Neville Brody

Neville Brody is a British designer based in London who attended the London College of printing he is an art director and also designer at the London college of printing which is next to elephant and castle he apply his skills toward record cover designs he had a place to be an art director. Then he was putted on press and magazines his work is then shown there. He is very hard working he pushes the boundaries of visual communications to being experimental in his work to creating some thing really interesting and he continues to explore his knowledge of visual communication to wider extent of his understandings to a higher level

Brody has put his work up of his first of his two monographs, which he credited the world best graphic design book sold in 1988. His work is shown at the victoria Albert museum attracted over 40,000 visitors. What I like about his work is eye catching has a meaning and it sends us the visual message to tell us what it is about. His work is seen by Europe and Japan, as it is very interesting to see his compositions. His work has a strong visual strength.

Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass was born 27^th December 1987 he’s an Australian artist doing graphic and design he’s a very cultivated designer this I’m trying to explain he’s big fan in traveling and willing too learn from others as experience to enhance his designs

He’s been to a lot of countries around the world and is keen to explore and learn

The differences. He’s a freelance designer dealing with corporate identity (logo) design, web design, and print design and branding. He won his first free lance Job when he the age of 16 and now is Majoring Graphic Design He’s based in Newcastle, Sydney till then he moved to America   to join carrot creative agency doing media strategy, design & development. After the time he’d work at carrot creative for six months he then move to work for the wonder factory and interactive design studio in Chelsea, New York for a few months.  What I like about this graphic artist he uses good in depth study the world. The style of work he does is interesting and easy to understand its eye catching is a modernize design which I like the work of his in this aspect it reflect good hierarchy and design methods.

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser birth date is 1929 he’s a well known graphic designer in the United States Milton Glaser was selected in 2004 for the life time of his achievement award of the cooper Hewitt National Design Museum 

Who studied there with a colleague named Giorgio Morandi in Bologna

He later opened up Milton Glaser Inc. in 1974 that he continued on creating an astounding amount of work for his own company. He was educated in cooper union art school he studied music and art while there he did an scholarship by Fulbright at the academy of fine art in bologna Italy. His highly commendable works of Milton Glaser is influenced worldwide. What I like his work is it is creative has good positive spacing’s in his works its has some of his work complies with collage which colorful and spontaneously good form of art work. I the uses of his Colour choices, which he chose for his art, work. Clay Felker then published his fame to magazines. He is Italian born artist. He is a modern renaissance man who concentrates on modern art. Some of his works are then placed in Paris in Louvres. Which show cased there in Paris.

Jeff Finley

Jeff Finley

This is the biography of Jeff Finley he’s an illustrator and also an designer located in the US in Cleveland, Ohio he’s the leading owner for go media which is an agency which widely respected and credited with a number of clients in the music industry. He ideally directing his skills towards for filming industry he takes part to acknowledge social networking sites.

He how ever creates symbolic t-shirts representing illustrative typography with also with illustrated expressive themes. What I like and chosen to write about is his work why because its creative and it has an artistic approach to the modern art it consist of conventional art his work includes mix media techniques.  What I like about his work is it very influential in today art in illustration to Jeff creativity style of work.  Involves different art mediums and process’s e.g. photographic or imagery art with collage. Jeff Finley is really well known for his illustrations hands on media and computer generated media and film productions. Where he is more famous known for by his career and success in filmmaking and also illustration.  I there for I would like to incorporate this skills in my studies as I’m too doing illustration.

Tom Whalen

Tom

Tom Whalen is an illustrator and graphic designer and 3d designer he’s based in the USA. Tom was born in 1934 and died 2002. He’s well known for the work he did in the character for star wars “Rorr’hn of Drgi”, which is an alien character. He was just 21years of age when his entry was published.

 What I like about his work is its trendiness and his very good use of colours he uses in his work. I also like the realism or the way his art works seem to be transformed into reality. His drawings also portrays good ideas and for these reasons and more I have decided to write about him.

Tom Whalen did the duck dodgers cartoon or the first Looney Tunes print and made Monster Incorporation. I have also seen other Pixar characters that were were created by Tom. I was left feeling in awe of his creations.

They have individual characteristics  I think his work of his illustration works very well  as he adds high design flare to his work. He’s also published loads of series of cartoon drawing for duck dodgers which came in the 24 1/2th Century where the Loony tunes came too print.

Nick La

Nick La

Nick La is a free Lance illustrator and web designer who is based in Toronto Canada. He works in Nick owns for the N. Design studio. His known for popularly for blog web designer.  He recently launched a new web site directed towards icons in the industry.

Nick has said that he’d wanted to be a visual artist, who had a career in drawing and painting when he was a kid. His main strengths were illustrations and creating web sites in CSS. 

What I like about his work is that it’s very vibrant and colorful and catches the attention of the viewer’s eye.  He creates good patterns and shapes it very harmonious his work is very peaceful as the color he uses represents peace and joy. All so, I like the way he’s incorporated computer software for into his work. This has made it to stand out. I also like the way he uses vector art with fluidity of patterns in his work. These computerized vector graphics are remarkably pleasing to the eyes.

Nick La was first introduced into the world of art by a teacher, who got him deciding to doing graphic design.

Saul bass

Saul bass

Saul Bass was born in 1920 and died 75 years later. In his life time or in a career that last 40 years he was a known graphic designer as well as film maker.

