ROXY: 1980's "The Face" - Neville Brody

From 1981 to 1986 Neville Brody was art director of the magazine "The Face", for which he designed a distinctive typographical appearance that inspired magazine designers and other designers worldwide

Neville Brody was a typographer, graphic designer and art director. Brody is perhaps the best known graphic artist of his generation. He uses letters and numbers in his art pieces with an anti-traditional view on art. He played at the margins of visual language and used it to launch a revolution in typeface design.

Brody drew freely to create his visually exciting layouts and typography on avant-garde artistic ideas of the 1920s and 1930s such as those of De Stijl and Russian Constructivism. Far removed from contemporary editorial conventions Brody's work had a studied informality in the thoughtfulness devoted to the construction of its layouts, with blocks of texts often placed horizontally or vertically on the page, their often distinctive layouts contrasting strikingly with hand-mediated imagery and photography. Such ideas exerted a significant international impact on the appearance of magazine, advertising, and retailing design.

The contents spread from The Face's 1982 May edition.



An ad from The Face for dresses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_%28magazine%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody
http://www.art-directory.info/design/neville-brody-1957/index.shtml
http://www.answers.com/topic/neville-brody
http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com/2008/08/face-magazine-may-1982.html

3:PENNY Logo Design: Ken Cato

" His philosophy of design is dynamically holistic, providing the synergistic solutions that produce positive results."

Taken from the Cato Partners website




Ken Cato is an Australin Graphic Designer who's company,Cato Design Inc. Pty Limited, was established in Melbourne in 1970 with offices in Sydney, Perth, Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Buenos Aires and Auckland.
His work as a graphic designer has earned him an international reputation. He is represented in museums and galleries throughout the world and he has won numerous international and Australian design awards. Cato's projects range from graphic design, product design, fashion /uniform design, interior and environmental design

• Long-standing member of Alliance Graphic International and is a past AGI President
• Awarded the first Australian Honorary Doctorate of Design from Swinburne University
• Is a foundation member of the Australian Writers and Art Directors Association
• A member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts
• Is Patron of the Australian Academy of Design
• Is a long-standing member and served a period as president of Alliance Graphique Internationale

"most trademarks don't look that good on the radio"
http://quotesondesign.com/ken-cato/







"The challenge lay in respecting the heritage of the region, while simultaneously delivering the new brands as a vision for the future, which we realised through manipulation of old mosaic patterns into a modern and dynamic globe symbol."







http://www.designvic.com/Knowledge/HotTopics/KenCato.aspx

http://www.logosdesigners.com/#ken-cato

http://www.dia.org.au/content.cfm?id=179#Ken_Cato

http://www.theage.com.au/news/creative--media/the-wisdom-of--ken-cato-designer/2005/06/27/1119724551822.html

http://www.cato.com.au/#/aust/en/home

David Carson

David Carson is a graphic designer best known for his innovative magazine design and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun and Transworld Skateboarding magazine. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties.


By the late eighties he had developed his signature style, using "dirty" type and non-mainstream photographic techniques. He would later be dubbed the "father of grunge."


To the left you can see a page he designed for the Ray Gun Magazine.





Like Neville Brody, typographer and graphic designer David Carson became influential in the late 1980's and 1990s for experimental typeface designs. David Carson's designs were featured heavily in surfing and skateboarding magazines.

A tribute to other self-taught designers, David Carson broke most of the rules of design and typography, a process that was made easy with the use of desk top publishing programs, such as Pagemaker, QuarkXpress and Illustrator. He experimented with overlapping and distorted fonts and intermixed these with striking photographic images.



To view a list of Carson's book's, click here.

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_%28graphic_designer%29
http://www.designtalkboard.com/design-articles/famous-designers.php

1:Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister
Graphic designer and Typographer

"Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution."

• Born 1962 in Bregenz, Austria
• Owned a turtle when very young


• Began his design career at the age of 15 at "Alphorn", a left wing Austrian Youth magazine
• After being rejected initially, he studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna
• Designed posters for the Schauspielhaus theatre group as part of the Gruppe Gut collective
• Received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York in 1987
• Returned to Austria in 1990 for compulsory military service, serving as a conscientious objector, doing community work
• In 1991, he moved to Hong Kong to work with the advertising agency Leo Burnett

• 1993, he returned to New York to work Tibor Kalman's M&Co design firm
• He set up his own company Sagmeister Inc. in 1993
• 1994 he was nominated for a grammy award for his album cover - 'h. p. zinker mountains of madness’
• Work has included designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, OK Go, Lou Reed, Aerosmith, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner



• Sagmeister Inc. remains a small company so as to retain the freedom to choose jobs
• In 2001 released the book ‘Sagmeister (made you look) (another self-indulgent design monograph)’
• in 2005 he won a grammy award as art director of the ‘once in a lifetime’ talking heads boxed set packaging
• Currently working on typographic work ‘20 things in my life I have learned so far.’

“and 'style = fart'?
 yes I said this but I had to give up. It was the headline of 
a theory that style and stylistic questions are just hot air
and meaningless. I discovered that this is simply not true.
Through experience I found that if you have content that is
worthwhile, the proper expression of that content, in terms of
form and style is actually very important. It can be a very
useful tool to communicate that content.
I don't think that it is actually hot-air anymore.”

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sagmeister.html
18.2.2010

http://www.sagmeister.com/index.html
http://designmuseum.org/design/stefan-sagmeister
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Sagmeister
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sagmeister.html
http://www.designobserver.com/observermedia/audiofile.html?entry=11857
http://www.typotheque.com/articles/how_good_is_good
http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html

Neville Brody

Neville Brody was a typographer, graphic designer and art director. Brody is perhaps the best known graphic artist of his generation. He uses letters and numbers in his art pieces with an anti-traditional view on art. He played at the margins of visual language and used it to launch a revolution in typeface design.

Brody is also well known for being one of he first people to use a Mac computer to create his designs.

An ad Brody made for Nike

Brody first began work on record cover designs and then progressed to working as the Art Director for The Face Magazine between 1981 and 1986.

A copy of The Face magazine printed in the 1980's.

Brody has pushed the boundaries to visual communication on many different platforms of media using exploratory creative expression.

He was also partly responsible for instigating the FUSE project an influential fusion between a magazine, graphics design and typeface design

Notable fonts he helped create include the updated font for the Times newspaper, Times Modern.

Neville Brody made famous a job which, under normal circumstances, would remain obscure.

To view some of the fonts he created, click here.
To see an over view of his book "The Graphic Design Language" click here.

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/brody/