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