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list of images & concepts for the final exam
list of images for the final exam.
list of concepts for the final exam.
if you have any questions, post them here.
list of concepts for the final exam.
if you have any questions, post them here.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Adbusters anti or pro-design?
Adbusters Media Foundation (called Adbusters or the Media Foundation) is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Canada. They describe themselves as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age." The foundation publishes Adbusters, a 120,000-circulation, reader-supported activist magazine, devoted to numerous political and social causes, many of which are anti-consumerist in nature.
Christoph Niemann
Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer whose work has appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and Business Week. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. What is unique about Niemann is his ability to come up with fresh solutions to old problems. How he is able to realize an idea that is simultaneously witty and fresh. And he doesn't stop.
The art of Andrey Logvin
Russian artist Andrey Logvin became known in the late 1990's for his witty, bright, energetic posters. In 1996 he received the gold medal at the International poster Biennal in Warsaw, Poland.
International Design from New York, featured him as a master pushing the boundaries of the profession (the first Russian designer to be so honored).
Strange Attractors
Based in The Hague, the Netherlands, the international design firm Strange Attractors was founded five years ago by Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop. Their work reflects a keen interest in the intertwining of culture, media, context, experience and history. While they take a highly experimental approach to each of their wide-ranging design projects, their custom designed type and typography are hallmarks of their work. Through lectures and workshops they encourage designers and design students to see, value, and reinvent the vernacular around them—rather than capitulating to a generic globalist design approach.
Here is a site for the Rotterdam Design Prize (designed by Strange Attractors).
Here an interview with Strange Designers.
Flamingo Studio (Tokyo)
Flamingo Studio is a powerhouse led by Teruhiko Yumura, who pioneered the heta-huma, which translates as bad-good. It doesn't mean so bad it's good, but rather refers to the use of "bad" art.
Michael Punchman
"BOOM" according to Punchman is not the explosive sound of destruction, but the rich reward for making a difference -a call for action!
Gabriel Martínez Meave
Gabriel Martínez Meave is a self-taught graphic and typographic designer, illustrator, calligrapher, educator and author.
He is the founder of Kimera, a studio in Mexico City.
Friends with You (from Miami)
Friends with You is a company from Miami.
Established in 2002 by Miami-based artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FriendsWithYou set forth on a mission to spread the idea of Magic, Luck, and Friendship™ around the world, and become Friends-With-You!
Designed as a resource center for all things creative, FriendsWithYou is a unique think-tank that has the ability to seamlessly incorporate their distinct artistic style and one-of-a-kind ideas into a wide range of mediums and applications. FriendsWithYou’s work spans all creative realms from fine art to large-scale experiential installations and interactive events to public playgrounds, directorial work, live performances, animation and multimedia projects, branding and licensing. All FriendsWithYou projects offer once in a lifetime experiences, as FriendsWithYou is in a category of its own as a first class multidisciplinary art collective and creative studio (from FwY website).
LUST
There is no other conceptual studio in The Netherlands where conceptual thinking about graphic design and cutting edge digital technology are as obviously interdependent as they are at LUST. Its members describe themselves and their select group of like-minded designers as Generation Random. What means that every piece conceived by LUST has an element that is randomly generated. Each job is seen as an incentive to research and question the strategies and workings of design itself.
LUSTlab researches, generates hypotheses and makes unstable media stable again. The future of digital media lies in the design of its use. Humanizing the unhuman, bringing the internet down to earth and finding the missing link between the digital and the physical. The outcomes vary from (strategic) visions to new communication tools, man-machine installations and physical products using digital content.
Enter LUST.
Naohiro Ukawa
A jack of all trades and master at none, however, Naohiro Ukawa is an exception. His art combines sensuality of deep house, the experimentation of techno, the chaos of noise and the stylish cool of punk. Check some of Ukawa's videos here (Ukawa's Second from top marked with * for FinalExam).
Brian Chippendale
Brian Chippendale is a new post-post modernist hybrid between music and art. His work embodies a kind of visual/noise aesthetics, influenced by punk, trash & DIY philosophy. The visuals feed on the music and viceversa. Check out the other Chippendale profile here and here. His Ninja and Maggot series (the former took five years in the making) have developed a cult following. Chippendale video's here.
Deanne Cheuk
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Deanne Cheuk is the kind of artist that does not see a barrier between design and illustration or illustration and art. As illustrator, designer, art designer and artist, she fluently mixes watercolor, oils, pen, pencil and thread (as well as software, of course). Cheuk, born in Australia and currently residing in New York was labeled one of 34 “Young Guns” under the age of 30 by The Art Directors Club NY, one of “20 under 30” by Print Magazine and one of “The best people of 2004” by Time Magazine. She is a contributor to Nippon Vogue, and Dazed & Confused magazine. Her work has been commissioned by numerous magazines including Nylon, BlackBook, The Fader, Flaunt and The New York Times Magazine, She has art directed and designed numerous magazines including Tokion Arem Duplessis
Duplessis takes from fine art, diagrams in old psychology, and sharks (yes, he's an avid scuba diver) as inspiration. His work is a useful example of innovative typography, it makes explaining elements like scale, space and rhythm pun and metaphor easier to digest. He is currently the Art Director of The New York Times Magazine. He has held design-director and art-director positions at various titles, including Spin, GQ and Blaze magazines. He has received over 300 awards from organizations like the Society of Publication Designers, where he most recently won both the "Members Choice Award" for best magazine and the prestigious "Magazine of the Year Award" for work done at The New York Times Magazine. More on Duplessis here (Duplessis top ilustration, marked * for Final Exam).
AnDy ReMeNtEr
Andy Rementer (Philadelphia) earned graphic design degrees from University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is the happiest creating comics. The medium gives him the freedom to do as he pleases. Zany, biting, offbeat, wacky, witty, wry, dry, paranoid, off the wall.
That's Rementer's world.
Construction paper Valentine’s card.
With help from Margherita Urbani. Winter, 2010
Forrest Tea, 2009
Art for sale
With help from Margherita Urbani. Winter, 2010
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