Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
Mammoth Mountain
Logo for Mammoth Mountain ski resort.
Explaining Death to Children
Designer: unknown
Grollman, Earl A. Explaining Death to Children. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
A Million Little Pieces
Cover design: Rodrigo Corral
Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces. New York: Random House, 2003.
Small Crimes In an Age of Abundance
Cover design: David Drummond
Book design: Fritz Metsch
Kneale, Matthew. Small Crimes In an Age of Abundance. New York: Anchor, 2006.
The Cigarette Century
Cover design: Rodrigo Corral
Cover photograph: Fredrik Broden
Brandt, Allen M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. United States: Basic Books, 2007.
Mary Carbine
Logo for Mary Carbine, Assistant Director, Film Studies Center at University of Chicago
the forgotten corner
“The Forgotten Corner and other Essays”
Emile A. Rasmussen
20 pages
5½ x 8½ in.
YWCA
Replacing Saul Bass’ original, the redesigned YWCA logo (2004) emphasizes mission over the organization’s name for an exciting, aggressive and empowering identity. Read the full case study here.
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The Design Revolution
90% of the designers in the world design products for 10% of the people who have a lot of money.
Excerpt:
“Like societies in the dark ages, people struggling with poverty have needs more basic than good typography. They need the essential things that sustain life and learning and, in order to be relevant to them, we need to think the way they do. Graphic designers will have to design new ways of thinking, and different things to design, in order to join the revolution.
In First Things First 2000 design manifesto, a group of graphic designers argued against the trend for designers to ‘apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles,’ out of fear that it has become ‘the way the world perceives graphic design.’
By now we’ve all had the opportunity to flip off a Hummer owner or two, but the changes we need to make, and the shifts that need to occur, go much deeper than the manifesto would imply. To me, First Things First is an admission of the fact that the majority of designers have become the tools of corporations, and that graphic design has lost its own voice and its power to change thinking rather than just sell things.”
“The Design Revolution: Which side are you on?” by Cheryl Heller
