One of my favorite and most recent projects designed by Qingyu Wu is her 2021 Album Design titled “Neo Era Romance 新世纪人类浪漫主义” for Modern Sky. This piece was designed for the musician Fu Han’s first album release. The project was a collaboration between Qingyu Wu, Fu Han, Sun Yi, and Frederic Kevorkian. The album design…
In 2012, Mevis & Van Deursen rebranded the Stedelijk Museum’s visual identity. This involved various collateral pieces like stationery, posters, signage, and much more. The logo is made by formatting “Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam” into an “S” shape. This logotype feels subversive as it keeps a minimalist attitude in its sans serif font choice in Union but also…
The “Berlin Layout” was a poster Stankowski presented in 1968 for the said city in Germany. This piece was made to emphasize the unique visual identity of Berlin and is considered one of his legendary pieces. The styles that are emphasized in this piece include the international typography style, and some of the biggest influences,…
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 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…
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.…
American Type designer Robert Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in the area of Southern California. Although he is now a known designer, he surprisingly attended University of California Los Angeles on an athletic scholarship for gymnastics. He later discovered the love he had for design and typography, and worked to run…
Off The Grid – Sara De Bondt This project is Sara De Bondt’s latest work. Off the Grid is a contemporary piece that has the goal of educating others about the history of the graphic design scene in Belgium and origins of typography. De Bondt not only designed the cover but also scoured for…
SARA DE BONDT Sara De Bondt is a graphic designer, teacher, researcher, conference organizer and publisher from Leuven, Belgium. Her career began at the Sint-Lukas art college in Brussels during a fine art exhibition. She met an artist who didn’t believe graphic design was a fit for her but she decided to pursue this…
Ian Anderson and The Designers Republic origins are without a doubt in the music scene, with their earliest works creating club posters, event fliers and album covers for the bands they knew and frequently worked with. In the 90s, they became a key collaborator with the Sheffield imprint Warp Records designing various covers and even…
One of The Designers Republic most ambitious projects was work for the game series Wipeout. Wipeout was a series of futuristic racing games by Psygnosis studios for the original PlayStation. TDR was originally tasked with the packaging for the game, but eventually went on to design the in-game menus, in game artwork and the overall…
Faliurism Manifesto, another one of Can Yang’s works done during her time at Rhode Island School of Design, displays her own manifesto where she drew inspiration from composer and artist John Cage’s work about creating spontaneous, random decisions. For her own work, she used the idea of failure in “how sometimes things that are unintended…
Coisa Mais Linda – Film Before The Film ________________________________________ Coisa Mais Linda– the most beautiful thing– is a 1950’s based Brazilian drama that has a vibrant and upbeat title sequence that gives you a very nostalgic feeling. It utilizes many visual elements to highlight key aspects of the series (i.e. characters) and transitions to…
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…
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…