April Germain

Her work evolved from her graduate education at Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland. As a student of Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart in the early 1970s, Greiman was not only influenced by the International Style, but also by Weingart’s introduction to the style later to become known as New Wave, an aesthetic less reliant on the Modernist heritage. Greiman is credited, along with early collaborator Jamie Odgers as establishing the New Wave design style to the US during the late 70s and early 80s.Prior to the mid-80s, designers shunned computers, viewing them as challenges to the crispness of the International style. However, Greiman did not feel that this should be a limitation, and embracing the physicality of digital work in terms of pixelation, "errors" in digitization, etc.In 1986, she used Macintosh computers to create a noted issue of Design Quarterly, edited by Mildred Friedman and published by the Walker Art Center, entitled Does it make sense?Among many other accolades, Greiman is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.

Johnathan Barnbrook

Since 1990, London-based Barnbrook Design has been producing innovative work that combines a mixture of typographic structure, politics and irony. The studio, which chooses to remain small, and works on projects without worrying about "bringing in the money," has created such fonts as Mason and Exocet for Emigre, plus others released through Barnbrook's own font foundry, Virus.
Barnbrook has collaborated with contemporary artists, including the much-acclaimed Damien Hirst on the monograph I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere with everyone, one to one always, forever now. Currently the studio is preoccupied with work that questions the critical role of graphic design in society, including work with Adbusters and specially commissioned pieces of graphic authorship.

Yugo Nakamura

Regarded as one of the world's most innovative web designers, Yugo Nakamura is renowned for the wit and complexity of the interactive animations. An important influence of his was John Maeda. Born in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan in 1970, he originally studied civil engineering and landscape architecture at Tokyo University. After graduation, Nakamura spent four years working on bridge building projects.

His website http://www.yugop.com/ is so interactive there is a section where there is lines of colour and you move the cursor over them they move with the cursor and in a different section there is geometric shapes that you can play around with.

I really like this image, I love how the words are creating the leaves.

These images manipulations of the Mona Lisa gave me a few laughs.

Susan Kare

Susan Kare, born 1954 in Ithaca, New York, is the original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh. She joined Apple Computer in 1983.

Kare is the designer of many typefaces, icons, and original marketing material for the Macintosh OS.

Descendants of her groundbreaking work can still be seen in many computer graphics tools and accessories, especially icons such as the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket.

Her most recognizable works from her time with Apple are the Chicago typeface , the Geneva typeface, the Happy Mac (the smiling computer that welcomed Mac users on starting their machines, until Mac OS X 10.2 replaced it with a grey Apple logo), and the symbol on the Command key on Apple keyboards also known as the Apple key.

Since 1988, she has been a successful independent graphic designer working with clients such as Microsoft and IBM. Her projects for Microsoft included the card deck for Windows 3.0's solitaire game, as well as numerous icons and design elements for Windows 3.0. Many of her icons, such as those for Notepad and various Control Panel applications, remained essentially unchanged by Microsoft until Windows XP.

Danny Brown

Multimedia Designer
Born in Liverpool in 1977, Brown grew up among computers, both by playing video games and watching his father at work as a pioneer of computer graphics. After his father left Liverpool, a family friend the late Roy Stringer, who worked in the Learning Methods Unit at the city's John Moores University, allowed Brown to use the computers there.

Hi-Res!

Multimedia design studio Hi-Res! was founded in 1999 by dynamic duo Florian Schmitt and Alexandra Jugovic who met at art college in 1993.

Alexandra's background is in fine art and graphic design, whilst Florian's is film and music. They worked for various clients in the design, music and post-production industry where they refined their skills and artistic approach. And due to their fascination with different fields such as film, music and traditional art, they thought they could combine these interests into creative commercial and personal projects. As a result, that is what they did: The year is 1999, Florian and Alexandra make the crucial decision to move from Germany to London to launch their company Hi-ReS!, and they begin working on a personal site called Soulbath.com, although they state that at the time they didn't know that much about the web at that time, but realized Flash would be a great platform for them to pool their varied interests and skills.The project is associated with an exhibition of art-banners entitled “clickhere!”, a sardonic twist, delivering adverts but no products. Beyond their expectations, the site received immediate widespread among the media, culminating in a prominent feature in The New York Times. From this point on, they were approached for work with Mitsubishi, Lexus and NTT Data. They were invited by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky to create a site for his film “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), and they went on to completing other movie sites like “Donnie Darko” (2001), The Lexux’s “Minority Report” Experience (2002), and “The Punisher” (2004). In addition, Hi-Res! created TheThirdPlace.com for Sony’s PlayStation 2, and the amazing site for Massive Attack’s album “100th Window.”The sites of hi-res! are truly multisensory explorations, immersing you somewhere between experimental web art and a fantastic dream. The rich worlds they create encourage both personal interaction and unique interpretation. In a an interview for Shift they can be quoted "The common denominator in our process is that we try to aproach a project from a conceptual and not necessarily an aesthetic angle to begin with; we need to be sure of what we wnat to say before we think of how we want to say it". This has resulted in stunning and original sites over the last seven years that have more than stood the test of time.

