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    Referring to Erik Nitsche, digital director of the agency Journey Group, Z. Bryan, once said, “Swiss without being Müller-Brockmann. Playful without being Saul Bass. Clean without being Paul Rand. His style is decidedly Nitsche.” Erik Nitsche was born on July 7, 1908 in Lausanne, Switzerland into a family of commercial photographers. Nitsche’s grandfather had been working in China during the late nineteenth century and his father and uncles were well known portrait photographers. This seemed to play

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    April Greiman Analysis

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    often used computer technology as a design tool. More recently, she’s been creating web design, branding, signage, public art and has been consulting on color finishes and textures for architectural projects. She was heavily influenced by the “International style” or modern architecture. Greiman’s Trans-media design: Does it make sense? Design quarterly #133 1986, Mit press / Walker Art center, can be seen at Centre Pompidou, Paris. Greiman’s education on becoming a designer

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    At the heart of this was the idea that sort could be expressive, and forego the requests of moderation, for flashiness, for this reason. Subsequently content might be set utilizing numerous textual styles in numerous courses of action, perfect or worn out, methodical or disordered. Singular letters could be the subject of a craftsman 's consideration, and, in resistance to the straightness and normality of sans serif, shape, spiked edges and conflicting

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    Paula Scher is an American graphic designer who was born October 6, 1948 in Virginia and grew up in both Philadelphia and Washington D.C. She is not only a graphic designer but a painter, art educator in design and also the first female principle at Pentagram. She has been working in the industry for over three decades and is well known for her work in identity design, packaging design, publication design and environmental graphics. Her father was an engineer for the US Geological Survey and through

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    Is Neville Brody the true legend of our time? The traditions of typography are not fun; communication should be entertaining!” (Brody, 1988, p.18). The Early Years Neville Brody was born on 23rd April 1957. Brody grew up in Southgate, a suburb close to London. While in secondary school Brody studied A-level art, he stated: “I don’t remember a time in my life when I was going to do anything else. Ever since I had any self-awareness I’ve wanted to do art or painting.” (Brody, 1988, p.5) In 1975

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    Identities are a major section of the contemporary graphic industry; no matter how big or small a project may be, a successful design outcome is likely to involve at least some aspects of an identity. This is most frequently through the production of a design piece in a way that creates a visual coherence, be that through the use of a certain structure, typeface, colour or any other consistency. However quite obviously the most frequently related sector of design to the creation of such identities

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    Barbara Kruger

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    for coming all the way from Houston to Washington Dc to learn about my favorite feminist artist Barbara Kruger. I came down here to get more in depth about Kruger’s painting ‘’your body is a battleground’’ which was made in 1989 with a more modern style, being contemporary. In this artwork Barbara is stating her feelings towards the unfairness of women’s rights and how she is so supporting on the right for us women to choose on our decision in our life. With this piece she described it as ‘’ the female

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    Communism And Cubo-Futurism

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    of this movement were in the medium of books and publications. The use of coarse paper and handcraft production methods expressed the poverty of peasant society as well as the meager resources of artists and writers (Meggs 287). An example of the style was a playbook for the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (see fig. 49). In it, rough abstract drawings combine with varying type weights to convey meaning. The logical progression from Cubo-Futurism was Suprematism. The

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    conceived within a milieu of significant tobacco usage; in 2005, there were more than 1.25 billion smokers worldwide (Roemer, Taylor & Lariviere, 2005). The origins of the FCTC lie in a push for the WHO to employ its constitutional powers to establish international conventions with a view to advance global health, particularly related to tobacco use. Having first been conceptualised in 1993, this proposal was delivered to the WHO by Roemer and Taylor in 1995. In 1996, the World Health Assembly voted for its

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    Post 9/11 Political Issues

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    American government and mainstream media created an illusion of external and internal threat for its citizens, and attempted to use this propagandised fear to obtain public support for their international repression and external intervention policies. The range

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