Test 4 - Part 2 Flashcards
British Psychedelics
- Very hard to read. / Squashed text.
- Created for entertainment and the rebellious youth.
- Borrowed from older art movements.
Rolling Stone magazine
- Connected to social and political values.
- Photography glamorized the artist.
- 1st magazine to focus on music culture.
Push Pin Studio
• A graphic Design firm in NYC.
Founded by Seymour Chwast, Reynold Ruffins, Edward Sorel and Milton Glaser.
• Most influential design firm. Pop culture and Fine Arts.
• International Style principles.
• Embraced obsolete art styles like Victorian typography on a cover of there magazine.
The publication used “Boxed Grid” to display new illustrations.
•Created the famous “I Luv NY” rebus.
1970’s Album Design
- Paula Scher
- Psychodelic Art
- Conceptual art
Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi drew from vernacular, Historicism
Being inspired by every day things.
Wolfgang Weingart
• 1st designer to abandon the international style
he was a type setter.
Poster art was used and grid but followed intuition.
Early Desktop Publishing
- Apple/Adobe/Aldus revolutionized graphic design and type
* April Greiman was one of the first to take advantage of the new tools.
Gert Dumbar/Studio Dumbar
- Developed an international following.
* Studio Dumbar became experimental, post modern, academic design.
Postmodernism of Resistance
- 1960 Reestablished poster as a vehicle for protest.
* To undermine aspects of society.
Grunge Designs
- Broke every rule of legibility.
* Elliot Earl
Depoliticized Design
- Grunge designers have been criticized for their lack of interest in political activism.
- Designers were not politically motivated.
Historicism and Appropriation
• Borrowing from older art movements and style of the past.
MTV
- Designed by Frank Olinsky, 1981, Manhattan Design.
- Marketed towards younger people.
- Logo appeared everywhere.
Chip Kidd
- Worked for Knopf Publishing.
- Started working right out of college.
- Started a trend for book covers by stacking elements.
Graffiti/Street Art
- Started in the 1970’s
- They used a letter style called “Wild Style”
- It was meant to be expressive.
- It appeared on trains in NYC.