What makes Expression Graphic Designer different?

Expression is without a doubt the most innovative vector software available. Skeletal strokes give endless possibilities. Strokes follow a path, which can be manipulated like any vector software, but they can mimic water colors, crayon, oils, inks, and other media. Expression comes with strokes or you can make your own custom strokes from scanned brush strokes, objects you draw in Expression, or even from brushstrokes from Painter, Illustrator, or Photoshop, among many others. Strokes can also be made from bitmaps, including scanned painted brushstrokes for added texture! Objects can even be combined to make single strokes.

Source: http://blog.by-expression.com/index.php/what-makes-expression-graphic-designer-different/

Contemporary Graffiti

With heightened security in the 80's, subway graffiti slowly died out. In 1989, the last train with significant amounts of graffiti on it was taken off the lines, ending an era. Traveling on the subways in 2003, there is virtually no graffiti to be seen on the outside of trains, and only dim scratchings here and there on the insides. But graffiti lives on, on city walls and other more unlikely places. Recently, there has been a trend towards writing graffiti on freight trains. Nowadays, artists are "getting up" not just in their own city, but across the country, furthering the transmission and mixing of different graffiti styles from all over. Graffiti has also become a way to make money. Graffiti art has been featured in exclusive galleries and has exerted its influence on the world of graphic design. Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see graffiti-style or graffiti-inspired art on t-shirts, posters, and CD covers.

However subway graffiti is not completely dead. Through the windows, if you are at the walls near the tracks (that aren't underground), there's still plenty of graffiti to be seen. When the subway trains are underground, if you look through the windows in between stations, you can still see a lot of graffiti, some of it older probably, but some of it newer as well. Self expression can be stifled but never completely stopped.

Street Artists - Graffiti

Here are some artists of graffiti, i wanna introduce with you:

• D*Face (UK) - Graffiti, Graphic Designer, Sticker art

• Mysterious Al (UK) - Graffiti, illustration, Sticker art: was one of the first of a new generation of graffiti artists known as 'street artists' who apply their work in public spaces through medium such as stickers, wheat paste and marker drawings, as opposed to aerosol based graffiti art.

• Os Gemeos (Brazil) - Graffiti

• Above (USA) - Graffiti, Installation art, Stencil Graffiti, Sticker art

• André (France) - Graffiti

• Neckface (USA) - Graffiti

• Chanoir (Barcelona, Spain) - Graffiti

• André' Pierre Charles aka A.Charles (USA) - Graffiti

• El Xupet Negre (Barcelona, Spain) - Graffiti

• Tsang Tsou Choi aka King of Kowloon (Hong Kong) - Graffiti

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_street_artists#Graffiti

Graffiti terminology

A number of words and phrases have come to describe different styles and aspects of graffiti. Like all slang and colloquialisms, the phrases vary in different cities and countries. The following terminology comes primarily from the United States. Here are some kinds of graffiti:

back to back

Graffiti that covers a wall from end to end, as seen on some parts of the West-Berlin side of the Berlin Wall. Similarly, trains sometimes receive end to end painting when a carriage has been painted along its entire length. This is often abbreviated as e2e. End to ends used to be called window-downs but this is an older expression that is falling from popularity.

Berlin Wall

backjump
black book

bomb

bite
buff
burner
crew
dress-up
end-to-end
etch
giraffiti
go over
heaven spots
insides
king
married couple
nick
paint-eater
piece (short form of masterpiece)
racking
rusto
scribe
slash
sticky
tag(scribble)
throw-up
top-to-bottom
toy
undersides
up
wack
whole car
whole train
window - down

Some Haragei logos - draft

I and Young Hee created some logos for assignment 2, just some ideas including logo of the company and logo for mobile.

I designed


Young Hee designed

Steps of designing logo

Normally, I need to know what i create a logo about. Then, its concept will be focused in order to create a suitable logo for each purpose. Looking at the name of company about 15 minutes is my habit before designing. I wanna feel it and get inspiration to design. Next, i try to write the name of company in many different ways and focus on each letter then. Sometimes i write it on a paper, and sometimes i work on the computer. Depending on the concept of company, i gotta decide which one is the best and then make it completely by editing on the computer. I often use photoshop, illustrator and fireworks to do this job.

Typography in the Art Nouveau Period

True Reactionaries or Embarrassing Kitsch?

By the end of the 1950s, the work of the Art Nouveau movement was generally considered kitsch and seen as a rather embarrassing chapter in art history. However, art dealers were soon able to successfully introduce a profitable Art Nouveau renaissance.

The American ’youth movement’ of the 1960s borrowed Art Nouveau forms and combined them with psychedelic elements to create a form of protest often combined with vehement rally cries. These well-meaning attempts were even more quickly marketed and integrated than their predecessor of the turn of the century.

Poster by Gary Grimshaw, ca. 1968

Poster by Rick Griffin, 1968

Vignette by Henry van de Velde