Salas, Stefan Sagmeister interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_Vu_YzEPI&feature=related

STEFAN SAGMEISTER (1962-) is among today’s most important graphic designers. Born in Austria, he now lives and works in New York. His long-standing collaborators include the AIGA and musicians, David Byrne and Lou Reed.

Kuehne, Steven Heller

Steven Heller is an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design.

http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a9461.asp

Godwin, Matthew Carter interview

An interview with Matthew Carter about the neutrality of Helvetica.

Marcum, Milton Glaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0VPVbFY4Kg

Milton Glaser is a graphic designer. He talks about his job being both a businessman and an artist. He claims art is a very important part of culture and connects people, since they become part of the same experience. Graphic designers operate within the life of their time, they do things that have a relationship with the community and the world. Very inspiring!

Kyle T. Webster, Hamm

I found this guy in HOW Magazine, he created the "Original Design Gansta" viral video first for laughs, but instead made it his own self-promo piece. His piece landed him numerous opprotunities with great clients such as National Geographic and editioral clients.

http://www.howdesign.com/article/designgangsta/

This self-promotion opened several doors for him as a designer

King, Glen Keane

Glen Keane did animation and design for Disney. One of my favorite Disney movies ever is Beauty and the Beast and he designed the Beast character. Awesome! In this interview Keane talks about his career with Disney and the many amazing projects he worked on.

http://lineboil.com/2009/02/interview-with-disney-animator-glen-keane/

Serrano-Mendoza, Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger

Interview with Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger talks about creating a new type san-serif type face called Avenir®. He speaks over the differences in this new font and why this new typeface meets the need of modern typography.

Considine, Graham Clifford

Graham Clifford of Clifford Design: Craft versus Concept for Graphic Design Students from Brian Miller on Vimeo.

Be sure to check out the other interviews from Brian Miller on Vimeo.

Posted by Ryan Considine

Gaines, Layers Interview

http://www.layersmagazine.com/an-interview-with-david-carson.html

The interview with David Carson is great for anyone who doesn’t know much of anything about him. It discusses his latest book The Rules of Graphic Design which came out in the spring of 2008 showcasing his latest work at the time and the “official rules of graphic design”. The interview also talks about Carson’s inspiration sources, important things for designers to consider while designing, and his experience with Ray Gun. Overall it’s a great interview for designers who are just starting off or would even like the advice of one of the most well known respected designers of our time.

Berry, Mark Weaver, GoMediazine

My go-to place for insight on the design industry would be GoMediazine.com, they are a creative design company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Their website provides articles on tip how to market yourself, tips on how to tackle trick design project for a client, even tutorial on several design programs. The interview I have selected is with Mark Weaver, a current employee at Go Mediazine, and the synopsis how he got started in the industry, his inspiration, and possible for design trends.

WMC_Mark Weaver from Go Media on Vimeo.

Englert, Mark Weaver

This is my favorite graphic designer by far. the things he creates are so so cool. its all fairly simple things but very pleasing to the eye. somewhat of a new guy also.

Martinez, Frank Olinsky

Frank Olinksy is a graphic designer, art director, and an illustrator. He is the designer of the logo for the popular tv newtwork MTV and many album packages. In his interview he talks about his use of photography and process of creating his designs. A few of his other projects include work for the Smashing Pumkins, Sonic Youth, and many others. He is currently working on a series of posters for New Networks in which he uses illustrations, collaging, and brainstorms with the sounds of words and what they mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ulmtDoC6E

marasigan - Rudy VanderLans (emigre)

This is an interview I found on How Magazine's website. It's a few years old, but still a great interview. The interview is about VanderLans' involvement and hard work with Emigre Magazine, which was primarily self-published. It's very interesting, especially when he explains how the first few issues came together.

Something I couldn't figure out: The article is dated 2008, after Emigre's last issue was published in 2005, but the entire interview seems to be conducted as if the zine is still being produced.

http://www.howdesign.com/article/emigre

Brown, Gabriel Solomons

"As both a practicing graphic designer and senior lecturer at the Bristol School of Creative Arts, I have over 10 years experience in the industry.
With a growing roster of local, national and international clients, I constantly aim to create professional, appropriate and unique solutions to every new challenge presented.
Alongside working with clients, I have been responsible for developing a number of trade publications that cover areas of film, design, photography and architecture - all of which aim to further our understanding of collaborative practice and explore the wider influence of creativity in society." - taken from About page on www.gabrielsolomons.com/

Carolino, Jhonen Vasquez

Jhonen Vasquez is a comic book artist that eventually got the attention of Nickelodeon to do a show called Invader Zim. After a very brief run, Nick pulled the plug on the show because the content was not fitting for the young viewership.

This interview talks about the conflict of designer versus client (the network).

[interview link]


I love his comics (& show) so much so that I got one of his characters as a tattoo on my arm.

OLESEN, Matteo Bologna

In this video, the designer Matteo Bologna, from Mucca Design, gives his thoughts about his experience in the design industry.

Clare, Deborah Sussman

This interview is with and Deborah Sussman. She creates different environmental designs, for different companies like Hasbro and Disney World, along with others.

Segue Magazine Feature: Deborah Sussman from Ollie on Vimeo.

