively late in life. Though born on September 8, 1955, Carson didn’t make a wave in the design world until the 1990s. Carson went on to study sociology at San Diego State University. There, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and eventually took up a teaching…
In 1895, the Beggarstaffs were commissioned by Henry Irving to create a poster advertisement from A Chapter from Don Quixote, which was a one-act play Irving was starring in. Using their unique collage technique of pasting cut-out shapes of flat colors onto a larger piece of paper, the Beggarstaffs illustrated Don Quixote sitting dignified on…
Fortunato Depero was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor, and graphic designer. He was born on March 30, 1892 in Fondo, Italy. “He grew up in Rovereto and it was here when he first began exhibiting his works, while also serving as an apprentice to a marble worker in 1910. He schooled at Scuola Reale…
Karl Gerstner’s morphological typogram programme was published in 1968. It is one of the many books that he wrote about art and graphic design. The morphological typogram programme contains principles that Gerstner used in his world-renowned graphic design. These principles include systems and defined parameters that graphic designers could learn about and use in their…