5 Influential designers
1-Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser is an American graphic designer,born in June the 26 1929.He is a very well known designer,in 1954 he co-founded Push Pin Studios,co-founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker, and established Milton Glaser Inc.He was awarded the National Medal of the Arts award from President Barack Obama in 2009, and was the first graphic designer to receive this prestigious award.His artwork has been featured in exhibits and placed in permanent collections in many museums around the world.He is a designer who does things different creates new things.He also created Bob Dylans cover for his greatest hits album.Miltons designs vary in style showing a sense of abstract and imaginative qualities to them.I admire Miltons work because brings hope to all with his art,when New York was through tough times and crime rate was rising,Milton created the Iconic I❤NY sign,this helped many people,he also did work with Barack Obama and made a design representing hope.He just seems like a really nice welcoming guy.
2-Steven Harrington
Steven Harrington is a graphic designer based in Los Angeles.He is best known for his bright vibrant pop art,he works with big brands all the time including Nike and The Times and much more.He also makes sculptures out of paper and stone,is is an awesome way to display his art and I really like his work,I like the feel of his designs,they are quite goofy and I feel that bring out his personality.I really like is colourful bright pop art and he's a very known artist having his designs all around the world.Hes a very good illustrator,I also like how he can do a variety of stuff including hand screened prints, limited-edition books, skateboards, and sculptures.I think hes just a good around designer.
3-David Carson
David Carson is a graphic designer and art director based in America.He's best known for is intuitive magazine designs and the use of his experimental typography.He is also an art director for the magazine Ray Gun.I really like his magazines as there quite dark themed magazines with very interesting typography,it is a faded ruged look but I think it really suits his dark theme,he is a very good designer and an inspirational magazine designer.
4-Steven Heller
Steven Heller is a american designer who's jobs varies from being a art director journalist,he works with illustration and typography,he is also an author and his book relate to design as a whole and he writes lots of books about it.His designs are mainly on typography and he uses shapes to position his typography,he also uses movements to shape his designs,quotes are also frequently used in his designs which help him create a meaning to them.They are very different and I love it.
5-Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann is a designer and writer,he is also an honorary professor at the University Of Arts Bremen and Artcenter College Of Design.His designs are focused on typography,there is a wide range of it designed by him and he uses his thoughts as fuel for his design,quotes and recolouring help his designs shine.The thing I like about him is he just states his mind not worrying about anything else.His work is inspirational and I really fancy it.He uses quotes and sentences as his main focus in his typography and varies it from there.
Compare and contrast
Steven Heller and Erik Spiekermann
Similarities
Both Erik and Steven are users of typography,they both use what means the most to them as a flare to design more and create better work.Designs from both of them are not rare as they have both be experienced for years.They both hold other jobs that connect and contribute to there design work.These are two really good designers.They express themselves and there passion and thats why I think a lot of people like there work.
They both use the similar style of design,this being typography,they both share a love for typography and design a variation of it.They both use quotes and sentences as there main fuel in the design and the quotes which they use have a meaning behind it every time.Both of there messages are similar in the sense of getting to design more and grind for it.The meaning for both of these guys designs comes from there heart.They both use there own original thinking to help them design there work,the work they design can vary from teaching people how to design to how to become a better designer as a whole,both of them seem to aim there work at a younger audience and it displays to them how to become a better artist/designer.
Differences
These two are also different in some ways to,they use different ways to show and display there work,Erik's emotions are present throughout his work very intensely which lead to it being for quite mature audiences as of the use of swear words occur a lot in his work.Where as Steven is alot more closed with his emotions not using swear words in his work but he expresses emotions differently.There artwork is also used and expressed in different ways,Steven uses his books and journalism as a bridge to his artwork e.g designing his own cover for his book and journalism.Erik uses his job at The University as a connection to help get his work out there showing and using his artwork as a example for the students there.They both have different ways of showing there work and its cool to see were it took them.
Both of these talented designers are incredible at what they do and no matter there similarities and differences,they are good artists,they both focus there work on helping other to design and create inspiring artwork.They use different ways to express that but use the same technique of typography to show it.Both Erik Spiekermann and Steven Heller are awesome cool inspiring designers and they help to use there work to benefit all of the other designers.
