Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Logos That I dislike

these are some of the logos that I really dislike/hate because they do not represent their meaning clearly

the first one is about women cloths, however, it is very offensive because of the use of the cats image.

Also, if you saw this logo for the first time you would think that this is for cats not women.

for the second, since there are no spaces between the words people might read this as "kid sex change"

other than "kids exchange" which is actually a kids exchange school program.

for the last, I simply don't understand the meaning for this logo

Monday, October 15, 2012

Ross Bleckner

The Oceans 1984

Bleckner used Oil, Wax, and Canvas to draw this painting in 1984

Ross Bleckner

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William Gibson (Neuromancer) 1984

William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer envisions cyberspace as

a vast ethereal grid. Gibson's data cowboy leaves behind the "meat"

of his body and drifts off into a "transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity."

The image of this grid is projected on an internal surface of the mind, bound by no screen or window

Typography book (1989)

The book called: THE TELEPHONE BOOK: TECHNOLOGY, SCHIZOPHRENIA, ELECTRIC SPEECH.

Date: 1989

Designer: Richard Eckersley

Author: Avital Ronell

Compositor: Michael Jensen

Photography: Dan Meyers

The book is about a philosophical study of writing as a material technology, uses typography to emphasize the rhetorical arguments of the text.

Typography (1980's)

In the mid-1980's personal computers and low-resolution printers put the tools of typography in

the hands of a broader public. In 1985 Zuzana Licko began designing typefaces that exploited the

rough grain of early desktop systems.

Zuzana and her husband, Rudy Vanderlans, cofounders of Emigre Fonts and Emigre magazine, called themselves the "new primitives," pioneers of a technological dawn.

Zuzana Licko & Rudy Vanderlans

Picasso & Museum of Modern Art

Picasso & Museum of Modern Art (1980's)

A Retrospective exhibition was hold at the Museum of Modern Art in New York city; the museum displayed the largest and the most complete Pablo Picasso exhibition ever held in the United State.

A press release was made to advertise this Exhibition

Cabbage Patch Kids is a line of dolls created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978. It was originally called "Little People". The original dolls were all cloth and sold at local craft shows, then later at Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia. The doll brand went on to become one of the most popular toyfads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in America.

The dolls attracted the attention of toy manufacturer Coleco, who began mass-production in 1982.[7] The Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids had large, round vinyl heads, (originally of a different, hard plastic), and soft fabric bodies, and were produced from 1982 to 1989, many at a factory in Amsterdam, New York. After Coleco went bankrupt, the Cabbage Patch Kids were later mass produced by other companies, including Hasbro, Mattel, Toys R Us, and currently Play Along. Mattel started producing them after canceling production of My Child dolls.

these are some picture of the dolls:

David Carson

David Carson in the 80's

David Carson is a Graphic Designer.

He was a teacher in Torry Pines high school from 1983 to 1987.

However, he started his experiment with graphic design in 1983.

In late 1980's Carson has developed his own signature style.

Also he won many awards on the period of 1989 to 2004; he won over 170 awards for his graphic design work