Designers: Kyle Cooper and Shepard Fairy

Kyle Cooper studied under Paul Rand. He was influenced by Saul Bass. He is a title and ending sequence artist. He also works with typography in his sequences.  He also does animation for T.V. spots and video games as well as the movie sequences. He works with interesting effects, fonts, video clips, and animations. He did some title sequences such as Curios George, Spider Man, Dawn of the Dead, and Se7en. 

Shepard Fairey started designing stickers and skateboards because of his interest in music and skateboarding. His styles encompasses art deco, sunbursts, the darker side, hidden messages, bold colors and fonts. He has done work with Black Sabbath , Andre the Giant, and President Obama. His first sticker was Andre the Giant OBEY and put them up everywhere. He did political posters, music posters, and designs for skateboards and snowboards.

Designers: Stefan Sagmeister and Clement Mok

Stefan Sagmeister was influenced by Tibor Kalman with social responsibility and activism. He also worked in one of Leo Burnett's groups in Hong Kong. He later opened Sagmeister INC. in New York City. He uses a lot of hand written elements, not much for the computer. He also uses a lot of photography. His style has described as interesting, quirky, and inventive. He is also well known for using the human body as his canvas. He takes a year off every 7 years to reboot and not get stuck in a rut.

Clement Mok worked for Apple and helped launced the Macintosh computer. He had his foot in every door ncluding designing, developing, web developer and software producer to name a few. He used bold colors and geometric lines in his designs. He mainly did logos and identity designs, but also did package design in the late 90's. He created his own business/company after leaving Apple called Clement Mok Design. He also co-created AIGA.

Designers: Tibor Kalman, David Carson, and Matthew Carter

Tibor Kalman was a social activist. He had an isolated childhood because he could not speak English, this worked out for him because his style and art was affected by this. He liked to put social issues into his work. He and his wife, Maria, found M&Co. in 1979. He did magazine covers, bag designs, album covers, and stuff for restaurants. He did interesting, quirky things such as paper weights and weird watches. Helped create the United Colors of Bennetton to help promote peace.

A lack of theory best describes David Carson's style. Typography is at the top of his list with the style in his design. His style seems spontaneous, but there are a few constant ideas in all of his works. He is branching out to film as of now. He is best know for his work and time at Raygun. His idea on typography was that it didn't need to be legible to be understood.

Matthew Carter is a typography designer. The first half of his career he designed and created typefaces, the second half of his career he did digital type work. He went to London and worked with other artists to create new typefaces. He founded Extreme Ink with a few other artists. He created Bell Centennial which is still used in Phone books today. He was influenced by serif fonts which helped him create some of his designs. He created Verdana for Microsoft and he created ink traps for letters so they would smudge and loose their sharp corners.

Designers: Neville Brody, Art Chantry, and Storm Thorgerson

Neville Brody was influenced by music, especially Punk music. He was greatly influenced by the rebellious side to Punk music and the Punk culture. He used typography in a new and different way along with his use with contrasting color. He did magazine covers, advertisements, digital designs, and record covers to name some.

Art Chantry was influenced by his childhood past. He was also influenced by the hippie subculture and the Vietnam War. He is very well know for his grunge, punk, rock and roll, and random style. He didn't like using computers, he liked recycling images and using original pieces.

Storm Thorgerson designed about 15o album covers. He used photography in a layering affect to create his images. He designed the Dark Side of the Moon album cover among other various artists' album covers. He uses a very large central figure with a smaller figure to the side. He does a lot of interesting album covers that relate to the music. In 1968 he created Hipgnosis with Aubry "Po" Powell. He was influenced by Munch, Dali, and Maurice Sendak.

Designers: April Greiman, Milton Glaser, and Seymour Chwast

April Greiman's style embraced New Wave Design. She used unusual typefaces and different angles with this style. She then started using a more 3D aspect to her design. She inspired people to start using computers to design. She was very well known for her layering of imagery. She then started working with Jayme Odgers and incorporated digital and graphic images into her works.

Milton Glaser's style can be described with three words; directness, simplicity, and originality.
He established his own company Milton Glaser Inc. which has a wide range of design disciplines. He had influences with comic books, Art Nouveau, and Pop Art. He liked to leave his work up for interpretation.

Seymour Chwast was greatly influenced by comic books and Walt Disney characters. He was one of the founders of Push Pin Studio, and is also known for his posters and children's book illustrations. He likes to have a large central image with the typography on the outter edges. He liked to work with the speedball pen and with woodcuts to help with his designs.

Thesis Statement

Leo Burnett was one of the most influential advertising designers from the 20th century, creating some of the most well know icons such as Tony the Tiger, the Jolly Green Giant, and the Marlboro Man. He proved that visual communication with images was much more powerful than any amount of words could be.

Before Class: Psychedelic Poster Mania 4/15/09

1. Sum up the reading in your own words in 1 paragraph: This reading was really short, but had a lot of interesting and cool information. The "hippie" subculture movement began in the 1960s in the Haight-Ashbury section in San Francisco. It was kind of like and anti-establishment movement against the older generations. Social activism helped move it along with the help of the civil rights movement, women's liberation movement, and the protest of the Vietnam war. Psychedelic posters got their name from the association with rock and roll music and psychedelic drug use. Most of the artists during this time were self-taught and mainly designed and created posters for concerts and dances. Robert Wesley "Wes" Wilson was basically the innovator of the style and created psychedelic fonts. Victor Moscoso was the only artist with a formal education in art. Peter Max did amazing work, but was mainly seen as a pop artist. Psychedelic posters were influenced by art nouveaus curves and central women figures, pop art, and op-art (optical art).

2. Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.
One person that I found to be really interesting was Wes Wilson. I loved learning more about him throughout the reading and when I was doing my project. I thought it was really cool how he started and created the psychedelic fonts and how he was really the innovator behind the psychedelic poster style. I also really liked his work a lot.

3. State at least one question you have after the reading or from last class.
Why did the Berkeley Free Press go out of business? Was it to radical even in those times?