Historyof graphicdesign

HISTORY OF GRAPHIC

DESIGN

Tom LaneTom Lane (also known as the Ginger Monkey) illustrates for books, magazines and others when he’s not working on his own portfolio. His art involves ‘play and experimentation’.

Tom Lane grew up and lived in a town known as the Shire, before moving to Bristol with his wife to be.

After Graduating from the University of West England, his freelance career quickly grew into a specialized career in typography and design, working with clients mainly in Bristol, mostly in advertising. This grew bigger and bigger due to the internet

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I like Tom Lane’s style as it is very modern, imaginative, and relies on tiny details to make a picture what it is. His designs all show clearly what is being said in the typography.I could use Tom Lanes style in my own work by taking his use of freeform typography inside objects, or even literally making words look like what they mean (team work makes the dream work).

Saul BassSaul Bass was an award winning graphic designer and film maker, born May 8th 1920 in New York City. He studied at Brooklyn college. After working with Otto Preminger on a movie poster for his film ‘Carmen Jones’, Otto was extremely impressed by Saul’s work and asked him to produce a title sequence for the film. Saul was one of the first to realise the potential of the title sequences in films.

Bass got famous from working on Otto Preminger’s ‘Man with a golden arm’, after creating the (controversial) cut out paper image of a heroine addicts’ arm.Bass went on to work with respected directors such as Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Bass worked on film titles for 40 years before his death in 1996, his last work being for Scorsese’s ‘Casino’.

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Saul Bass has a flair and an

extremely recognizable style, which

would be hard to replicate fully, but

I could take into mind for my own

work the use of abstract silhouettes.

Lee Bamforth

Lee is a 23 year old, award winning graphic designer and artist from Sheffield. His obsessions and influences are ’35mm cameras and horror and sci-fi VHS from the 80’s’.He has been working freelance for 3 years, after gaining a foundation degree in Graphic design and a degree in illustration.His work is based around his hometown of Sheffield but he is also featured in exhibitions and on the internet. His modern take on the 80’s influences give a very retro feel to his work.

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Lee Bamforth’s style is to kind of reinvent and modernize retro images and graphics.Studying his work would give me inspiration when trying to design ads for reinventing an old product by giving it a modern spin. I have also noticed that he uses a lot of Red in his works, maybe to show different emotions such as compassion or anger.