David Carson // helvetica // "grunge" era

Carson is considered one of the most influential graphic designers of the nineties. when doing my own work, I really like to use different fonts to express what the piece is about or exaggerate what the words are trying to say and it seems like Carson does that very well. The author of this article seems to be annoyed by Carson's work. I guess some people just want everything standardized! The first picture I posted is from a 1994 Ray Gun magazine which Carson was the art director for. Carson decided that because the article he had to print in the magazine was so boring he would print the entire thing in dingbats, which is hilarious and creative at the same time. The next two posts are just spreads out of the Ray Gun magazine that I think best exemplify Carson's work. The last post is of the cover of Carson's 4th book, Trek, that was released in 2000.

Leonetto Cappiello // Art Nouveau

Leonetto Cappiello is associated with the art nouveau movement. He was born in Italy and lived in Paris and is considered the father of modern advertising because of his design ability with posters. Cappiello had the ability to create a creature, that had nothing to do with the product, and yet somehow it all worked in his poster design. One of the first posters Cappiello made for a merchant product was Amandines de provence in 1900. 
In 1906 Cappiello did a poster for Maurin Quina featuring this green devil creature. 
Isolabella is a poster for a vintage french liquor that Cappiello did in 1910.

Neville Brody // helvetica

Brody is a british designer and art director who founded research studios in 1994. His style is so inspiring because it is so non-traditional. The dirty faces poster is a poster for a font that brody designed. Brody also created FUSE which is a fuse of a magazine, graphic design, and font design. He designed this FUSE poster to promote that project. The "handgloves" another font that brody designed called FF Blur. I also found a couple of THE FACE magazine covers that brody designed.

Joseph Muller Brockman // international style

Brockman was simply a graphic design genius way ahead of his time. I have posted two examples of concert posters that were both done in 1955 by brockman for the Zurich Tonhalle. I really like the Beethoven one because of the unique way the lines mimic an old concert hall. The Strawinsky one is also great beacuse of how modern it is. It looks like a poster you would see around somewhere today. Around the time that he did the concert hall posters he also made a series of posters for the Swiss Automobile Club supporting their "Watch that child!" campaign. The example here is great because of the size relationship between the motorcycle and the child being so exaggerated.