Saturday, December 14, 2013

Graphic designer review - Julian House, Neville Brody, Shigeo Fukuda


Julian House

Julian is a Graphic Designer, musician, and co-owner of Ghost Box Music record label. House is most commonly known for his album cover designs for music groups, Oasis, The Prodigy and Razorlight. His art usually uses a collage base format that draws heavily on record sleeve design and comic book art. His art has a pulp influence and other artist and writers Peter Saville, Saul Bass and Max Ernst to William S. Burroughs, Bryon Gysin, H. P. Lovecraft, and Lewis Carroll.  House releases music under the alias The Focus Group on the label Ghost Box Music, which he is co-founder of with Jim Jupp.







Neville Brody


Neville is an English graphic Designer, Typographer, and Album designer. He has founded the company for research studios and Fontworks. He has recently been appointed the new head of the Communication Art & Design department at the Royal College of Art. During the late 70’s Brody attended College as was recognized for his work until his fondness of Punk Rock almost had him expelled from school for putting the Queen of England head sideways on a stamp design. In spite of the postage stamp episode, Brody was not only motivated by the energies of punk. His first-year thesis had been based around a comparison between Dadaism and pop art. Initially working in record cover design, Brody made his name largely popular through his revolutionary work as Art Director for The Face magazine when it was first published in 1980. Brody has pushed the boundaries of visual communication in all media through his experimental and challenging work, and continues to extend the visual languages we use through his exploratory creative expression.






Shigeo Fukuda

Shigeo was a Japanese sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who specialized in optical illusions. Shigeo was born in japan and he studied the Swiss style of graphic design at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. His commercial work included his creation of the official poster for the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka. A 1980 poster created for Amnesty International features a clenched fist interwoven with barbed wire, with the letter "S" in the word "Amnesty" at the top of the poster formed from a linked shackle. In 1987, Fukuda was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in New York City, which described him as "Japan's consummate visual communicator", making him the first Japanese designer chosen for this recognition.

 

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