Thursday 5 September 2013

Inspiration and quote comes from research I've done about Dieter Rams. I found his designes and ideas fascinated I became even more impressed when found out that Apple has been inspired by his work as well.


Final design



Woman's figure is the biggest inspiration for me and I love using it in my works. The idea behind this sketch is that woman's natural beauty is much better than make up. Left side is looking natural weather her right is leaking with overused make up. On the bottom I've got text saying "Good design is as little design as possible" using females face as sample I referring to design as well that some design works just got to many things going on and it becomes mess. 



This is one of my favourite design style which I could refer to Vorticisim. I like complexity in design it makes my eyes go around it and almost explore it which I always find fascinating. 



This idea comes from David Carson where he has broken all the grid rules. I don't mind short quotes with this type of writing but recently I have discovered a full paragraph of important information which has been written in this style. It made me really annoyed I wanted to find out information about event quickly but text like this could me keep reading for an hour which I didn't want at all. I don't think this style should be used in long sentences  because eventually viewer will loose interested in a text if it will not be readable and he want's to get quick information.


Sligthly more complexed looking design. I refereed the centre circle to iPhone button as an idea that design has to be functional effective and easy to use. 



Idea #1



Lot of organized folders means that design must be organized, neat and well thought 

My own sample of using negative space 



Using negative space in Graphic Design is something I discovered just recently but it really got my attention and willing to create some work using this style 



Wednesday 4 September 2013

New iOS flat design inspired lot of design works 


Simplicity is beautiful and effective 




Passion for complicated and expressive design always inspires me 



Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.

Rams began his career at Wiesbaden School of Art in 1974. He graduated with honours in 1953 after which he began working for Frankfurt based architect Otto Apel. In 1955 he had a chance to be recruited to Braun as an architect and interior designer. In addition in 1961, he became the Chief Design Officer at Braun until 1995.
By producing electronic gadgets that were remarkable in their austere aesthetic and user friendlies  Rams made Braun a household name in 1950s. He is considered to be on of the most influential industrial designer of the 20th century. 

Interesting video about Dieter Rams works and carrier: 





Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. From 1985-2010, Mau was the creative director of Bruce Mau Design , and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries. In 2010 Mau went on to establish The Massive Change Network in Chicago.

You can follow him on Behance to find more of his work also official website http://www.brucemaudesign.com/4817/work

Some of his work which I found inspiring 





Tuesday 3 September 2013

Ken Garland

Ken Garland is notable as a British graphic designer, author and game designer. Garland established Ken Garland Associates in 1962.
Garland studied design at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts in the early 1950s 

...we have reached a saturation point at which the high pitched scream of consumer selling is no more than sheer noise. We think that there are other things more worth using our skill and experience on. There are signs for streets and buildings, books and periodicals, catalogues, instructional manuals, industrial photography, educational aids, films, television features, scientific and industrial publications and all the other media through which we promote our trade, our education, our culture and our greater awareness of the world. ...”

The manifesto was signed by 21 others. In January 1964, the manifesto was reprinted by Tony Benn in his column in The Guardian

Artworks that inspires me: 







Link to his website for more work: http://www.kengarland.co.uk/

Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern

https://vimeo.com/1874188

DADA

Dadaisim was an art launched in Europen in the early 20th century many claim that Dada began in Switzerland in 1916. Dada's believes were againts the horrors of World War I movement was begun by group of artist and poets. They rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. Them movement primarly involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theater, and graphic design, and concetrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailings standards in art through anti-art cultural works.

Artworks:






Futurism

Futurism was and art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinneti in 1909. On 20th February he published his Manifesto to Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper "Le Figaro" . It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology  youth and violence and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city. Futurusim practise been seen in such creative fields like paintings, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, urban design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.

Artworks: 






Key figures of Fururism movement: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo CarrĂ , Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, Antonio Sant’Elia, Bruno Munari and Luigi Russolo,
Russian artist: Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Igor Severyanin, David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Portuguess artist: Almada Negreiros

A film which been heavily inspired by the Futurism 



Facts about Vorticism

Vorticism 

Vorticim, was British artistic movement it attempted to relate art to industrialization. It opposed 19th-century sentimentality and extolled the energy of machine and machine made products, and its promoted something of a cult of sheer violence. In the visual arts, Vorticist composition were abstract and sharp-planed showing the influence of Cubisim and Futurisim. 
  
  1. Vorticism was British art and poetry movement of early 20th century 
  2. Movement was annonced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST 
  3. Founded by Wyndham Lewis 
  4. Vorticism was inspired by: Cubisim and Futurisim 
  5. The name Vorticisim was given by Ezra Pound in 1913 

Artist of Vorticism: Richard Aldington, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Lawrence Atkinson, Jessica Dismorr, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Cuthbert Hamilton, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Edward Wadsworth

Artworks: 
 











BBC Documentary about Wyndham Lewis