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Paul Rand

Paul Rand was a well known American Graphic Designer. He was best known for his corporate designs. He went to Parsons School of Design, Pratt and the Art Student Design League. He was one of the originators of the Swiss style of Graphic Design. I found it very fasinating how he taught Design at Yale University in new Haven for a few years. He has designed many posters and corporate identies, including the logos of IBM, UPS, and ABC. In 1972 he was inducted into the New York Art directors club hall of fame!! I found it so amazing how he was so close to Albertus and he was even buried in Cnnecticut after his tragic death in 1996 from cancer. He has made such an impact on our nation with his logos and designs, I feel he was truly an iconic designer of his time!

David Carson

David Carson is an American Graphic designer and typographer. He was the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. At the time, he was known for his "grunge typography". Carson is known also for his magazine design and experimental typography. I find him to be very talented and admirable considering he is basically a self-taught designer. His layouts in magazines featured distortions or mixes of vernacular typefaces and fractured imagery. He rendered them almost illegible, leaving it all up to the mind of the viewer. He just designed the cover of the Yale University Art Gallery. I really like his use of imagery with the distorted text. It brings his art a lot of character and use of imagination.

Amanda and Alyssa's experimentation on filling shapes

We tried to create a broken heart effect but kind of failed.. we need to learn next class this is PART I

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Amanda and Alyssa's Synopsis of Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjies is recognized as an outspoken and widely published Canadian. Marian Bantjies is also known to have taught courses at the Emily Carr Institute. With no formal arts education, Bantjies has still garnered the occasional award, though she stresses she has only been nominated out of the kindness of other people's hearts. She is a very talented graphic artist and hopes to be satisfied with all she has done in her life when she dies. She became known for her work on the LJ in ESPN magazine (below). We feel she is very talented with art work being a trained typographer. Her clients include Pentagram (Michael Bierut), Stefan Sagmeister, Saks Fifth Avenue, Maharam, Ogilvy & Mather Chicago, Young & Rubicam Chicago, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Wallpaper*, WIRED, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, among many others. She has also designed materials for the AIGA, TypeCon 2007, and the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). It was fun to recognize her work when we searched her name in Google images, she is truly passionate about her work.

Alyssa and Amanda Swan Poem Reflection