Monday, May 11, 2009

Influential Designers- May 8

Barber- Neville Brody 

Neville Broady worked with typography but he did it differently from other typographers. Brody always pushed himself to find new ways to make the text look. He would use like 4 or 5 different programs at the same time to get different effects for text. He also believed that the typeface he used made a difference to the reader. I agree with this, just like colors, fonts can give you a different feeling or attitude towards something.

Amanda- Art Chantry

Amanda told us that Art witnessed a lot of abuse as a child until he and his mother moved away from his father and even then they struggled financially. His childhood influenced his art. His work was not clean cut and most of the time it over lapped. The use of images in his work shows that he has a dadaist philosophy.

Zak- Storm Thorgerson

Storm knew the members of Pink Floyd since grammar school and created a lot of their stuff including their logo. He like to use a major central object with a smaller object next to it, which I find interesting because you don't usually hear it put like that. Most of the work he did seems to have been for music, album covers and some music videos he made. I feel that his close relationship with Pink Floyd are what made his work popular.

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