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  • design legends you should know #4 David Carson

    design legends you should know #4 David Carson

    Rulebreaker, Father of Grunge Typography, prolific surfer. All things that aptly describe David Carson.

    Carson started out as a high school teacher in Oregon, where he caught wind of a graphic design summer program at University of Arizona. Soon after he was off to Switzerland to another summer program under the instruction of instructor Hans-Rudolf Lutz. He began working at various magazines such as, Transworld Skateboarding, Beach Culture, and Surfer. In the early 90s, he landed at an alternative music magazine, Ray Gun, and really developed his style. Working at Ray Gun in the peak grunge era, Carson was able to lean into it and make it his own. After three years, Carson left Ray Gun in pursuit of his own design business.

    What makes David Carson so unique is his fresh perspective on design. He tosses out the traditional design rules and forges his own. This take on design is what gives him his edge and personality. That’s essentially his brand.

    Some of his work

    poster for his 2014 AIGA lecture (not my pic)
    dvd navigation design for Nine Inch Nails (not my pic)
    obama election design from 2009 (not my pic)

    A really great interview article to better understand Carson and his philosophies: click here!

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  • design legends you should know #3 Henri Privat-Livemont

    design legends you should know #3 Henri Privat-Livemont

    Another one of Privat’s works that advertises light fittings

    Let me take you way back to the 1890s, when minimalism is out and fanciful Art Nouveau is in. My first exposure to this style was seeing one of my mom’s favorite prints in her room, Absinthe Robette.

    The iconic Absinthe Robette by Henri Privat-Livemont

    What is Art Nouveau?

    New art, or Art Nouveau was a popular art movement from around the 1890s to the start of WW1. It mimicked aspects of nature with its curving, free-flowing, organic feel. It encompassed paintings, furniture, architecture, patterns, and art. It was the precursor to the more modern movements, such as Art Deco, that focused on sleek lines and eliminated excessive decoration.

    Henri Privat-Livemont

    Henri was born in 1861, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium. At age 12, he studied at École des Arts Decoratifs in Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Belgium under Louis Hendrickx. Then, he moved to Paris in the 1880s to work with the studios of Lemaire, Lavastre & Duvignaud to learn interior decorating. Henri was initially an interior decorator for very wealthy families. Although most famous for his iconic posters, it happened by chance. He won a local poster competition around 1889 and decided to lean more into them. With new economic demands, the need for poster advertisements increased and Privat-Livemont rode the wave. Some prominent works of his include the aforementioned Absinthe Robette and the 1897 Exposition Internationale (a World’s Fair held in Belgium) poster. He kept himself busy teaching  ‘Ornament, Figure and Ornamental Composition’ at the Josephat School for Drawing and Crafts from 1891-1935. After the decline of poster art he kept interior decorating, oil painting, and photography.

    Non-poster-related work

    1 of 4 tile panels designed by Privat-Livemont for the Grande Maison de Blanc in Brussels, Belgium
    stained glass window designed by Privat-Livemont and made by  Raphaël Évaldre for the Hotel Saintenoy in Brussels, Belgium

    For more info I highly suggest checking out this blog post! It goes more into depth on Privat-Livemont as well as his rival Alphonse Mucha.

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    Is there anything I missed? Have you heard of this legendary Belgian designer? Let me know below.

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  • design legends you should know #1 Susan Kare

    In school they teach you about influential people, founding fathers, famous artist, etc. But in college, we haven’t discussed important graphic designers. So I’ve taken it upon myself to educate myself and ya’ll while I’m at it.

    Today’s design star is Susan Kare

    So who is Susan Kare, the “woman who gave the Macintosh a smile”?

    Susan Kare is most known for her work at Apple. She got her start there in 1983 as a Macintosh Artist. Despite not knowing anything about computer graphics and typefaces, she educated herself at the local library and aced the interview.

    At Apple, Kare was in charge of designing icons and typefaces for the Mac operating system. She worked with graph paper to design some of Apple’s most iconic icons such as the ticking bomb for system error, trash can, the pointed arrow cursor and more.

    Because her icon designs were universal and friendly, they encouraged technology-illiterate users to try out computers.

    Susan Kare’s icon designs, courtesy of kareprints.com

    She also designed fonts, contributed to the Mac rollout campaign, and demonstrated the capabilities of the MacPaint application.

    Kare went on to create her own design firm, Susan Kare LLP, in 1989. Her design skills were used at companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, and even Pinterest.

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    Have you heard of Susan Kare? Are there any graphic designers I should look into next? Let me know 🙂

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