Assessment 4:Case Study on a Designer
Paula Scher
Paula Scher is one of the most well known and influential postmodern graphic designer for over 30 years. In 1970, Scher began developing her eclectic, playful and expressive approach to design and typography, using it to convey content and create identity. Scher has been designing record covers, advertisements, identities and environmental graphics for a broad range of clients such as CBS Records, Atlantic Records, American Institute of Graphic Design (AIGA), New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), and among others. Her philosophy was to make things that the public could relate to and to understand her design, she also wants to raise expectations about what the “mainstream” can be (Scher, 1989). This essay will be looking into Paula Scher’s biography, achievements, and analyzing her design works to explore her historical context, contributions, principles, philosophy and achievements in design.
Scher’s design approach arises from her education at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, where she studied illustration. Scher lacked the skills to draw but she received an advice from her illustrator teacher, Stanislaw Zagorsk, at Tyler School of Arts to “illustrate with type”. With this advice, Scher has been coming up with ideas and illustrating them with type for many projects. During the 1970s, Scher began her work as a designer for the CBS Records, allowing her to innovate and experiment with her approach to design.
This new genre in art quickly confirmed Greiman’s position as the pioneer of visual communication and design. Her eagerness to learn and explore this new medium is what has gotten her the respect and appreciation for her work. Her ability to engage the audience and embrace spaces by providing a floating effect to her work, combining architecture and typographic forms allowed her to become one of the most prominent icons in the design world.
If we examine our existence through a dichotomous lens of internal and external experiences, it is easier to understand the importance of graphic design. Everyone, to some extent, is trapped within themselves. There is me in here, and you in there—a separation exists. We find common ground in the external world where there are certain rules that most of us have agreed to play by. Graphic design functions as a catalyst for either strengthening or disintegrating these rules. It screams, “Continue! Begin! Stop!” The graphic designer must work through the external world, understand its rules, and journey through their internal world in search of a project’s solution. If the solution is successful,
Feminist artist Betye Saar was born on July 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her father died when she was five years old; after that her family moved to Pasadena, California. To make a living for the family, Saar’s mother became a seamstress and also recycled and reused a lot of daily scraps that weren’t used to make things that her children needed. The remaking and looking over everyday house things influences some of Betye Saar’s later work. Betye Saar’s art career began in 1945 where she went to The University of California Los Angeles and majored in design. She received a bachelor’s in design in 1949 but worked as a social worker and continued design on the side. She back to college, California State University at Long Beach, in 1958 to get a degree in education in which she was very successful in receiving. In Long Beach, Saar was introduced to and got very acquainted with printmaking. This was the start of her artistic career and soon she began to do artwork that incorporated various themes such as
Graphic design is a vast industry in visual communication, using information, typography, isotopes, and diagrams as a way to communicate across to its audiences. Through detailed investigations of design and taking on Robin Kinross (1985), claims that the distinction between design for information and design for persuasion “cannot be a clear one” this work will explore the possibilities of visual rhetoric in graphic design.
The design of Jared Granger site has a clean, simple homepage that shows his name and his brief introduction. This site has his projects name with the full image of a project on each page with the black box, “View Projects”, which are directed to his projects pages. Also, the design has “Contact” link for people to contact him and his social network links for people to view his profile page and projects. These projects have shown the designers’ creativity and ideas in typography, logo, and corporate identity, which is attracted to audiences. The design identity relates to the designer’s perception of his work because they are visualized through the designer’s ideas and creativity and used them to be demonstrated and visible in their works and this site allows an audience to use their insights and opinions on their tone, style, personality, and perception of the designer’s works.
The wayback-background begins with two very understanding and supportive non-artsy parents that stocked their house full of every pencil, marker, and paint set imaginable. Jessica grew up knowing she wanted to do something art related for a living but had no idea what graphic design was until Sophomore year of college. She took an intro course and was hooked. Design was satisfying in a completely different way than fine art—everything was like a puzzle you had to solve. As a nineteen-year-old from Nowheresville, Pennsylvania who lived a relatively charmed existence, she didn’t feel like she had much to “express” yet. Being able to think and execute artwork on the behalf of others—to address their needs rather than her own—was a giant “Eureka!” moment.
