Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | Fall 2022
Paul Rand “Good Design Is Good Will” 1987 from Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field page 64-69 and Steven Heller “Underground Mainstream” in Design Observer 2008.
Paul Rand is right in the sense that there is meant to be … Read More
At the top of the post copy and paste the following: Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures by Madeleine Morley, Eye on Design, 2018, Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men by Silas Munro, Eye … Read More
This is a street art campaign from 1989 created by Shepard Fairey featuring a famous wrestler Andre the giant. on the left-hand side, we can see his name and his title, and on the right-hand side his height and weight. Fairey referred to the campaign … Read More
80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019” by Nadja Sayej, published in PRINT, March 6, 2019
Roland Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image” essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
Images hold and convey meaning. People touch and understand the world through their senses. In addition to the language information received … Read More
Paul Rand “Good Design Is Good Will” 1987 from  Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field page 64-69 and Steven Heller “Underground Mainstream” in Design Observer 2008.
What is your opinion of Paul Rand’s view of the designer/client relationship?
In my … Read More
Sign, signified and signifier…what do they mean?
Sign is a 2 factor psychological idea : concept and sound-image. These are two factors that are united. Sign is not a physical thing but more of a psychological imprint of the sound, that leaves an impression on … Read More
Roland Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image“ essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
Images hold and convey meaning. Human minds have a tendency to believe what we perceive. In this advertising poster, we see … Read More
 “80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019” by Nadja Sayej, published in PRINT, March 6, 2019
The first poster is a 1980s movie poster for Jaws. We can find some similarities between what the article is discussing. This poster makes use … Read More
You will be reading and annotating the article “80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019” by Nadja Sayej, published in PRINT, on March 6, 2019
This image is one of the examples of postmodern art from the 1980s. It was created … Read More
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