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Lac de Thyez, Haute Savoie, France.
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Our new brand Consyoumerism will be going live this week. www.consyoumerism.com
The first item will be the Graphic Design Bastard t-shirt which will be limited to an edition of 25 with the gold print.
The shirt will be powered via the www.indiegogo.com site. Our page will go live this week.
Each shirt will be £25 / $40, and this includes postage anywhere in the world. UK recorded delivery is included in the price, international postage is standard untracked Airmail. We will be able to post internationally with insured/tracked services if you would prefer this, and we can arrange the carriage with a small additional payment.
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Graphic Design Bastard t-shirt
Edition : 25 (Gold Print)
£25 / $40 (inc postage)
Everyone knows a Graphic Design Bastard, you may even be one yourself. We sure are Graphic Design Bastards, so thought this shirt could raise a smile or two out there.
Printed on black high quality Gildan Ultra Cotton shirts, and available in sizes S,M,L,XL,XXL.
(The t-shirt in the images was a sample printed using a heat vinyl technique. The final 25 shirts will be printed using traditional screen printing, so the finish may slightly vary)
Poster designed by Paula Scher, Lenny Naar, Pentagram, New York, client Collection d'affiches Contemporaines de la Ville de Chaumont, Paula Scher in Chaumont.
I hope my spelling is correct this time!
Image from Graphis Poster Annual 2007, creative director, B. Martin Pederson, published by Graphis Inc.
Ces arbres vosgiens ont été attaqués par les scolytes, auxquels ils n’ont pas su résister parce qu’ils venaient d’être affaiblis par plusieurs années de sécheresse. Une fois l’écorce ôtée, il reste le dessin des galeries de ces insectes, au point qu’ils sont appelés des « typographes ». Nos forêts sont en grand danger pour cette raison.
These trees were attacked by insects called « scolytes » (I don’t know their english name). They didn’t succeed in withstanding these attacks because they had been weakened by drought. After taking the bark off, one can say galleries that make kind of graphism : these insects are nicknamed « typographers ». As a result, our forests are exposed to grave danger.
Humans pride themselves on their creations and graphic designs. However, Nature abounds with natural creations and graphic designs all around us. We just have to stop, look and enjoy to see such wonderful creations. These leaves are endered in black and white with two layers of detailed leaves in Hawaii.
Detail of the office of Studio thonik, a renowned graphic design company. The self-designed studio at the Wibautstraat is nominated for the Golden A.A.P., the most important architecture award in Amsterdam.
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Another day over and thought i would stick up my latest picture took awhile to do but think i got to what i was looking for thanks for viewing.....
Hello everyone.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year for 2025.
I am still changing myself from a glass-half-empty kind of person to a glass-half-full kind of person. I am still building up confidence in myself to do what I can do, and chipping away my self-doubt. I am trying to get rid of the negativity, and trying to believe in the positivity.
Over the past few years, as my Photostream grow, I’ve watched the number of views every photos get, grows larger and larger. I’ve watched the number of Followers grow to more than 750 so far.
All of that is giving me a motivation to make an effort to do what I want to do.
I’m a deaf person. Here in the UK, back in the 1980s, there weren’t much human rights and disability rights, so when I told my family, hearing teachers at a deaf school, the social services, and the job advisors, that I want to get into college to study photography, and become a photographer…
They all were very negative, and not very supportive. It was a discrimination, pure and simple. It was like “No, you can’t be a photographer because you are deaf.”
“You can’t be a writer because you are deaf.”
“You can’t…” whatever is always followed by “…because you are deaf.”
All that negativity left me feeling self-doubt about myself, lack of confidence in myself. It actually took me about 10 years and maybe 5 different instructors, to finally pass my driving test.
During the 2000s to 2020s, I was a busy full time single parent, so my photography was put on hold for a while. I also had counselling seasons, to help me develop my self-confidence.
Now that my kids are older and left home, I decided to resume my career as a photographer. With more and more growing belief in myself, and chipping away my self-doubt, I’ve encouraged myself to make an effort to actually do photography.
I’m starting to believe that I can. I try to make an effort to roll up my sleeves, and get to do photography, in ways that I can. Not only because nowadays, with human rights and disability rights, but also because I start to believe in myself.
So with my growing confidence in myself, as part of my New Year’s Resolutions, I am studying how to start and run a business, for the purpose of going freelance. As soon as I’ve familiar myself with how to run a business, I aim to create a business plan, and aim to kick start my freelance business.
This is what the above photo is about, I got the books I needed, I’ve been reading some of them, studying them, and will start writing notes. For me, my resolutions for 2025 is to plan for going freelance.
