STUDENT EVALUATIONS

DEAR CLASS, IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE TO BE YOUR TEACHER.

IT'S TIME TO EVALUATE MY PERFORMANCE. 

AM A FALLIBILIST AND A SKEPTIC. I NEED YOUR FEEDBACK. 

THIS IS YOUR VOICE. YOUR EVALUATION IS ANONYMOUS. IT'S GOOD METRIC FOR THE SCHOOL.

DID YOU LIKE IT? SAY IT. DID YOU HATE IT? SAY IT. 

AM THE MARK NOW,

GO AHEAD!

Post Typography's (LETTERS WITHOUT RULES)

Post Typography was founded in 2001 by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen. They define their style as Punk Rock vs. Swiss Modernism.

Post Typography's message:

We each will carve our visage from the faceless screen, and let the ink from our pens bleed into our hands and paper. We will cast off the shackles of Photoshop to return to the freedom of letters without rules. We are the Times New Romans! We are the Franklin Gothics!

Chen Shaohua's (MODERN DESIGN)

Chen Shaohua is one of the most representative designers in China today. Since he enrolled at the Xi'an Fine Art Academy in 1972, he has participated and led almost all the development and reform of graphic design in modern China.

As the earliest professional designer, Shaohua opened the first private commercial design studio in Shenzhen in southern China. Before this career, he worked on exhibitions, advertising and movie graphics. In 1978 he entered the Central Art and Design Academy of Beijing to study traditional Chinese decorative art.

After graduation he went back to Xi'an Fine Art Academy to teach and research modern graphic design, and he now trains many graphic designers, who are now the majority group in the field of modem Chinese design.

As the first teacher to advocate reform of design education in China, Chen provided Beijing's Olympic Candidate City logo in 2000. He is a visiting professor at several universities and his blog is visited every day by thousands of students and designers. He also puts great effort into working for the benefit of all Chinese designers.

first thing first manifesto, 2000

 

the FTFM, launched by Adbusters, is a document of purpose of a generation of designers talking about concerns and priorities of the profession for the twenty-first century. the 34 signatories are amongst the most respected of the profession.   

click here for the full text of the manifesto, and list of signatories.

There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.

We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication -a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.

List of images for final exam, spring 2024

1.

Christoph Niemann, illustration, New York, Berlin, (early 2000's).

2.

Andrey Logvin, High Resolution, Poster (early 2000's).

3.

Flamingo Studios, This is Ja, Poster (early 2000's).

4.

Post Typography, Poster, (early 2000's).

5.

Atelier Rene Knip, Netherlands, Design installation, (late 1990's).

6.

Martin Woodtli, Sport Design, Poster (1990's).

7.

Fons Hickmann, Heimatkunde, Platinum Award Poster (2014).

8.

Maviyane-Davies, Many Rivers to Cross, Zimbabwe (1990's).

9.

 Jop van Bennekom, The Face, Cover (1996)

10.

Sara Fanelli, Book spread: Pinocchio, (early 2000's).

11.

Andy Rementer, Good Morning, Poster (2000's)

12.

Ken Tsai-Lee, Defeat Aids, Poster (1990-2000's).

13.

Jonathan Barnbrook, David Bowie's cover of Heathen (2002).

14.

Arem Duplessis,  New York Times Magazine? Study for cover, (2000's)

15.

Chris Ware, A Feeling Those People, Graphic Novel (2000's).

16.

David Carson, The Black Swan, Cover, (2011).

17.

Stefan Sagmeister, Form Magazine, Cover (2008). 

18.

Jamie Reid, Pretty Vacant, Poster (1977).

19.

Deborah Sussman, Los Angeles Olympiad, signage (1984).

20. 

 Pat Gorman & Frank Olinsky, MTV logo, (1982).

21.

April Greiman, Wet, Cover (1979).

22.

Ed Fella, Architecture & Urban Design, Poster (1989).

23.

Wes Wilson, Fillmore Concert Poster, (1967).

24.

Bill Atherton and Allan Brooking, Pregnant Man, Poster, (1969).

25.

 Paul Rand, Westinghouse Logo, (1960).

26.

William Golden, CBS Logo (1951).

27.

 Saul Bass, The Man with the Golden Arm, Poster (1955).

 28.

George Lois, Esquire Cover, New York (1968).

29.

Die Design Politie, Can Tourism Benefit the Poor? Poster (2003).

30.

Franciszek Starowieyski, Lulu, Poster (1970's).

31.

Jan Lenica, Wozzeck, Poster, (1969).

32.

Iman Raad, A Single Work, Poster (2007).

33.

Joseph Müller Brockman, Less Noise!, International Typographic Style, Poster (1960).

34.

Herb Lubalin, Ad for Ebony, New York (1968).

35.

                Herbert Matter, Poster for Swiss Tourism (1934).

36.

                  

László Moholy-Nagy, Poster for BAUHAUS (1931).

37.

Alvin Lustig, Catalog for World Inventors Exposition (1947). 

38. 

Lester Beall, Here it Comes, Rural Electrification Poster (1930). 

Your turn #10

Poster for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, by Jacek Staniszewski

Wow, what a class! I hope you enjoyed our discussion of the brief history of Polish posters. Why is this development so significant for the history of art and graphic design in particular? This is one of the few times in the history of art (with the exception of the advent of the Gothic in the 11th Century AD) that, for a brief moment, the art produced by the artists prevailed over ideology and censorship to bring forth a highly original style that was embraced by the people. It took a tacit understanding between both the artists and the people that this wonderfully diverse, colorful & bizarre imagery was the only way to tap into freedom. 

So, again, we have plenty to discuss (besides Polish posters): Alvin Lustig, Helvetica, Dada collage, Moholy-Nagy, Shigeo Fukuda, advertising, propaganda, Fortune magazine, George Giusti, Kula Robbins' Jenny on the job, Norman Rockwell, etc. (to avoid cacophony, if a comment addresses Polish posters, please, talk about individual artists, so more people have a chance to contribute). 

Go ahead!