Student Website Review

Billy Heemer:

Your page one is beautifully done. I love the Lightly colored circles in the top left. They really help to balance out the page in a very subtle way. All of your type is also very nice. I like how you have your name and "design.photography.animation" and a few pictures on the top right, and then your links to other parts of your project on the bottom left. The photo of the street is also pretty cool. Definitely nice work.

Natalie Bett:

I like the color of the background on your multi page. And I also think that the color of text compliments the background well. The fact that you put a little bit of information on the multi page is nice. Most people just put the three links, making the page very empty. Its also nice that you added a link back to the home page. I didn't even think about that, but now i wish i had. Nice work.

Artist: Paul Rand

Paul Rand is known for his many timeless logos, most importantly including IBM, UPS, Abc, Ford, Cummins, and Enron. He attended Pratt Institute, the Art Students League, and Parsons New School for Design. While in school, Rand developed what has come to be known as the Swiss Style of graphic design used by many designers even today.

In 1936, Apparel Arts magazine gave Paul the task of setting their page layouts. This was where his reputation first started to grow. His remarkable talent for transforming mundane photographs into dynamic compositions gave editorial weight to the pages. Due to his new found fortay, Rand was given a full time job and even offered the job of art director for the Esquire-Coronet magazines. After a year of putting it off (due to him not feeling he was ready for what the job demanded) he took over responsibility for Esquire. Rand was only 23 at the time. After that, he went on to design countless logos for major corporations, and also teaching at Yale University. 

Artist: David Carson

David Carson was born on September 8th, 1954 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since then, he has lived in many places throughout the US and Europe. Carsons first exposure to graphic design came in 1980 in a two-week graphics course at the University of Arizona. He gained an interest in art, and later attended San Diego State University and also Oregon College of Commercial Art. As part of his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology degree, Carson was teaching a high school sociology class in Del Mar, California. He then went to Switzerland for a three-week graphics course, taught by Hans-Rudolf Lutz. Lutz was Carsons first major influence in the world of graphic design. 

In the late 1990's, David Carson started to get some major recognition for his inventive graphics. Through out the 80's and 90's Carson worked as art director for various music, skateboarding, and surfing magazines. These included twSkateboarding, twSnowboarding, Surfer, Beach Culture, and Ray Gun. It wasn't until his work in Ray Gun (1992-95) that he gained worldwide recognition. 

His work was full of distorted, mixed typefaces and fractured imagery, to the point that they were essentially illegible. In the later 90's he added corporate clients to his list: Microsoft, Armani, Nike, Levis, British Airways, Quicksilver, Sony, Pepsi, Citibank, Yale University, Toyota, and many others. David Carson was named one of the 5 most influential designers of all time by Graphic Design USA Magazine, putting him on the same level as Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, and Massimo Vignelli. 

Artist: Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser was born on June 26th, 1929 to a Hungarian Jewish family in New York.  Glaser first studied art at Manhattans High School of Music and Art, graduated from the Cooper Union in 1951, and later went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he studied under Giorgio Morandi.

Glaser first formed Push Pin Studios with several of his Cooper Union classmates.  His work is characterized by directness, simplicity and originality.  He has been known to use any medium or style to solve the design problem in front of him.  His countless book jackets, albums covers, advertisements, and direct mail pieces showcase his wide range of styles, from wildly primitive to avant garde.

Milton started his own studio, called Milton Glaser inc., in 1974.  this led to an increasingly wide spread diversity of projects, ranging from the design of the New York Magazine, of which he was co-founder, to a 600-foot mural for the Federal Office Building in Indianapolis.  Throughout his career he has made a huge impact on the world of graphic design, effecting not only people of his time, but generations to come.

Artist: GMB Akash

For years, GMB Akash has been traveling the world, capturing social issues faced by the people whom society seems to forget.  He focuses on capturing and exposing the problem of the lesser known people of the world, mostly in his home country of Bangladesh.  Through his photographs, Akash has shown countless stories of the socially isolated groups, making him known around the world as one of the leaders in documentary photography. 