In the meanwhile, I’m going to keep working on doing photography, expand my skills and my experience. I hope that if my Flickr account can grow, and motivate myself into doing more, then it will give me the motivation to do more.
Below the main subject in the above photo, is a few selected photos that acts like a preview of what I will be uploading in due course. Not only photos, but also a few graphic design work by using my own photos.
If any of you have similar experience, I wish you all many success in whatever your aims are, as you try to build up the belief in yourselves to be able to aim high and can do what you could do. Whatever your Resolutions for the New Year is, good luck and try your best.
Once again, wishing you all a Happy New Year.
This prospectus cover, designed by Peter Megert of Ohio State University before 1972, runs cold chills up my spine every time I look at it, a very effective graphic use of letterform.
I developed a work-study program (called cooperative education) with the nuclear plant WPPSS on the Hanford reservation in eastern Washington state and I saw things, and my students were involved in things that were almost beyond my comprehension.
After WPPSS collapsed, my program was transferred to Westinghouse. When Westinghouse lost the contract, Boeing took over and my program went with it. Just before I retired I was there on site in the design and photography office when the photographers came in after verifying leaks in the huge nuclear waste holding tanks. The whole operation was closed down after that. Don't plan on going up there to see for yourself. A S.W.A.T. team will meet you before you get to the site.
While walking the streets of Tacoma Washington, I came upon this graphic design on the outside marble wall of an office building. It's a cool design, IMHO.
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In my back garden, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Taken in the morning of Friday 15th November 2016.
Note: My camera was incorrectly set to the wrong year, the EXIF recorded the year as 2015, but it is really 2016.
About this photograph.
This is Marie, whom was known as LadyArtist on the model booking websites.
Marie was booked for a two hours photo-shoot project at my home. The first hour was to be standard modelling as part of a graphic design project, and the second hour was to be glamour kind of modelling.
The first hour was split into two parts. The first part was to be a general winter style fashion wear, modelling in fur coats, wearing a scarf, with jeans tucked into knee-length boots. Those can be found in my Photostream and Albums. Most of the shoots were to be used in various graphic design projects, such as magazines, catalogues, adverts, etc.
Now about the second part…
I explained to her that for this task, I needed a fictional female singer/songwriter posing for a fictional CD album art cover as part of my graphic design project. The character she pretends to be, would be a singer/songwriter, is a guitarist, and plays rock / alternative rock / soul or thereabouts. Say for example, the likes of Sharleen Spiteri, Sheryl Crow, etc.
It is not just only for a CD album art cover, but also for anything else related to the album, like tour poster, advert, magazine interview, etc, in additional to the mock-up CD case.
I asked her to pose in this black fur jacket, while keeping the rest of her outfit as she worn, carry my acoustic guitar, and stand beside the back wall of the outbuilding. The reason for this location, the need for this kind of background, is because I may want to create the album’s title on it in the form of a writing on the wall.
I may be deaf with speech impaired, so communications can sometimes be difficult, but as a very good and experienced model herself, she was able to understand my project, my plan, and my instructions, and carried out her task very well. I got the kind of shots I planned for and hoped for.
After that, bearing in mind that I was a busy full-time single parent, I did manage to get some graphic design artwork done while the kids were at school. But that task was done using CorelDRAW software on my old 32-bit Windows XP computer, and I later upgraded to a new computer with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional Edition, so sadly the old CorelDRAW software was incompatible with the new computer. As a result of this, I took the opportunity to switch to Adobe software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.,) but I have not yet had a chance to try to convert the old Corel files into the new Adobe format. I also consider on redoing the project, by improving it.
So, this is the story of the photo-shoot.
About LadyArtist.
Marie was a model (either professional or amateur, I forgotten which), and adverted on a few of the model booking websites like PurplePort and similar, under her handle of LadyArtist. But at least two years after this photo-shoot I did, she had passed away of cancer or something. I only found out two years after her death (four years after the photo-shoot), when I saw her online account was turned into some kind of a memorial by her husband. I believe by now, most of her accounts have been deactivated.
About my project.
In 1987-89, I studied traditional graphic design at college, while working for a professional photographer as a darkroom technician and photographer’s assistant. After leaving college, it was difficult to get a job because of discrimination, due to my being a deaf person. Because the college did not have much computers, the graphic design I did was the old fashion way, pencils, pens, masking tapes, prints, glue, etc., so while unemployment and seeking a job, I did self-study in digital graphic design.
For me, photography is not a hobby. I do enjoy doing photography, but not as a hobby, I would prefer it should be as a career. I considered photography as my first choice, while graphic design as my secondary choice. When I became single parent, I put it all on hold to look after the kids.