It is almost impossible to imagine how many lives Seymour Chwast has touched with his work. Chwast was and still is the driving force behind the creation of countless advertisements, book covers, magazines, and other works of art. It would be difficult to imagine the field of graphic design without his influence.
David Carson had such an impact on the graphic design scene throughout the 90’s that he was nicknamed “The Godfather of Grunge.” Having a highly specialized style of contemporary work he is considered to be one of the greats of this field. His career first started to take flight with a magazine called “Ray Gun” this is where he started getting recognition for his distinct layouts and innovative typographies. September 8, 1954, You could say a legend was born, Carson excelled at many things over his life in 1989 he was considered to be in the top 10 surfers in the world. Which ironically enough led him to graphic design.
Her current studio practice focuses on works that explore her interests in mark making as it relates to a pattern, drawing and personal expression. Stinson works ranges from the functional to sculptural. Each format is a way for her to engage the viewer on different and multiple levels. Stinson also utilizes multiple methods of making, throwing, slip casting, and press molding, to attain a variety of effects and unique characteristics in the finished work. These process and surfaces help to develop the underlining content in the finished pieces.
De Lisa has a range of design experience - from print and digital products to creative logos, marketing materials, illustrations, and animation graphics. As a Graphic Designer at CommunicateHealth, she creates engaging designs that meet both the client goals and the best practices of user-focused, accessible design. She is creative, organized, and skilled at applying her knowledge of graphic design techniques, standards, and principles to maximize the success of her deliverables.
Milton Glaser, Cipe Pineles, Alan Fletcher, and Abram Games, all reimagined the core values of graphic design. Milton Glaser is one of the most well-known artists, being that he created designs we see every day. These include the I *heart* NY label and the Target logo. Also, Glaser earned his way into the spotlight through his use of bold colors and warped images. A marvel for filling a gap between seeing and understanding, Glaser has sculpted a new way of expression through graphic design (Stribley). Milton Glaser was not the only graphic designer to leave his mark on the world. Women such as Cipe Pineles knew how to succeed in a field dominated by men. She is best known for her work in high-end magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Charm, and Seventeen. As a pioneer in magazine art and collage design, Pineles pushed designers to “break free from limitations”(Stribley). Her advancements in this field lead many magazine companies to be expressive with their designs (Stribley). Furthermore,
Bass’s designs seem to appear as if they’re cut out from construction paper and pasted onto the page in an orderly manner. He plays with simplicity, minimalism, and iconic and stark imagery. These qualities in his work stand out from the crowd and helped him develop his own personal and iconic way of design. He is proof that simplicity in design can be just as effective as embellished works, if not more.
Paul Rand, a top influence in the field of design brought America into the modern era of design. This study will give a background to Rands life and how his upbringing impacted his future endeavors. It will then cover his primary works and discuss work that became a defining part of his career and the industry. Following that, it will discuss how Rands work in advertising and Corporate Identity set the groundwork for today design thinking. Finally, the thesis will examine modern designers that sought out Rand as a source of inspiration. This thesis will look at why Paul Rand is said to be one of the most influential graphic designers in history, and why his principles translate into good design that resonates for generations to follow.
Milton Glaser: Taking inspiration from the history of art and graphic design, Glaser created a new style of graphic communication that combines visual and intellectual concepts.
Meredith Davis’s book “Graphic Design Theory” was published in September 2012 by Thames & Hudson. This book blends a study of historical thinking of design with contemporary / modern approach to it. It also suggests students to critically analyse their work and asks them to adopt the design theories to embellish their practical design work as it will help them construct better work. This book also helps in understanding the consumers and the history of Graphic Design and also talks about a range of theories and introduces a collection of concepts and sources for future use and reference. In this book, Meredith Davis talks about the relationship of visual representation to the contexts of design. It talks about focusing on the broad and long term aftereffects of design and not to design only for the moment and responding to prompt needs.