Over his years of work, Akash has received over 60 awards international awards from all around the world.  His work has been in over 50 major international publications including: National Geographic, Vogue, Time, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegal, The Fader, Brand Ein, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Colors, The Economist, The New Internationalist, Kontinente, Amnesty Journal, Courier International, PDR, Die Zeit, Days Japan, Hello, and Sunday Telegraph of London.  

Artist: Brandon Rike

 Since Brandon Rike could hold a crayon, he was in love with art.  He "wanted to be an artist when he grows up" ever since he knew what growing up meant.  In elementary school he took special art classes for advanced kids, and when in high school he was taking college art classes.  When he was 13 years old, him and his friends started a band.  That where he began his band design career.  He was constantly making flyers for his band by hand, or creating them in Microsoft paint.  His first real band logo was done on a piece of graph paper in Geometry class.  It was until later that he found out that this was called "graphic design."

After high school, Brandon went on the road with his band.  He spent his "college years" living in a van, traveling around the country, playing rock and roll for anyone that would have him.  They even managed to get signed to a label in Seattle, and put out three albums.  Over these years, he made friends with a number of bands, which allowed him to start designing shirts for more than just his own band.  Somewhere around 2002, he began getting paid to design shirts.  In 2006, his band stopped playing together, and Brandon started his full time career as a graphic designer.  He has been designing band t-shirts ever since.

Besides band shirts, he does an occasional logo or poster.  But his true love is in the shirt designs.  he enjoys most "tweaking letters around, getting them just right, and being able to come back to it, some time later and still be tickled with my work."

Artist: David Airey

David Airey was born in 1979 in Bangor, County Down, near the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast.  Being a genius, David went to college at the age of 15 to study art and design.  After 4 years, Airey went to Scotland to study graphic communications management at Edinburgh Napier University.  He then earned a post-graduate diploma in management at Belfast's Parity Training, before returning to Edinburgh.  In 2003, David finally finished his "formal design education."

After school, Airey taught English as a second language for a short time.  He then went on to advertising sales for Scotland's national newspaper, The Scotsman.  His next job was as the head of print design, print management, and web management at Myeloma UK.  Airey loved the jobs he had over the few years of his career, but in 2006, he decided that going the self-employed route was best for him.  As he began to build a web-presence and attract new clients, he worked as a contractor with his former employer for a couple of years.

As a brand identity designer and author, Airey specializes in creating visual identities for companies including Yellow Pages, Giacom, The Asian Development Bank, and Berthier Associates.  He also writes 2 graphic design blogs, logodesignlove.com and davidairey.com.  He also manages Identity Designed, a site featuring the work of design studios around the world.  Airey is author of a book called Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities.  He is currently stationed in his home studio in Northern Ireland, where he continues to work as one of the most sought after designers in the world.

Interactivity

Interactivity, by definition, is "allowing or relating to continuous two-way transfer of information between a user and the central point of a communication system, such as a computer or television." Interactivity on a website means that the viewer of the site has the choice to click on things, scroll over them, etc, and that in turn triggers a response. It can make an object move, bring you to a new site, bring up information, or a plethora of other things. 

Artist: Herman Leonard

Herman Leonard was born and raised in Allentown, PA.  His interest in photography began in 1923, at age 9.  Herman witnessed an image being processed in his bothers darkroom and became enthralled with the magic of photography.  Throughout school, Hermans shyness was always holding him back, but not when he had a camera in his hand.  As the official school photographer for his high school, he was able to capture many great images of his classmates and the events that they went to.  Herman went to college at Ohio University because it was the only school at the time to offer a degree in Photography. In 1943, he took a break from college to serve with the United States Army in Burma.  He returned to college and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.