At first, when the kids were old enough, I attempted to do some graphic design for myself, mostly to keep my skills going, and to keep a portfolio full of fresh ideas to show to employers during interviews. Or if needed, I would consider going freelance for myself.
Most of my graphic design projects are generally more of publicity and media, like posters, book covers, DVD covers, etc., Often I would design CD album art covers, and this photo-shoot is part of the project. Usually I prefer to try to use my own photographs rather than rely on stock images.
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Poster designed by Phillippe Apeloig, Paris for Linotype 1999.
From Graphic Design for the 21st Century by Charlotte and Peter Fiell.
I let this one get out of sequence.
Cover design for zijeme by Ladislav Sutnar 1931, one of the great graphic design pioneers of the twentieth century. All contemporary designers should be familiar with his work.
More of the photomonage in graphic design.
Switzerland had survived WWII as a neutral country (along with Sweden) and a group of Swiss designers, who had been developing fresh, new, concepts of design from the 1930's on, now came onto the center stage of International graphic design.
After the war, the Swiss Haas type foundry commisioned Max Miedinger to refine and upgraph their older Akzidenz Grotesk fonts and they marketed the revision as Neue Haas Grotesk ( San-serif type faces go by the name Grotesk in Europe). Around 1958 the German D. Stempel AG typefoundry bought it up and introduced it as Helvetica and the rest is history. I have read that Miedinger died a bitter man as he only received a flat fee for the original redesign.
Cover Haas'che Schriftgiessersi AG typeface pattern book designed by Müller-Brockmann 1962.
This poster is available in my store:
The first work from the Five Girls series became a cover for the movie Ruchiki.
Prospectus for an influenza cure designed by René Martinelli Zurich 1957. Starting around 1958 this was the type of work that influenced me more than anything else in my own graphic design assignments. Another old, out-of-focus slide.
A Vignelli poster for Knoll International 1967.
From Knoll Design by Eric Larrabee, designed by Vignelli and published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
Packaging advertisement by Joseph Müller-Brockman. A New Graphic Design principle stated that drawing for advertising has the purpose of being objective to best serve the reader.
I was always as interested in the whole typographic internal layout as doing a smart cover design. Its not really graphic design until you can control the design of the whole publication.
My graphic design in 1969. An independent study bulletin for the University of Iowa.
I followed the rural mailman in my volkswagen beetle taking photographs of him delivering mail. He finally stopped and asked what I was doing and I explained that I was taking pictures to use at the university. That cleared things up as Iowans have a deep respect for their universities.
At least I didn't have to develop and print my shots as the university handled that through their photo lab and it was just as well. I had very little spare time because my youngest daughter played in the Iowa City high school marching band. If you've ever lived in the mid-west you would understand. I knew every high school football field from Keokuk to What Cheer. And I never realized how many kids and musical instruments could fit into a volkswagen!
Poster designed by Frost Design for London International Festival of Theatre 2000.
From Graphic Design for the 21st Century by Charlotte and Peter Fiell.
Designed by Roman Cieslewicz 1977.
Constructivism, photomantage, Expressionism, revolutionary graphic design, and more from his lifetime of work.
Poster by Joseph Müller-Brockman 1959. If you have ever worked and lived around dairy herds or cattle you come to understand what work really is, and dairy products advertising illustrations that create dancing cows in daisy hats look ridiculous. I prefer this approach.
Americans seem to respond more to eclectic visuals and Europeans seem to respond more to objective visuals. It's a cultural difference.
Designed by Roman Cieslewicz, the Polish master of contemporary graphic design 1979 .
Constructivism, photomantage, Expressionism, revolutionary graphic design, and more from his lifetime of work.
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Two versions of an album art that I created, ten years apart.
What is this about?
This was a graphic design project I did back in 2012 (left side) and recently in 2022 (right side).
In 2012, the project was to create an album art, print it, cut it out, and fit it in a blank CD jewel case. The purpose of this was to take it with me when attending an interview, for example a job interview, and showcase my skills and experience. It goes with my portfolio displaying examples of my graphic design works.
When my teenager kids were attending secondary school, I did manage to apply for an adult course in graphic design at a college, in the hope of refreshing my skills, and getting better qualifications to replace my outdated ones. When attending an interview, I showed this CD album art to the interviewer, whom was impressed.
The woman seen in the album art is not a model, she is a very close personal long-time friend of mine, herself a single mother, and she posed for me as a favour.
The train, seen in the background, was an old steam train at one of those heritage railway stations in the United Kingdom. The photographs of my friend posing at the railway station was taken with a Nikon D200 around February 2012.
