Neville Brody

Neville Brody is a British typography designer and art director; he has now been in the graphic design business for over two decades now.” In 1988 Brody published the first of his two monographs, which became the world's best-selling graphic design book. Combined sales now exceed 120,000”. http://www.archive.researchstudios.com/home/006-neville-brody/NEVILLE_home.php, As Brody was originally engaged in “record cover design” he created his name to be known mainly due to his progressive work as an Art Director for the Face magazine. Brody Published his first two monographs in 1998, which then turn out to be the world’s most popular graphic design book, he joined sales that now surpass 120,000.”He has designed several popular typefaces including Arcadia, Industria, Insignia, FF Blur, FF Pop, FF Gothic, and FF Harlem”. http://www.identifont.com/show?16X , he discovered his own studio in London that is based on his design training, this is where he performed designs and fashion projects for customers, such as “Nike, the Postal Service, and the German cable channel Premiere”. Brody has transformed most of his approach on computers since he began to start using them; he believed that you can do many things by hand instead of using a machine. Brody then changed his views by pushing himself to play around with one of his friend’s computer; he is internationally known to be a popular British graphic designer and typographer, that is famous for his successful work on magazines.

Neville Brody http://www.dezeen.com/2009/06/10/super-contemporary-interviews-neville-brody/

  'The Face magazine (1981–1986) and Arena magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Depeche Mode' http://lisathatcher.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/neville-brody-a-type-of-art/

Typeface Two / 1984 http://testpressing.org/2012/01/the-typefaces-of-neville-brody/

Jonothan Ive

Apple i phone 3g design http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2009/09/apple-wins-3g-iphone-design-iphone-battery-audio-alert-patents.html

Jonathan Ive was born in London, Febrauary 1967, and was brought up in Chingford, England. When he was a youngster, he developed a fascination with the way bits and pieces were put jointly, and spent most of his valuable time reconstructing things so he can learn the environment of their construction. At High school, he travelled north in order to join Newcastle Polytechnic, which is currently named Northumbria University today, this is where he learned art and industrial design. When he graduated successfully in 1989, with his first class honors, he then decided to move back to south England so he can work at the “Tangerine design consultancy agency in London” where he performed and developed his skills designing various objects. In 1992 the Apple Company offered a deal with Jonathan as a full-time position at Apple Computers and was also transferred to Cupertino, California. Not long after Jonathan was labelled “Senior Vice President of industrial Design”, as the company turned out to be very successful. “As Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. since 1997, Jonathan Ive is acknowledged as the chief creator behind many of the company's immensely successful products, including the iMac, iBook, PowerBook G4, iPhone, and perhaps his greatest innovation, the iPod”. http://uk.askmen.com/celebs/men/business/jonathan-ive/index.html Jonathan is a very great inspiration to young designers due the work he has produced and how successful has become, he also quoted a great speech “It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better". http://uk.askmen.com/celebs/men/business/jonathan-ive/index.html this small speech can make a big difference to young designers life’s to encourage them to work even harder to gain success just like he did, it is a very inspiring speech indeed.

Jonathan Ive http://pixar.wikia.com/Jonathan_Ive

Paul Rand

Paul Rand is an American graphic designer, his ideal name is “Peretz Rosenbaum”, and was born in 1914 in New York. Among 1929 and 1934, Paul learned in New York at the “Pratt Institute”, the “Parsons School of Design, and the Art Students League”, his  early works was inspired by “Cubism and Constructivism” along with the Bauhaus, using  main beliefs educated since the  “avant-garde schools of art to graphic design Paul Rand was the designer who developed so many of the celebrated logos of such big companies and famous institutions as Westinghouse, NeXT Computer, IBM, United Parcel Service (UPS), the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and Yale University”. http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/paul-rand-1914.shtml , Paul Rand’s career began as an illustrator job working part-time generating “junk”, however he developed more on his graphic skills than he had back when he was at school. He first started his first independent project and alighted limited small accounts in the middle 30’s. Paul Rand was hired as an independent designer to construct layouts for “Apparel Arts”, which is a fashion magazine for men. Even though the methods he had where unusual, they still depended on the understanding of the viewer, which was not once excessive. This allowed him to expand on the trust of his editors as they gave him a extended limit, which won him a full time job and deal to be an art-director for the “Esquire magazine”. His designs look very simple, but good quality andalso gives an extraordinary effect.

