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…
Another one of Depero’s projects that really stood out to me was another theatrical artwork and it is called Mimismagia. This was a series of costume designs that were created in 1916 for a mimic-acrobatic ballet. “The costumes for Mimismagia were characterized by strange geometrical shapes that seemed to protrude from the body, turning the…
One of Depero’s projects that first stood out to me was I balli plastici. This is a set design that was created in 1921. In 1917, Depero began to conceive of a Futurist ballet in which machine-like puppets would replace human actors and dancers. He felt that this would emphasize the Futurist ideals of technology…
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…
Herbert Matter was a world-renowned American focused graphic designer and photographer coming from a Swiss background. Matter was born on April 25th, 1907 in Engelberg, Switzerland. Most people remember him for his innovative use of photomontage in commercial art. His differential and experimental work helped to set trends for twentieth century graphic design. He studied…
Noah Weaver Who’s who’s in Graphic Design Part 2 (projects) Yamaguchi Piece 2 4/3/2020 (Hello Kitty, Gungho Collab, 2014) In 2014 Hello Kitty and Friends (Sanrio) and Puzzles and Dragons (Gungho) had a multiplatform collaboration (Gungho Admin). Puzzles and Dragons is a mobile based puzzle solving game where players clear candy-crush-esque boards to…
Noah Weaver Who’s who’s in Graphic Design Part 2 (projects) Yamaguchi Piece 1 4/2/2020 (Hello Kitty, The day a grand piano came to her house – Yuko Yamaguchi, 1978) In this piece we see the Kitty family. Papa Kitty works for a trading firm and is proud to have been able to afford to…
Noah Weaver Bibliography – Yuko Yamaguchi Yuko Yamaguchi was born in Kōchi, Japan on October 24th, 1955. She began seriously drawing in the later part of her high school years, where she won a local art competition with a poster she made containing a cute pink character. She later studied Industrial Design at Joshibi…
Georg Olden was a pioneer for African Americans in the field of graphic design. Olden went from being deserted by his father, to being held back in high school, to dropping out of high school, but eventually ending up being head of on-air promotions at CBS television. His story is an interesting one and could…
Jean Carlu is one of the more famous art deco poster designers from France during the 1900s. This piece in particular, the Monsavon, was just an advertisement for a soap brand in France. Jean Carlu is one of the four main designers during the Art Deco era in France. In all honesty, in most of…
There were many designers that have influenced design itself over the course of humanity. Jean Carly was one of those said designers who influenced the graphic poster seen as well as how they were used during his long life. Carlu was born in the 1900s in Bonnières-Sur-Seine, France, and designing ran in his blood. From…
An artist, both graphic and landscape designer, and writer, Barbara Solomon is a multi-faceted creative based in San Francisco, well known for her tenure as “a pioneer in the male-dominated midcentury design world, also an innovator, essentially inventing the field of supergraphics” (Walker). Solomon is best known for her “California Cool” aesthetic, achieved by splitting…
Biography Walter Dorwin Teague, the “Dean of Industrial Design,” was born in Decatur, Indiana in 1883. From a young age, Teague was well-known to be a jack-of-all-trades, and full of a creative, lively spirit. Thus, it was no surprise when he took off across the country in 1903 to go to New York, New York…