Cook, Ellen Lupton

I found an interview with Ellen Lupton a graphic designer, currator, artist, educator and writer. She is best known by her recent book Thinking With Type. She believes that type is an expression of language and art. She is a fan of Martin Majoor & Lucas de Groot.

http://ilovetypography.com/2008/01/10/type-faces-ellen-lupton-interview/

GARCIA, Paul Rand

Here is an interview from 1991 with interviewer and graphic designer Miggs Burroughs (Miggs B) sitting down with design genius (and inspiration) Paul Rand. In the videos, he discusses his simple, honest approach to design and the philosophy behind his work. I found the second video quite interesting as he reminisced about his presentations with UPS and ABC. A modest guy.

Interview

Webber- Designer Interview

Milton Glaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0VPVbFY4Kg

In this interview Glaser talks about his career and how he got started. He also talks about his role as a graphic designer and how it relates to art and culture.
Some of those examples include socially relevant messages such as "Oil/War" and "No CEO left behind" on buttons. Glaser also discusses why he likes teaching graphic design. He places emphasis on learning the creative processes that go into teaching graphic design. He best known for his "I heart NY" logos and the previous DC comics bullet logo.

Perry- Interview with Designer

Brian Hoff is an independent graphic designer living in Philadelphia. He specializes in branding, logo, and website design. His process starts out with pen and paper and he works through thumbnails just as we do. He believes that a great design comes from typography and having a relevant typeface to compliment a mark is key.

Interview

Switzer, Rob Janoff

Interview

Rob Janoff designed the Apple logo that has evolved over the years.

Wilson, Neville Brody

Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. Inspired by the early puck rock era, he started designing record covers, and became well known through his work as Art Director for The Face magazine when it was first published in 1980. He was one of the founding members of Font works in London and designed a number of typefaces for them.

Animated Short - Logorama

This is not assignment related.
A 2010 Oscar-nominated short with tons & tons of famous logos. Very cool.

http://www.logorama-themovie.com/

Babson, Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner is a graphic artist who to me seems very gloomy and simplified. He detests Helvetica for the fact that it is authoritative. He prefers to use Frankling Gothic condensed and his art (design) is mainly typographic wall installations.

http://www.hillmancurtis.com/index.php?/film/watch/lawrence_weiner/

FELDER, interview with Kris Sowersby

This is an interview from ilovetypography.com with Kris Sowersby. He's a designer in New Zealand and designed the sans serif typeface National and the serif typeface Feijoa. He also took part in the creation of Meta Serif.

Here's the interview

and here's the link to his site

Thomas - Massimo Vignelli and the 1972 NYC subway map

Wonderful Italian designer Massimo Vignelli designed the iconic 1972 New York subway map. In this interview, he speaks of the simplicity of his design, as well as the problems people encountered with his map. He then covers ways he could have improved his map. Vignelli works firmly in a Modernist vein, focusing on simplicity using geometric shapes. I first became acquainted with him when I saw this amazing calendar (it's about four by five feet!), which typically sells out before a new year even begins!

Here is a link to an interview with Peter Saville. Peter Saville is best known as the house designer for Factory Records, home to, most famously, Joy Division and New Order. He alone was allowed to create the look and feel to this defining record label. What a gig. In the interview, he talks about making his work personal and interesting to himself, and what it takes to creatively get from A to B.

Ann Morris - Designer James Victore video

This is an interview with Graphic Designer James Victore, who's work makes statements about social injustice. He describes graphic design as "a big f-in club with spikes in it". What I like about this interview is that it shows the power of the messages sent through design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3pXEdvl9xA

West - Ray Larabie

Designer name: Ray Larabie
Company: Typodermic Fonts

http://new.myfonts.com/newletters/cc/
Online newsletter called MyFonts under Creative Characters The Faces behind the fonts.
This is an in-depth interview going from his introduction to type at an early age of five and chronicles his life's work to date. Ray Larabie is a Canadian Font Designer who now lives in Nagoya, Japan with his wife.

Lee - Chris Le

Designer: Chris Le

Company: C-LE Design Studios

I chose this particular person and their interview because he is a very young designer that became main stream quickly. He started working with main stream artist right out of High School and is becoming a major name in Hip Hop graphics. I chose this person because he is doing what I want to do now and I'm using his progress as a means of motivation for me. I know where I need to be and the fact that we are close in age makes me want to achieve greater heights quicker. This makes me want to work on a tutorial right now. LOL!

Interview

Work

James Klingaman - Paul Rand Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bA1LdQknbk

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT. He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design.

Simmons, Milton Glaser

One of the most influential and respected 20th century designers. View the clip for some inspiration.

Dix- Fedex interview

one of my favorite blogs interviewed Lindon Leader of Leader Creative. He created the Fedex logo. http://www.thesneeze.com/secrets-of-the-fedex-logo/ in this interview Leader talks about the hidden arrow between the e and the x in FedEx. He walks you through his creative process and how he had to alter the letter forms to create a clearer arrow.

Blog Assignment Week #4: Designer Interview

BLOG ASSIGNMENT Week 4: Designer Interview
The internet has several sources to hear about design straight from the designer themselves. In this blog assignment find an interview with a designer and post up the link or video.

Remember to place your last name on the title and interviewee. Included in your post: Designer name/Company and synopsis of interview. The synopsis should be a brief paragraph about the interview. Add the labels "designer interview" & "class time". Remember to add a comma between the words. If the labels are not present you will not receive credit. The labels are meant for organization. If post are not labeled they will get lost in the blog. Therefore...no labels...no grade!! To double check your labeling you should be able to find your post when you select the "class time" on the right and when you select "designer interview". If it doesn't show up you did it wrong.

DUE by Friday, February 12th @ 5pm

Well I think it explains itself why I picked this one, but it didnt have the name of the artest or any other information on it