Better still, he will be remembered for his design of film posters and picture title sequences.

Saul bass was the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants he attended James Monroe high school and studied art at student league in Manhattan and later Brooklyn College. He got his break when he collaborated with a filmmaker by the name Otto Preminger to design the film poster for his 1954 film Carmen Jones. Saul bass Impressed Mr. Preminger so much that he asked him to produce the title sequence as well.  What shone the lime light on him was the title sequence for the film “ The Man With The Golden Arm (1955).

Many in the filming industry credit Saul bass as the pioneer or father of the sequences, contemporary filmmakers like martin Scorsese and James L. brook re- introduced him into what he knows best. Himself and his wife Elaine Bass created the title sequence for films such as Good fellas (1990), Cape fear (1991) , The Age of Innocence (1993) and Casino (1995) – which was the his last title sequence. He moved from his traditional optical techniques into computerized effects. Some of his work includes – Carmen Jones (1954).

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American Film Director and Photographer. She is first a photographer before a film director. She was born in 1954 in New Jersey. Cindy started out as an artist in buffalo state college. She however became bored and disillusioned about her then course she then decided to pursue photography.

Many regard her as promoting or using her work to high light the plight of women. And consequently form her as a feminist. Cindy is most known for photographing her self in various costumes. She is known to shoot her self in her studio she is very competitive and says this in this regards, ‘I’m still really competitive when it comes to I guess the male painters and male artists’.

Cindy’s directorial credentials have seen her direct a comedy horror film in 1971-called Office Killer. This was her only film to date. Before are lists of some of her artist works.  

·      Bus Driver (1976)

·      Film Still (1978)

·      Rear Screen Projection (1980)

·      Centre fold (1981)

·      Fashion (1983)

·      History Portrait (1990)

She’s currently active in the art world and is still a female icon.

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce is a British Afro – Caribbean artist. She is also known or considered a painter, draughts women and a multi-media artist. Sonia Boyce was born in 1962, attended East Ham College and later Stourbridge College of Art. She left later in 1983.

Her early works of chalk and pastel drawings centered around the very volatile issues of race, ethnicity and contemporary urban experiences. These she also used in depicting friends and family. She used her work to question racial stereotypes that was in the daily media and lives of ordinary people.

Currently Boyce’s work has shifted or progressed from pastel drawings, photographic colleges, the questioning of racial stereotypes into conceptual material art. Boyce will let anybody know in plain words that her works are at re – orientating and re-negotiating the position of Black or Afro Caribbean art within mainstream of culture. Whether this is in Britain or out side Britain.

Since the 1980s Boyce’s mark in the mainstream art world was made through the medium of drawings. However, she has decided to diversify into photography, installation and mix media. Boyce has attended many art related seminars and held numerous exhibitions and attended many more. She has a residency at the university of Manchester. She doubles as the creative practitioner and co-director of the African and Asian and Visual Artist Archive her works include

·      Black female hair styles (1995)

·      One afro, twenty – five people (1996)

·      The audition curtain (1998)

·      Choral 1 and 2 (2000/01)

For some one who started her career at the British Home Stores. Sonia Boyce has done well to establish her self a  black female artist. 

Identity

The word Identity is much easier to spell than define. Why one might ask. A persons identity can be varied and complex. identity can be how people either see you or perceive you. Again ones identity can also be how one wants to be see. A man who has siblings who have children and is married with his own children and surviving parents who is a school teacher has various identities. his identities will change depending on where he is and who is asking. his somebody's brother. sons, husband , father and uncle and teacher. one man with multiple identities .his gender , race and place of origin have not being included though.  

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of signs I am going to define and explain the meaning of semiotics. In this matter signs can be an image of a meaning to the context like what does an apple represent to us it would say its a representational sign to us because it has many other meanings than of just an apple for instance the sign has a meaning of the listed means life, a fruit it is a meaning coming from literal to lateral meanings signs how ever we see in our every day life for instance simplify means a object and simplified means too what transform the meaning too which ever a flower represents love and compassion. Signs are how ever can be hand made or can be from nature we represent signs in knower days to give us information and sense of direction to our daily lives too the world we live in has many sign to tell us what they are. The word signs conjure various meanings to different people some times these meanings are a reflection of our profession or every day lives. To a driver, road signs will jump to mind a pub-crawler will think of pub signs. A pilot will think of the many signs in the cockpit of his plane.  

To me signs mean information for example such as roads signs and also traffic lights. 

Modernism/postmodernism

Modernism is new terminology which conjures a new form of art ,which is an off spring of postmodern movement both are very differently to each other because they are variant art styles. and both existed in different centuries. Modernism was in the 20th century while postmodern movement was in 19th century is how they came to live the splitting of the two movements. They are the worst of enemies because of there differences of art they are battling with the modern and postmodern era of art the stylistic movements have change or spread to larger cultivated movement during from the Vietnam war to big demonstration to political actions in the world has changed the art which we now call modernism and postmodern art is doesn’t want to be forgotten off or gotten rid off as they’d feud on too distinction. Modern art is the now term for art we see or use now the modern art is how is Folding over the postmodern era. The art, which we see, are modern view like clean tidy and slick and trendy. The moral is like. “Your speculation that great art involves both poles of the self is fascinating and should be pursued”. By Heinz Kohut