Spike Jonze

Jonze was born 22nd of October 1969, in Rockville, Maryland, USA to the name Adam Spiegel.

Spike Jonze made up one-third, along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman, of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine. Jonze also shot skate-videos. Most notable among these is Blind's 1991 magnum opus "Video Days". and is also co-owner of the Girl skateboard company.

His videos for for the Beastie Boys Starsky and Hutch inspired "Sabotage", Bjorks Busby Berkeley style "It's Oh So Quiet", Weezer's amazing 'Happy Days' styled "Buddy Holly", Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" featuring Jonze as Richard Koufey with the fictional Torraine Community Dance Group all won numerous awards and are some of the most succesful music videos ever made.

Spike Jonzes' first feature film "Being John Malkovich", a surreal comedy which sees John Cusacks's character Craig Schwartz discovering a passage into the mind of John Malkovich.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody was born in Southgate,London on April 23, 1957. At school, Brody studied A-Level Art, very much from a fine art viewpoint. In 1975 Brody went to on to be a Fine Art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art, once renowned for its late sixties agitation, now safely amalgamated into Middlesex University.

In autumn 1976, Brody started a three-year B.A. course in graphics at the London College of Printing. His tutors often condemned his work as "Uncommercial", often putting a heavy emphasis on safe and tested economic strategies, as opposed to experimentation. By 1977 punk rock was beginning to have a major effect upon London life and, while this had a great impact upon Brody's work and motivation, was not well received by his tutors. At one point he was almost thrown out of the college for putting the Queen's head sideways on a postage stamp design. He did, however, get the chance to design posters for student converts at the lecp, most notably for Pere Ubu, supported by The Human League. In spite of the postage stamp episode, Brody was not only motivated by the energies of punk. His first-year thesis had been based around a comparison between Dadaism and Pop Art. Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Communication and is known for his work on The Face magazine (1981–1986) and Arena magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Nine Inch Nails. He was one of the founding members of FontFont (now FontShop) in London and designed a number of notable typefaces for them. He was also partly responsible for instigating the FUSE project an influential fusion between a magazine, graphics design and typeface design. Each pack includes a publication with articles relating to typography and surrounding subjects, four brand new fonts that are unique and revolutionary in some shape or form and four posters designed by the type designer usually using little more than their included font.He now continues to work as a graphic designer with his own design practise called Research Studios which in addition to London has studios in Paris and Berlin. The studios work on a wide range of projects including packaging for Kenzo Perfumes, to creating branding for companies such as Macromedia and HomeChoice.

Why Not Assossiates

Why not associates is a british graphic design company with global reach. for nearly two decades, why not associates has been creating innovative work for clients large and small. The team works in many different media on many types of projects, including corporate identity, digital design, motion graphics and television commercial direction, editorial design, environmental design, publishing, and public art

An example of corporate identity for london based post production facility house blue and a overview of the logo on a range of stationary etc.

This is a screenshot of the title sequence and promos for bbc sports personality of the year awards.

A coporate identity,website and signage for london based post production facility, ENVY

A pack produced for the launch of the moto krzr mobile phone. the pack includes promotional cards and a dvd.

Vaughan Oliver

Vaughan Oliver is a graphic designer based in Wandsworth, South West London.
Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23. Both studios maintained a close relationship with record label 4AD between 1982 and 1998 and were to give distinct visual identities for the 4AD releases by many bands, including: Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Pale Saints, Pixies, Throwing Muses. 23 Envelope consisted of Vaughan Oliver (graphic design and typography) and Nigel Grierson (photography). Together, they created the artwork for almost all 4AD releases until 1987.

The Chase

The Chase was established in Manchester in 1980 by co founders Ben Casey and Lionel Hatch.
Ben and Lionel set up The Chase to offer a credible, regional alternative to London’s best design consultancies. Since then, The Chase has opened offices in London and Preston and has earned an outstanding reputation for creative excellence.
In 2004, The Chase was ranked 2nd most creative agency in the UK and is now one of an elite band of companies to have had work accepted by D&AD in each of its 18 years of existence.

