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I used to think that graphic design was just page layouts, posters, flyer's etc. It all seemed fairly boring and mundane.

I started to look at different types of graphic art and wider range of graphic designers, such as Jasper Goodall. but still my grasp on design was quite small.







Since starting the course i have started to document websites and designers, to me this is the essence of graphic design.

Havec.fr



Parra




MSMD



Steve Harrington





ilovedust.com

Havec Design

Obviously a French designer, as all the website is in French as well. His stuff is really cool, i stumbles across it in a book called ''Latex 4 Fun''. They basically drew on a load of balloons and made a book out of it. But this stuff stuk out like a sore thumb to me.

www.havec.fr

Mine

These are some trippy psychedelic picture from my 1964 calender. the colours aren't like this but still look pretty cool.

Christopher Norris

This guy is an artist/illustrator for books, magazines etc. He also puts on self titled art shows and stuff. His work id weird, often with an odd message behind it. But his careful mix between art and type go well, as it is all hand rendered and hardly anything digitally based. If you find some digital work it is rare. I like it but this is only how i would want to mock up my ideas, never produce final things like this.

Clever but naughty

This is a a bit stupid but fucking clever. I guess.

Jasper Goodall

Some new and exciting work from Jasper Goodall, but only a sneak peak. Bastards teasing us. Looks like a lot of photo manipulation.

Steve Harrington

I stumbled across this guy on a t-shirt website (www.threadless.com). He incorporates type and image together. Mainly using screen prints.

David Foldvari

This is an illustrator. I think his style is simplistic but unique. He has it down to a t and i don't think it will really change. When he uses bits of type in his illustrations, it makes the whole thing com to life and make sense.

Dan Mumford

I don't really like this guys work at all, but this piece on his website caught my eye. The type bodes so well with the illustration, i think that the composition is perfect.

Alex Trochut

This guy believes that more is more and that he practices type and illustration. He doesn't choose one over the other though, he mixes them together. This is a rolling stones cover, its fucking ace.

Körner Union

Körner Union

Stay In Bed All Day Doing Nothing

Founded in 1999, Ecole students Sami Benhadj, Tarik Hayward and Guy Meldem formed Körner Union, a mould of shared ideas and tools aiming to promote and enhance the development of their individual production as well as create collective works.

Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Körner Union’s work includes a range of diverse work including design, drawing, photography and film and have exhibited work in Europe, United Stated, Canada and Japan. Their clients include Another Magazine, The Mill, New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Orange France, Siemens, Swatch, Vitra, Wallpaper and 2K T-shirts.

I also like the style of this one because it looks kind of old fashioned and Bauhaus in some respects, which gives it a retro, sort of vintage feel to it.

Joseph Burrin + Tom Crabtree

April 2008

Joe Burrin and Tom Crabtree

Make Records

Joseph Burrin is a Graphic Designer who lives in London and works between London, Glasgow & New York. Joe was a partner in the design trio BCD (Big Corporate Disco) for 6 years & then in 2003 went onto work with Spin (where he meet Tom) and is presently a Senior Creative at Third Eye Design.

Tom Crabtree is a Graphic Designer living and working in San Francisco. After working for MadeThought and Spin for several years in London, Tom moved to California in 2006 to work as an Art Director for Apple.

This is Joe & Tom’s first (of many) trans-Atlantic collaborations.

I like this style because it is mega simple, but looks amazing. The composition is perfect and it looks hand done even though it is digital at the end.

Mine

The colours have messed up and look pretty gnarly but you get the idea of one of the posters.

Siggi Eggertsson

This is a kind of new graphic designer, i think she's Japanese. This is type mixed with illustration as well. Not really the same principle as she has illustrated the actual type, but something i would like to try.

Parra

Same principle as mine as again the type is all the same width set type.

Geneveive Gaukler

This is mixed type with illustartion, in a different way to me, but the same principle.

Jody Barton

This peice of type kind of informed my ideas in the way that they are all set the the same width.

Si Scott

The secret of drawing. Pretty fucking unbelievable. I didn't know it was created first by hand.

Si Scott

These pieces are amazing and meticulous. I love the way that he incorporates illustration and typography together to make simple but brilliant pieces. I would love to be able to work like this and learn how to do it to inform future designs.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion animation, its amaing, must have taken days and days.