Portrait of paul rand  http://www.paul-rand.com/foundation/portraits/#.T5RHEPkjEz0

"IBM logo re-design in 1972, Paul Rand designed this poster for IBM in 1981." http://breezycreativedesign.com/2010/04/15/eye-bee-m-i-heart-ny-and-eye-heart-lc/

'Esquire magazine logo by Paul Rand, 1938' http://cutcutpaste.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/esquire-magazine-logo-by-paul-rand-1938/

David Carson

David Carson was born in Corpus, Texas on September 8, 1952. He went to “San Diego State University” along with “Oregon College of Commercial Art”. Later in 1983, David travelled to Switzerland where he was working towards a “Bachelor of Arts in Sociology”, where he joined a three-week workplace in graphic design as a section of his degree course. While he was undertaking this degree he was greatly inspired by a teacher of his course who is named “Hans-Rudolf”. “He became renowned for his inventive graphics in the 1990s. Having worked as a sociology teacher and professional surfer in the late 1970s, he art directed various music, skateboarding, and surfing magazines through the 1980s”www.enotes.com/topic/David_Carson_%28graphic_designer%29  He presented layouts that were alterations or mixtures of “vernacular” typefaces and shattered images, that were making them nearly impossible to read. By the Graphic Design USA magazine David was titled as one of the best five greatest inspiring designers recently. He then began to start designing in the 1980s without no strict teaching or schooling, ever since then he has heavily concentrated on typography and photography. He Later then started “Ray Gun Magazine”, which is a “lifestyle and music magazine”, then continued on to begin to create his own design form, “David Carson Design” in order to promote himself more to the public.” .“He continues to be active in the surfing community. Clients include Quicksilver, Suicide Girls, Samsung, Adidas, Nine Inch Nails, Pepsi, and Toyota”. http://www.arsgrafik.com/david-carson/. Moreover David Carson has a very unique special technique, when it comes to his typographical dealings, as they are always excellent, because of the way he mixes photography to generate a minimum, low-fi look. His hectic designing has been seen best through his works.

David Carson

"Ray Gun" http://versuswords.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/grunge-type.html

"Guardian Cover poster" http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/2009/03/26/guardian-gives-shape-to-obamas-words/

Darren Lago

Darren Lago was born in 1965, in warlsall, Staffordshire, and he works in the Saatchi and Arts school, Darren lago is obsessed with working with ordinary objects including chairs, kettles and shoes to deform our impression of the ordinary type of things in life. He seems to love transforming the balance and colour of natural objects, the merges them all jointly together with other materials to give a value to the normal. It is interesting the way that he works with modern-day but dull materials such as “newspaper and lettuce” which makes them impressive and exaggerated. Darren Lago made a speech  ( http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/artists/lago/lago.htm) saying “Our daily lives are influenced by what surrounds us - the objects in our houses, the chairs we sit in, the cars in our streets, the towers in our cities and the clothes we wear”. I find this speech very inspiring because it gives me even more the impression that Darren Lago uses a very unique way of creating his sculptures due to the materials he uses to create them which allow his sculptures to look and feel different, I believe all his sculptures are part of his greatest designs ever made. Darren Lago stuck everyday items together to develop exclusive and inventive sculptures.

http://www.fluxshop.se/blog/darren-lago/  'coke45' (450x337)