I LOVE some of their logo work. This logo is for leaf street an environmentally friendly housing association and i don't think it could be made any better, its clever. It shows a 'street' of house and their shadows in green thus creating a 'leaf'. >>

This is a logo for 3CV i like how they have incorporated the CV to create a 3. <<

This is a logo for Design Yorkshire, I like how the Y's of Yorkshire have been rotated and put together to create a star shape. >>

This is the logo for the Woodland Trust i like its simplicity. also the have used colours of nature. i.e the brown and green of a tree. <<

I also like so like some of their packaging designs for Original Source. I really like the typographical approach to it. i like how its not all the same pt size and the its not all facing the same way but is still legible and neatly packed into the rectangular shape.

Designers Republic

The Designers Republic is a group of graphic designers, founded on July 14, 1986 by Ian Anderson, and based in Sheffield. It is known for its anti-establishment aesthetics.

They have designed games sleeves for a PlayStation games wipeout and GTA. They have also designed Cd's sleeves for supergrass, Jarvis Cocker and the ministry of sound aswell as packaging for powergen and channel branding for Nickelodeon and MTV QOOB.

I like the work of these designers it is colourful and modern. Their designs stick in my mind.

see some off the work here http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

Some of my favourite designs are the kids TV channel nickelodeon logo, a series of three pringles adverts which can be found on the website and most notably the coke music campaign for the coca-cola company.

David Hughes

David Hughes is an artist whose work combines illustration, graphic design, photography and animation.
His darkly humorous, satirical drawings, often dealing with issues of war, politics and social crisis, have appeared in Punch, The Observer and The New Yorker, and have been exhibited internationally.

He has also received great acclaim for his children’s picture books and for his D&AD award-winning illustrated version of Shakespeare’s Othello.
I really like his style of illustration. they seemed rough and rushed but still effective this one of Queen is good straight away you can tell who it is.

Micheal Gondry

Michel Gondry, born 1963, is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.
According to the 2004 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, Michel Gondry's Levi's 501 Jeans "Drugstore" spot holds the record for "Most awards won by a TV commercial".

I can't actually believe that I hadn't heard of Michel Gondry before now, but having researched I realize i have seen loads of his music videos such as Around The World by Daft Punk and Fell in Love with a Girl by The White Stripes.

Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper is a designer of motion picture title sequences. His work includes the opening credit sequences of Se7en (1995), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Flubber (1997), The Mummy (1999), Spider-Man (2002), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Godzilla Final Wars (2004); and the video games Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004).

Lauren Child

Lauren Child is an English author and illustrator. She is best known for writing the Charlie and Lola books.

I like this style of illustration, i like how the eyes overlap on Charlies hair and how it look like she uses collage to create the areas of colour shows more texture than just colouring it in.

J Otto Seilbold

J. Otto Seibold is an illustrator of children's books he is best known for illustrating picture books. His most notable books were created with the author Vivian Walsh. Seibold and Walsh live in San Francisco.

Books illustrated by J.Otto

Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride (1993),
Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe (1994),
Monkey Business (1995),
Free Lunch (1996),
Going to the Getty (1997),
Olive, the Other Reindeer (1997),
Penguin Dreams (1999),
The Pig in the Spigot (2000),
Gluey: A Snail Tale (2002),
Alice in (pop-up) Wonderland (2003),
Olive, My Love (2004),

David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge" era.

Meta Design

MetaDesign has been one of Europe's most respected design agencies for over ten years. Its portfolio of services ranges from strategic brand management to the design and implementation of complex corporate identities and images. Initially set up in Berlin 1992 by Uli Mayer-Johanssen and Erik Speikermann, Metadesign now has offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zurich, employs over 100, and handles global branding for Adobe, Volkswagen, Audi and Lufthansa.

Tomato

Tomato is an art design collective co-founded at the turn of the 1990s by nine people based in London, two of whom are Rick Smith and Karl Hyde of the electronic music group Underworld.

Tomato's work includes television and print advertising, corporate identity, art installations, clothing, and of course, design for Underworld's various channels of output. In its existence, Tomato has built an international reputation for working across different media, creating designs for all manner of clients such as Reebok, Adidas and Levi's; and identity for museums and cultural centers.

Tomato regards itself as an art and design collective rather than as a design and communication agency.

The collective has offices in New York and Tokyo as well as a film production company, Tomato Films.

Ronarld Searle

Ronald Searle is an English cartoonist. He is the creator of, among other things, St Trinian's School and co-author with Geoffrey Willans of the Molesworth tetralogy.

Kathleen Hale

Kathleen Hale was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat. Kathleen Hale died at the age of 101.

