Stanley Donwood is the pen name of English painter, graphic designer and writer Dan Rickwood. Donwood is known for his close association with the Radiohead, having created all their album and poster art since 1994. He has also collaborated with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and others on the band’s website, and has appeared in the occasional band webcast and with Yorke at the 2001 Grammy Awards ceremony. He studied at University of Exeter with Thome Yorke while in college.
The Eraser Cover (2006)
- Stanley Donwood uses line and movement in this composition
- This piece is successful because it is all black and white except the title
- It also remains stylistically consistent throughout
Josef Müller-Brockmann, (May 9, 1914, August 30, 1996), was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design, and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he produced concert posters for the Tonhalle in Zurich. In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. In 1966 he was appointed European design consultant to IBM. Müller-Brockman was author of the 1961 publications The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, Grid Systems in Graphic Design where he advocates use of the grid for page structure, and the 1971 publications History of the Poster and A History of Visual Communication.
Das Freundliche Handzeichen, Schutzt vor Unfallen (1954)
- uses the grid structure
- successfully incorporates photograph and type
- size and direction are used by the hand and the cars. The hand appears to be jumping off the page and the cares are smaller and moving in a horizontal direction.
Armin Hofmann, a well known designer, followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Basel School of Design and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style. He is well known for his posters, stage design, logos, typographic work, and three-dimensional designs. His posters have been widely exhibited as works of art in major galleries, such as the New York MOMA. Armin Hofmann was one of the pioneers of the International Typographic Style, a new graphic design style that emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s to become the predominant graphic style in the world by the 1970s.
- This poster, Giselle, was used for the Municipal theatre in Basle
- The typographic element to his piece is structured and grid like while the photograph is soft and breaks the rigidness of the type
- The gestalt principles used are continuation because the photograph continues into the type, closure because the ballerina’s leg is not finished but you know what it is and that it continues
- An element used in this design in direction. The grid system enhances the vertical movement in the piece created through the type and also the image.
Emil Ruder (1914-1970)
-Swiss designer
-Began teaching in 1942
-Founded Basel School of Design with Armin Hofmann
-Helped found the International Center for Typographic Arts
das Kinderbilderbuch
Emil Ruder followed the page grid structure and sans serif fonts that fit the Swiss Style.
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