Hermans passion for Jazz brought him to New York City in 1949.  He quickly established a studio at 220 Sullivan Street and captured the jazz clubs of Broadway, 52nd Street and Harlem.  He photographed and forged friendships with some of the worlds greats, such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and many more.  In the late 50's Herman moved to London where he continued to shoot jazz, while also being the European photographer for Playboy Magazine.  In 1980, Herman moved from Paris to the Island of Ibiza, where he lived until 1988.  He then moved to New Orleans in 1991 and fell in love with the cities lively jazz scene and exhibited his work around the world in numerous solo shows.  In 1995, Herman released his second book, Jazz Memories, published by Editions Filipacchi and in that same year was awarded an Honorary Masters of Science in Photography from The Brooks Institute of Photography. Other awards include the "Milt Hinton Award for Excellence in Jazz Photography," from Jazz Photographer's Association in 1999, the "Excellence in Photography Award" from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2000 and a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Downbeat Magazine in 2004.


Herman's jazz photographs are a unique record of the jazz scene of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The Smithsonian claims 130 original Herman Leonard photographic prints in its permanent collection, where they are considered as essential to American music history as Benny Goodman's clarinet or Louis Armstrong's horn. Herman's work is also represented in numerous public collections including, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NY, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA, and the George Eastman House, NY, as well as the private collections of Sir Elton John, Bruce Bernard and His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.

Artist: Michael Muller

Michael Muller is an American photographer made famous by his advertising and celebrity photography. His list of celebrities includes Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Downey Jr, Shepard Fairey, Hugh Jackman, and Alec Baldwin. He has also taken shots featured on movie posters such as Iron Man and X-Men Origins. 

As a child, Michael and his family were based in Saudi Arabia, but traveled to 40 different countries. During these trips, Michaels father would take a lot of photos. With this influence constantly around him, he found himself drawn to photography. As a teen growing up in North Carolina, Muller became involved in the snowboarding scene. This led to the beginning of his professional career. In fact, the first 5 published photos Michael ever had were of snowboarders. After this initial success, he spent the next 5 years traveling the world and photographing the sports best athletes. 

Michael made his way back to Los Angeles where he began to experiment with portraiture. In the years since, his photos have been seen on magazines and album covers, ad campaigns, fashion editorials, and gallery exhibitions. "I take photos becuase it is my purpose," Michael said. "My personal mission every time that viewfinder meets my eye is I set out to pull as much energy, personality, and true soul that every person possesses. The word "pose" is not in my dictionary."

Artist: Jonathan Mannion

Jonathan Mannion is a Photographer from Cleveland, OH. He is known for the many album covers that he has shot for hip hop artists over the years. His professional career started in 1996, when he shot the cover of Jay-z's "Reasonable Doubt." From that point on, Jonathan's career has grown with the culture of hip hop music. He has been the main contributor to the visual documentation of era of music. DJ Quik was once quoted saying "the world sees hip hop through Mannions eyes."


"I'm just a messenger, and I¹ve been given a talent to document an extremely important era of music history. I have a love for hip-hop that goes back to when I was a teenager, and I feel blessed to have had the chance to shoot the artists I've worked with. I've had the opportunity to grow with them and the photos I've shot over the years have become visual bullet points of their creative evolution and mine."

Mannion's prides himself in finding new ways to push the boundaries of photography. It is his mission to constantly re-examine and redefine the art of celebrity portraiture. "My work is very intimate. I want people to feel like they're being let in to these superstars' lives through my pictures." Jonathan has also shot with athletes such as Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, Magic Johnson and 7 time Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong. Mannion has an undeniably impressive way of blending the super-stardom with the personal. His images help to define an entire generation.

Artist: Sam Jones

When Sam Jones was growing up, he never thought he would be a photographer. His only real interests were playing guitar and skateboarding. Eventually, after his second year of college, he chose communications as his major. He soon found out that photography was a required class, so he borrowed his friends camera and went out to take pictures of his friends skateboarding in the streets. It wasnt long until he realized that he had discovered a hidden talent. Sam took a few more photography classes in college, but it wasnt until his last one that he realized what he wanted to do with his life.