Pentagram

Pentagram have a huge history in the design world, and are still a huge design company today covering most disciplines. Founded by Alan Fletcher and born out of Fletcher, Forbes and Gill, who were the first big British design firm in the 1960's. Pentagram went onto design famous identities for Shell, Reuters, United Airlines, Star Alliance and Citibank. Pentagram's architectural design's are seen at the Harley Davies Museum and Chester Racecourse, books designs which are too numerous to sum up here, editorial design for the Guardian (1988), The New York Times Magazine, Interactive work for United Airlines, The new York Jets and the M.I.T., Interior designs for Virgin Atlantic's Upper Class cabins and the Natural History Musem. Pentagrams trade marks can be seen on Penguin Books, Phaidon Press, Getty Images and Wagamama, and their packaging is seen at Tesco (finest range), Swatch, Boots Shapers Range, and Tiffany's store in NYC. Pentragam have product designed Dell Computers, Nike Watches and Poloroid Cameras and thie signage systems can be seem in Lower Manhatten, Toronto International Airport, San Francisco Zoo, The National Maritime Museum and the New York Botanical Garden.

Fletcher spent the next two decades at Pentagram, a period over which the firm grew from five to eleven partners and opened offices in New York and San Francisco. In the face of this expansion, he maintained the most economic of teams, usually employing between two and five people. This allowed him to combine large-scale identity projects, such as that for the Commercial Bank of Kuwait, with small-scale commissions that offered greater scope for his graphic wit and idiosyncrasy. Fletcher’s portfolio from these years – published in the monograph Beware Wet Paint – is a combination of carefully crafted logos and spontaneous graphic epiphanies. Nothing is heavy handed, and the sketches and doodles demonstrate his ingenuity and charm.
Much of Fletcher’s work from the Pentagram period survives. His logotype for London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, for example, has proved itself fit for its purpose and has thus transcended its era. Crafted from the classic typeface Bodoni, Fletcher’s design creates a single unit from the museum’s nickname – the V&A – by allowing the serif of the ampersand to stand in for the bridge of the A. Although Fletcher would not have used a traditional typeface such as Bodoni in this fashion in the early 1960s, the strength and singularity of the idea behind this design is consistent with his career-long approach. Similarly his logotype for the Institute of Directors, in which the initials of the title are scaled according their relative importance – a medium-sized ‘I’, small ‘O’ and big ‘D’ – appears more conservative than his earlier designs at first glance. Yet, in terms of rigour and restraint, it is utterly in keeping.

His work is so inspiring and so different to what I have seen before; I loved his collage work and his typography logo design work

Fletcher sadly died in September 2006.

eBoy

eBoy is a pixel art group founded in 1998 by Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital, Kai Vermehr. Based in Berlin, eBoy's founders collaborate with Peter Stemmler in New York to produce graphic design work for companies.
Their work makes intense use of popular culture and commercial icons, and their style is presented in three-dimensional isometric illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls. Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide,as well as a long list of commercial clients.
eBoy has worked with named brands and companies such as Coca-Cola,MTV, VH1, Adidas, and Honda. They have also worked in creating the album cover for Groove Armada's 2007 studio album Soundboy Rock.

My little brother goes on a website called habbohotel.com and the graphics is very similar to this but i have not been able to find out if infact they have created it.

I really like this it reminds me of some sort of wheres wally puzzle wheres theres lots of different things going on in one image and everytime you look at it you notice something different each time.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was born in New York on May 8th 1920 and studied Graphic Art at Brooklyn College, New York before moving to Los Angeles in 1946.

I like the work of Saul Bass. It reminds me a bit of the collages by Picasso. I like the rough minimalistic cut out feel of his film poster for 'The Man With The Golden Arm'. Preminger called on Bass to work on 'The Man With The Golden Arm', for which Bass created this famous jagged arm design, which is meant to suggest a hardened drug addiction which was the main story of the film.

He also has an impessive website using the same style as this poster at http://www.saulbass.tv/

Saul Bass' body of work distinguishes him as one of the most versatile and innovative graphic designers of the 20th Century. He has talent for creating definitive visual references in the form of film poster campaigns and title sequences.

I also like this poster, the use of a spirograph to evoke a dizy sensation.

Bass directed the short dream sequence in 'Vertigo' as well as working on the poster campaign for the film. This film marked his most complete collaboration with Hitchcock.

In the 1960s, Bass' genius extended to building corporate identities for some of the biggest companies in the USA. He designed the logos for AT&T, Quaker Oats, and Warner Communications, and successfully conveyed the ethos of each of these corporations to the American public.

Peter Saville

Peter Saville is a British graphic designer. Born in Manchester in 1955,

Since his first work for Factory Records in the late 1970s, Peter Savillehas been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music.

He has created album artwork for acts such as Joy Division, New Order and, later, Suede and Pulp and by the mid-1980s, Saville’s reputation as a designer of music graphics was assured and he was sought-after by mainstream acts such as Wham! and Peter Gabriel.

This is the album cover designed by saville the We Love Life album for Pulp, 2002.

im still not sure if i like this work, i dont dislike it but im not mad on it either.