Monday, April 14, 2008

Tristan Tzara



Tristan Tzara was a Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known best for his manifestos. He was a collaborator with Marcel Janco. It is speculated that the word "Dada" comes from the Romanian "Yes, yes" and is thus originated from Tzara and Janco's contributions. It is more commonly believed Tzara picked a random word out of a French dictionary and got "Dada", a child's word for a hobby horse

Herbert Bayer




Herbert Bayer was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect.
Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthhammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising.
In the spirit of reductive minimalism, Bayer developed a crisp visual style and adopted use of all-lowercase, sans serif typefaces for most Bauhaus publications. Bayer is one of several typographers of the period including Kurt Schwitters and Jan Tschichold who experimented with the creation of a simplified more phonetic-based alphabet. Bayer designed the 1925 geometric sans-serif typeface, universal, now issued in digital form as Architype Bayer which bears comparison with the stylistically related typeface Architype Schwitters.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

US type



This is U.S. type. It is used in high-way signs among other things. It is a form of typography

scribble



This is childlike type. It is more crude, more informal, and looks more rushed then any other kind of type. It usual looks like a 5 year old just picked up a pen to spell a word he or she just learned.

fatigued type




This is fatigued type. It 's fatigued because it is faded which makes it hard to read. That's whats happen to any kind of writing if it isn't constantly or properly kept up.

Greeting Cards



Greeting cards are used to display a certain emotion and even a since of humor. It contains kind words of affection for a particular occasion or just to say hey for no reason at all

Monday, March 10, 2008

graphic design

This is my second year in graphic design. Needless to say I'm in computer graphics 2. It has been a very intrigueing experience so far. Although it is not what I expected. I am planning to major in animation in college so it reqiures som ability to do graphic design . I chooise this course because I figured it would give an preview of what my major would be like, and it has. I have to admit that its not easy.