'electric chair 2003' http://vi.sualize.us/evasconcelos/?page=4

'outside-board' 2009, g plan sideboard converted into riva speedboat

© darren lago | created at www.mrsite.com@' http://www.darrenlago.com/

Banksy

Banksy was born in 1974 and he is a graffiti artist whose background comes from Bristol, UK, his artwork has emerged all over London and even additional sites across the world. Regardless of this Banksy still cautiously succeeds to protect his real name away from the mainstream media. Nevertheless, several newspapers still state that Banksy’s ideal name is “Robert or Robin Banks”. He has been believed by many people in that respect as talented, regardless of not appealing himself as an artist; he enjoys using his inventive street artistic method, and he regularly operates his mixture with a unique decorating skill, in order to sponsor the substitute pieces of politics from those that are sponsored through the mainstream media.” Banksy does, however, also do paid work for charities (e.g., Greenpeace) as well as demanding up to £25,000 for canvases. It has also been alleged [citation needed] and denied [citation needed] that Banksy has done work with corporations such as Puma.” http://www.briansewell.com/artist/b-artist/banksy/banksy-biography.html , This  has approved him to be directed being blamed of being a “sell out” and also single-minded by other artists and protesters. “Banksy designed the cover for Blur’s ‘Think Tank’.  He has also attracted great media attention through various stunts aimed at the establishment.” http://www.artrepublic.com/biographies/8-banksy.html , these has incorporated displaying Banksy’s art work in “London's Tate Modern and the New York Museum of Modern Art.”

'Banksy Vs Bristol Museum' http://www.pastymuncher.co.uk/banksy/

'Banksy Think Tank Poster Print Urban GraffitiSize:36" x 24" (90 x 60 cm Approx)' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Banksy-Think-Poster-Print-GraffitiSize/dp/B003LFTEQ2

Martha rosler

Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York. She works handling video, photo-text, connection, and accomplishment, and notes criticism. She has lectured expansively nationally and internationally. In the public her work circles varieties from everyday life usually with a judgement to women's understanding and the media to architecture and the assembled environment. She has achieved to issue numerous books of photographs, texts, and observation on a public area, varying commencing to airports and roads to housing and homelessness. She has work that has been seen in the "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel, Germany, a number of Whitney biennials, the Association which is involved in “Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia  Center for the Arts in New York; and many other international venues". www.matharolser.com  Martharolser Rosler has got ten published books that she has constructed numerously such as "Word Works" and photo/text periodicals now discovering cuisine in a mock dialogue among “Julia Child and Craig Claiborne”, who are revising pictures of women in Russia or discovering replies to cruelty, disaster, and war. She is an incredible artist who works mainly with images and texts. A maximum of her work worries social matters, that are expressed at sites as several as “the kitchen, the television set, the streets and the transport systems”.

Martha rolser

'hot meat'  http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/images/photos/body/hot_meat.jpg

Martha Rosler, Bicillin or Medical Treatment II, 1966-72,http://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/seductive-subversion-women-of-pop-at-uarts/

Sonya Boyce

Sonya Boyce is an English painter, draughtswoman and also multi-media artist, who studied art at “East Ham College and Stourbridge College of Art until 1983”. Her works as she begun were huge chalk-and-pastel drawing, which displays her interest in portraying friends, family and childhood practises. Frequently she suppresses pictures of wallpaper patterns and bright colours linked with the Caribbean and skilled through her own specific background. As she goes on to her later works she uses such distinct media, such as digital photographs, laser photographs and pastel to rebuild and construct complex images showing on-going black life “e. g. From Someone Else's Fear Fantasy a Case of Mistaken Identity, this Is No Bed of Roses” to Transformation, “mixed media on photographic paper, 1372×914 mm, 1987; artist's col” http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sonia-boyce-794/text-artist-biography .She transferred her prominence in these, from what could have be noticed as a culturally separationist method, that is true to a detailed traditional knowledge to concentrate other than of the outgoing skills and the dominance of the work itself. However her themes, sustained to be the gained involvements of a black woman surviving in a white civilization, and” how religion, politics and sexual politics made up that experience”. Making her practices noticeable was her only core fear in what can be observed as a procedure of social realism.

potrait of Sonia boyce

'big womans talk' by 400 × 386 by sonia boyce 1984 http://blackstudioart.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/influences.html

 

Sonia Boyce, 'She Aint Holding Them Up, She's Holding On (Some English Rose)', 1986, conte pastel and crayon on paper

 

 

 "A painting of a black woman in a bright print dress. Above her up-held hands are three children, dressed in white. A man in a green shirt is pictured behind the children. The perspective of the image gives the appearance that the woman is holding up the family pictured behind her." http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/?unique_name=articleimageviewer&page_id=1393