The class was called Advanced Photojournalism. It was taught by Mark Boster, a photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Mark was his first insight to what it meant to be a real photographer. During college Sam took thousands of photos, and then he got his big break. During his senior year, he was photographing a school basketball game when a man in the crowd suffered a heart attack. Sam was able to snap a couple photos while UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian helped the man. After the game a member of the Associated Press approached Sam and asked to see his photos. after looking through his shots he said "You shoot basketball better than most of our staffers. do you want a job?"

Sam worked at the Associated Press for the next three long years. Eventually Tim Robbins saw his work and asked him to come to Pittsburgh to be his photographer for Bob Roberts, a film he was directing. While in set, Sam would ask celebrities if he could photograph them in between scenes. This is where he got into the photography that he does today. Soon after, Sam landed a job with Entertainment Weekly. He eventually worked his way up to his own shoots with some of the worlds biggest celebrities.

These days Sam Jones is considered one the most loved and talented celebrity photographers in the world. He has the unique ability to humanize these people who are so often idolized throughout society. If you get a chance, check out w=his work. Its very refreshing to see celebrities shown in a different light.

Artist: Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey was born on February 15, 1970. Coming up in the scateboard scene of the 80's and 90's, he is now a world famous graphic designer and illustrator. He first became know for a campaign of stickers featuring Andre the Giant, but it was in 2008 when he really became known throughout the world.

For the 2008 presidental campaign, Fairey made a series of posters for now president Barack Obama, one of which was the iconic "hope" portrait. the poster got much attention, even being called "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam wants You'". Fairey distributed 300,000 stickers and 500,000 posters during the campaign. He was quoted saying, "I just put all the money back into making more stuff, so I didnt keep any of the Obama money." Fairey received a letter of thanks in February 2008 from Obama for his contribution to the campaign.

Currently Shepard Fairey sits on the advisory board of Reaching to Embrace the Arts. The non-profit organization provides art supplies to schools and students who cannot afford them. He is also a board member of the Music Is Revolution Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting music education in public schools. Shepard Fairey lives in Los Angeles with his wife Amanda and daughters Vivienne and Madeline.

Artist: JR

-JR is an anonymous street artist and photographer. He is known for his large-scale black and white images that he posts on the sides of buildings in cities and slums around the world, using the world as his personal art gallery. He says the streets are "the largest art gallery in the world." JR's work "often challenges widely held preconceptions and the reductive images propagated by advertising and the media."

His passion was initially sparked when he found a camera in his home town of Paris, France. He took the camera and traveled around the city meeting local people whos "galleries" were also the streets of the city. After talking to the graffiti artists he met in the streets, he posted their portraits on the walls of Paris. From 2004 to 2006, JR created "Portraits of a Generation". This was a collection of portraits of young people from the housing projects around Paris that he exhibited in huge format. This illegal project was made official when the City of Paris joined in putting JR’s photos up on buildings around the city. In 2007, JR went to Palestinian and Israeli cities and pasted photos of Palestinians and Israelis face to face on wither side of the separation barrier. When asked about this powerful and dangerous project, he said "The heroes of the project are all those who, on both sides of the wall, allowed me to paste the portraits on their houses." JR calls himself an "urban artivist". He creates powerful, meaningful art that he puts up on the buildings in the Paris area projects, on the walls of the Middle East, on the broken bridges of Africa or in the favelas of Brazil.

JR has been introduced by Fabrice Bousteau as "the one we already call the Cartier-Bresson of the 21st century." JR was awarded the TED prize for 2011. The TED Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and, much more important, 'One Wish to Change the World.' Designed to leverage the TED community's exceptional array of talent and resources, the Prize leads to collaborative initiatives with far-reaching impact."