About the artist and album title.
Lisa Jones is the name of a fictional character. When doing graphic design projects, like designing a CD album case cover, music video cover, tour poster, t-shirt, or magazine article layout, of a solo female artist, I use this fictional character in my designs.
The fictional Lisa Jones could be described as singer-songwriter, guitar player, her genres are rock, alternative rock, and that she could be kind of similar to Sharleen Spiteri or Sheryl Crow.
The album title The Mystery Lady At The Station, is a made up title. As I mentioned above, the woman in the photo is a close friend whom did a favour for me, not a booked model. She doesn’t mind if I created a graphic design work using the photo of her, as long as she is not clearly seen. So when I thought to do a cropped version, I realised the image makes her look like a mystery woman, and decided to give it a title based on this.
The track titles are actually sort of like a diary or journal, done in a bullet point style, and serves as reminder for me, to remember events I did in my life.
The top row shows the front page of the inlay card, which is the main album art cover for the front of the jewel case. The bottom row shows the back of the jewel cases.
On the left side.
This was done in 2012 using CorelDRAW 10 on my older computer running on Windows 98.
During 1987 to 89, I attended a college course, studying traditional graphic design, which means using pencils, pens, paints, craft knife and masking tapes, because at that time, the college did not have enough computers for all students.
Years later, in 1995, I got myself a Windows 3.1 computer, mainly for using word processor, but realised that at that time, more and more companies are switching from old fashion traditional graphic design to digital way done on computers. I figured it would make sense if I buy myself a graphic design software and install it on my computer, then self-teach myself in digital art.
So, I bought CorelDRAW 3, few years later I upgraded my computer to a new model with Windows 98. After that, I upgraded from Version 3 to 4, and then to 10.
Here is how I did it: I imported two photographs of my friend into Corel Photo-Paint, and used its range of filters to try to turn the photos into some kind of art-like images, like a watercolour painting or similar, then saved them as JPEG format images.
After that, I imported the JPEG images into CorelDRAW’s vector software, and created the inlay card and back cover. The tickets on the front cover, and the fictional company logo on the back cover, were modified from pre-prepared Clipart images that came on the CD-ROM.
Then simply print them out, cut them out, and install them into a jewel case.
On the right side.
This was done in 2022, this time using Adobe Creative Cloud software, on my current computer running on Windows 7 Professional Edition.
In the summer of 2015, I custom built my new computer with Windows 7 Professional Edition, in 64-bit mode. Sadly that mean some of the older software including CorelDRAW could not be installed on my new machine, as they were programmed for 32-bit and were incomparable.
So I switched to Adobe software. I’m aware that many photographers use Adobe Lightroom only, while many prefer Adobe Photoshop only, and some prefer both of them. However as I not only just do photography, but also do graphic design, I opt for the “All Apps” package, which includes InDesign and Illustrator, as well as Lightroom and Photoshop.
Because I was unable to install my old CorelDRAW 10 software on my Windows 7 machine, I hoped to open the original .CDR format files in Illustrator, and try to convert into .AI format file. Unfortunately there were some problems with the designs, like missing fonts, photos showing outside the lines, stuff like that. It would request some major changes to make them workable.
So I decided to start afresh.
Here’s how I did it: First, I imported the photos into Photoshop, and saved them as .PSD format files, instead of exporting them as .JPEG files. I used Photoshop’s filters to change the looks, and saved them.
For the inlay card to be installed in the front cover of the jewel case, I used Adobe InDesign. Because the inlay card is often created as a booklet, InDesign is better suited for this. I imported the .PSD file into InDesign, and if it does not look right, I would make changes to the .PSD file in Photoshop then save them. The InDesign file can be automatically updated with the changes.
For the back cover, I used Adobe Illustrator instead, and like as above, I imported the .PSD file into Illustrator, then create the rest of the details such as track titles, copyright notices, fictional company logo, etc. As with InDesign, if the .PSD image does not look right, I can make changes in Photoshop, save it, and Illustrator will automatically update with the new look.
Conclusion.
So that is why I have two versions of same album art. One was created in 2012 using CorelDRAW on older 32-bit operating system, and the other was redone in 2022 with Adobe software, on 64-bit Windows.
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De voetgangerstunnel onder het NS station van Breda. Wordt 's avonds laat door hekken afgesloten want men ervaart deze tunnel als heel onveilig. Het ontwerp van de tegeltjes is van de hand van Peter Struycken en is aangebracht tijdens de verbouwing in 1975.
Deze foto is in large - on black - veel mooier en hij wordt zelfs magisch als je hem bekijkt als het buiten helemaal donker is.