Former Art Center student and recent AIGA/LA Fellow John Coy name checks Doyald Young and Lou Danziger in my latest imPrint interview. He discusses the people who’ve influenced his career, including Robert Rauschenberg (see below).
You can read the story and view more of John’s work at Print magazine’s Imprint site.
This really fun project put together by Elliott Scott and Christopher Doyle seems especially pertinent to the students out there, learning to be original.
“THIS YEAR I WILL TRY NOT TO was born out of frustration, complacency and laziness. Most designers are seduced by design trends. They’re easy to appropriate, and even easier to imitate. The [...]
(Enrique Ortega’s FUV: a conceptual exploration of architecture)
Annie Huang’s Friday afternoon Editorial class focuses on publication design and creating strong but succinct narratives through a combination of text and imagery. “The goal of assignment,” Graphics student Frank Lionetti describes, “was to create your own magazine or redesign an existing magazine. The finished magazine contained three [...]
“Interiors” Architectural News, Chermayeff & Geismar, 1964
Way back in first term–knee high to a grasshopper as I was–we were assigned in Communication Design 1 to make a magazine cover for Architectural News using the idea of “fused metaphors.” We were told to make lists of each of the things to be represented (in our case [...]
Just wanted to let everyone know that orders are now being taken for Issue #3 of It’s Nice That. I bought Issue #2 a while back and really enjoyed the in depth interviews and unique artwork that you get along with the publication. Artwork supplied with this issue if purchased before March 31st features a [...]
So last week, we looked at the experimental and conceptually intelligent publication _Quarterly. While their work was new to my eyes, apparently _Quarterly is closer to home than I first believed. I’m proud to say that one of the creators of _Quarterly is currently taking classes at Art Center. Excited to learn more about the [...]
Let’s face it, we’re all a sucker for a good zine. Especially, when the there is some interesting, illustrative accompaniment. Here are some zines that I just received from _ Quarterly, which I really enjoyed. _ Quarterly is an experimental publication focused on the visual and literary arts. Each issue follows a different theme [...]
Our first spotlighted artist is designer Chaz Maviyane-Davis of Harare, Zimbabwe. Davis helped start the Maviyane Project in 1980 after the end of the guerrilla war for Zimbabwe independence. The Maviyane Project aimed to create a new graphic language that would not only serve the communication needs of a new modernized society, but which would [...]