Category: 3: Principles

African Graphic Design

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 26, 2017

There is no Wikipedia on African Graphic Design!!! A history of African art (not graphic design contrary to the title) is: http://guity-novin.blogspot.nl/2010/03/history-of-graphic-design-african-art.html And interesting websites with artists are: http://africandigitalart.com/tag/william-santiago/ http://africandigitalart.com/category/artist/ Indaba: http://www.designindaba.com A Google search for African typefaces tend to be rather kitsch zebras and unusable. Not the typefaces more commonly used in Africa – […]

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Working with Images

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 18, 2017

NOTE: I am planning to do a lot more here using also work on Photobooks and Manuals I do for work. Linked to the discussion on grids and layout. Linking back also to the work on Fanzines in Part 1. The type of book will in many respects determine the sort of images and also […]

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Typography

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 18, 2017

What is Typography? Typography (Greek: typos “form”, graphein “to write”) is: the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type and arranging that type in physical or digital form to make written language most appealing to learning and recognition. Many books on typography take a narrow Western perspective looking, apart from an overview of […]

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International Design Approaches

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 18, 2017

Design Timelines Designhistory.org (Western design only) 33 famous graphic design companies from around the globe For cross-cultural Street Art from my Illustration course see my post on that blog: Street Art African graphic design See Post on African design Middle East and Africa https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/100-artworks-from-the-top-20-designers-in-the-middle-east-and-africa–psd-5036 Kenya NGO Design Uses flags and colours in shape of a country […]

Tags Africa, colour, global design, Greece, Italy, Japan, Typefaces

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Typeface Design

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 18, 2017

Tags Typefaces

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International Swiss Style

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 18, 2017

Overview Experimental Jetset Lars Muller Norm Wim Crouwel edited from Wikipedia International Topographic Style The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style that emerged in Russia, the Netherlands and Germany in the 1920s and developed by designers in Switzerland during the 1950s. The International Typographic Style has […]

Tags modernism

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Good Typography

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 17, 2017

General overviews of standard ‘rules’ Chris Do from Futur Dynamic Design Shawn Barry

Tags Dynamic design, modernism, Swiss International Style

3: Principles Typography

James Goggin

Post author By lindamayoux
Post date May 16, 2017

Practice website archive It’s Nice That James Goggin is a Chicago-based British and/or Australian art director and graphic designer from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Auckland, and Arnhem. Together with partner Shan James, he runs a design practice named Practise working with clients across Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North America. James has taught at […]