unique designers
Designers have a strong desire to develop their own unique style which enables them to stand out from their own crowd.
Many designers are challenging traditional notions of beauty with provocative work that expresses radical ideas and expresses their own identity. That's why we can compare between 2 graphic designers coming from different backgrounds but still coming up with a range of creative designs.
One is a Lebanese designer from my native country called Tarek Atrissi who is born in Beirut and he worked and studied in Lebanon, The Netherlands, Qatar, Dubai and the United States.
Another designer is Alan Fletcher, born in Nairobi, Kenya. Alan moved to England at 5 and he founded the design firm Fletcher/forbes/gill with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill in 1962. He died from cancer.
Alan Fletcher
“I’d sooner do the same on Monday
or Wednesday as I do on a Saturday
or Sunday. I don’t divide my life
between labor and pleasure.”
I like to reduce everything to its
absolute essence because that is a
way to avoid getting trapped in a style.”
Tarek Atrissi
"Think Big with design"
"Design is a powerful tool"
Graphic design is a journey that has no end .
Many designers are challenging traditional notions of beauty with provocative work that expresses radical ideas and expresses their own identity. That's why we can compare between 2 graphic designers coming from different backgrounds but still coming up with a range of creative designs.
One is a Lebanese designer from my native country called Tarek Atrissi who is born in Beirut and he worked and studied in Lebanon, The Netherlands, Qatar, Dubai and the United States.
Another designer is Alan Fletcher, born in Nairobi, Kenya. Alan moved to England at 5 and he founded the design firm Fletcher/forbes/gill with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill in 1962. He died from cancer.
Alan Fletcher
“I’d sooner do the same on Monday
or Wednesday as I do on a Saturday
or Sunday. I don’t divide my life
between labor and pleasure.”
I like to reduce everything to its
absolute essence because that is a
way to avoid getting trapped in a style.”
Fletcher — a modest man who would greet accolades with an air of faint surprise — was awarded the Prince Philip Prize for Designer of the Year; he was elected to the Hall of Fame of the American Art Directors' Club and as a senior fellow of the Royal College of Art. His work was shown at exhibitions around the world. In November the Design Museum is staging a a show entitled Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years of Graphic Work ( I am going there)
Alan Fletcher is survived by his wife, Paola, and their daughter.
Tarek Atrissi
"Think Big with design""Design is a powerful tool"
Graphic design is a journey that has no end .
Comments
There were some interesting articles after Alan Fletcher's death, in Eye Magazine and Design Week. Also exhibition.
Can you post your research observation and response for this week.
See you Friday
Nothing much seems to be happening, I was looking forward to seeing some great progress.
This blog will be marked as part of your Design Research Module which will conclude with a final written report, which will also be marked.
This blog needs to reflect, practise, feedback, sessions and visual work development! please post and update.
Your tasks for the first 3 sessions have been to:
Task 1: set up blog, post an example of 2 design projects you are interested in. One from your native home and one british designer. You may want to spend some time looking in journals to get a current design flvour and culture in this country.
Task 2: Take an aspect of your chosen RSA brief and show how one idea might be developed through a research process or series of questions.
This might look more like a time line
Task 3: Make contact with 2 organisations, individuals or charities who you may collaborate or offer support or expertise for your chosen RSA project.
Make a posting each day which shows how your research map has developed durring this week. 7 postings intotal. Please add coments and feedback to the visuals.
I hope this clarifies
See you Friday,
Amanda