Posts Tagged ‘legacy’
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Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers
- July 29th, 2011
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Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sherman’s Exploitation. Same old Rastafarian colors… Some guy with dreads… A title that refers ...
Read more...The Heritage Of Berlin Street Art And Graffiti Scene
- July 13th, 2011
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Art critic Emilie Trice has called Berlin “the graffiti Mecca of the urban art world.” While few people would argue with her, the Berlin street scene is not as radical as her statement suggests. Street art in Berlin is a big industry. It’s not exactly legal, but the city’s title ...
Read more...The Story Of Scandinavian Design: Combining Function and Aesthetics
- June 13th, 2011
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For a long time, art has been heavily influenced by the social and political landscape. Searching through history, we find that while the social views of a certain period may no longer be relevant, the art and design of that time often are. Designers today constantly draw inspiration from history, ...
Read more...We Can Do Better: The Overlooked Importance of Professional Journalism
- January 28th, 2011
- 51 Comments
The Web is a galaxy of information that is rapidly expanding. Blogs and online magazines are helping shape the future of this Information Age that we live in. Those of us who read, write and design blogs and online magazines possess extraordinary power and potential. How will we choose to ...
Read more...The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History
- October 4th, 2010
- 78 Comments
Have you ever thought of what makes you remember a certain movie or TV show? Of course, it’s the story being told, you’ll say. But what about movies such as Goldfinger, Seven and Snatch? What’s the first thing that comes to mind? We are pretty sure their opening title sequences ...
Read more...What Do We Really Mean By Art?
- July 23rd, 2010
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Mark Rothko, an American artist who described himself as an “abstract painter”, once said that he was not the kind of person interested in the relationship of form, color or similars. He didn’t define himself as an abstractionist, but rather as a person interested only in expressing basic human emotions such ...
Read more...The Evolution of The Logo
- July 6th, 2010
- 66 Comments
Logo design has been a controversial subject in the design press lately. One branding professional recently claimed that logo design is not that hard to do and another said that logos are dead; some rebutted while others concurred. Why all the fuss? We live in a Brand Era, where branding is ...
Read more...The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy, Part 2
- June 22nd, 2010
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The beauty of writing systems is that each has something unique from which to draw inspiration. Two weeks ago, in the first part of this article, we covered Arabic and East-Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) and a few Indic scripts (Devanagari, Thai and Tibetan). We are now back for ...
Read more...100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- June 13th, 2010
- 120 Comments
Propaganda is most well known in the form of war posters. But at its core, it is a mode of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position, and that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Although propaganda is often used to manipulate ...
Read more...The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World
- May 18th, 2010
- 236 Comments
The beauty of typography has no borders. While most of us work with the familiar Latin alphabet, international projects usually require quite extensive knowledge about less familiar writing systems from around the world. The aesthetics and structure of such designs can be strongly related to the shape and legibility of ...
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