Archive for the ‘Heroes and Heroines’ Category
Ian Beck
Ian Beck is another Author and Illustrator, known for his books called Tom Trueheart. He was born in Sussex in 1947, and attended the Brighton School of Art. Since then he moved down to London with his portfolio and worked in Harrods part time while trying to get work. Eventually he started building up his […]
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Ross Collins
Ross Collins is a well known Children’s Illustrator and Author. Its nice that his website looks quite child friendly too, The characters that appear on there look innocent and welcoming. For the amount of books that hes done illustrations for I would of expected him to be a lot old than he is, but hes […]
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Lars von Trier
Aww! I know this guy! He was in The Perfect Human! Lars von Trier is a Danish Film Director and has been involved in films such as Europea, Dancer in the Dark and Manderlay.”Von Trier suffers from multiple phobias, including an intense fear of flying. As the director once put it, “Basically, I’m afraid of […]
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April Germain
April Germain? Who is she!? I can’t find anything on her! Eap!I think I’ll come back to her later…
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Peter Fowler
His work is cool, but, there’s not really a lot of information if any about any of the pieces in his portfolio, who he’s worked for etc. I think I’m on his website.. Monsterism.com? His websites really cool too, I think its all done on flash.. Perhaps? You can tell he likes is animation/illustration just […]
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Johnathan Barnbrook
I really like his homepage. Its basically made up of links at the top of the page and taking up most of the page is a kind of mission statement. It starts off with telling the viewer what they are looking at, which is Barnbrook Design, and then tells you what Barnbrook design does. I […]
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Yugo Nakamura
Yugo Nakamura was born in Japan in 1970 and is a creative director, designer and engineer. So far in his career has has been internationally awarded Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and an NY ADC. He graduated from the school of engineering in Tokyo in 1996 and went to to build large scale structures before […]
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Susan Kare
I really like her home page! Oh no wait its under construction haha damn. Well what she’s done so far is good! I’ve managed to find out some more stuff about her though from elsewhere. She used to work for Apple Computers between the years of 1983 and 1986 as an icon and font designer […]
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Danny Brown
The following quote is taken from http://www.danielbrowns.com/ – “Daniel Brown is a designer, programmer and artist, specializing in the fields of Creative Digital Technology and Interactive Design and Applied Arts.” I think that pretty much sums up what he does :). His website’s pretty plain though, doesn’t really make you want to read it. As […]
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Hi-Res
Woah. Lots off flashing circles! There isn’t really much information about Hi-Res on their website but they have an archive of all the companies they have worked with. Hi-Res appear to specialise in Film, Fashion, Television, Music, Cars and Print. They have worked alongside PSP, MTV, Lexus the makers of the film Saw and Ugly […]
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John Lawrence
I think I’m just in a funny mood today when it comes to illustrations. None of the illustrations that I’ve researched today seem to appeal to me? Which is a bit strange. But 100% opinion, I’m sorry! John Lawrence is yet another person that works for Warner books, and he has contributed to over 100 […]
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Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze, born in 1969 in Maryland, America. He’s a director of music videos, film, television and commercials. He has also been credited as co-creator of MTV’s Jackass. Oh my goodness this if well cool! Spike Jonze is the reason why Fatboy Slim made the ‘Praise You’ music video (The one where a load of […]
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Neville Brody
Neville Brody is an English Graphic Designer that is known for being the Art Director for ‘The Face’ Magazine and ‘Arena’ Magazine. I looks to me like Brody has done a bit of everything. He’s designed record covers for bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, he was a founding member of Fontworks […]
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Why Not Associates
Good, an upto date website! With a mission statement.. Amazing. This quote is taken from it within the website – “why not associates is a British graphic design company with global reach. we turn our passion for design into commercial success for clients in business, government and the public sector.”Why not associates’ recent work includes […]
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Vaughan Oliver
Vaughan Oliver is a Graphic Designer based in South West London. He’s best known for creating album covers for bands like the one on the right that he did for the Pixies in 2004. I like the harshness that the black creates against the yellow and the way that it’s softened a little by the […]
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The Chase
Chase design instantly interests me, is it bad to like packaging? I love things like this, its what I want to do when I’m older! There must be so much research that goes into packaging design, because after all, not matter how good a product is, if it doesn’t stand out to the consumer as […]
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Ian Pollock
Ian Pollock, born in 1950, lived Cheshire and attended Cheadle Hulme High School where he described himself has a “no-hoper” until he dropped Maths for Art. He then went on to do a Foundation at Manchester College of Art and Design and went on to gain other degrees at various polytechnics around England. Since then […]
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Jonny Hannah
Another person who works for Warner Books, I might actually research this company as a whole if I have time. He’s produced one book called Hot Jazz Special which was published in 2005. The image above is a page taken from that book. Jonny Hannah attended Liverpool Art School and then the Royal College of […]
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Designers Republic
Argh! The line spacing on this website is stressing me out. There’s no real composition to the layout at all. And the links are all too close together! I like little flashing man though. So far from the home page I can see one piece of work which is a projection similar to an artist […]
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David Hughes
David Hughes is an Illustrator, like Joel Stewart he works for Warner Books and is known for the childrens’s picture book ‘Bully’ which he recieved a Smarties Book Prize in 1993. I really like the layout of his website, especially his biography, there are crossings out and scribbles here and there, which to me, makes […]
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Michael Gondry
This had to be put in my blog when I found found out Michael Gondry directed it – I love this song! He was born in 1963 in France and has won various Awards crediting his screenwriting, film, music video directing and commercials. I love the way that its just of a point of view […]
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Kyle Cooper
Kyle Cooper is another Artist that is known for his work in film. He specialises in title sequences, examples include Flubber (1997), Spiderman 1 and 2 (2002 and 2004) and Dawn of the dead (2004). Below is the title sequence to Spiderman 2. Its not that long so you should watch it :)! I really […]
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Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart is an Illustrator and bases much of his work round children’s picture books, he’s also working on some of his own at the moment. He currently works for a company called Warner Books. The thing that really surprised me is that he was working for them even before he finished his honours degree […]
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Lauren Child
Lauren Child was born in 1967 and is known for her illustrations and childrens books she has written. Looking at her biography her work bloomed in early 2000. Her illustrations for the ‘Charlie and Lola’ books have been so successful that they are now being made into a cartoon series for CBBC. Lauren also works […]
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J Otto Seibold
J Otto Seibold is best known for the illustrations he was done for children’s books. I went on his Website and its really wacky, its cool though, for a moment I thought I was on the wrong J Otto, but after researching more on other websites it became clear that this was the right one. […]
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David Carson
I have a impression in my mind already just from seeing the entrance page to his website, he seems like he could be a lot of fun to work with. The image is of a little man – that looks like its probably been drawn by a little kid with paint splodges splattered all over […]
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MetaDesign
This Website is a lot different to Tomato, its almost like Pentagram, but easier to navigate around (http://www.metadesign.com/). This is their Mission Statement: “MetaDesign helps organizations accelerate progress toward a better future. We work alongside a broad spectrum of leaders seeking to establish or increase their relevance in people’s lives. We combine research, analysis, technology, […]
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Tomato
Argh! Their website is really difficult! I’m annoyed! I spent about half an hour just trying to work out how to look at their portfolio! And then when I did find out how to do that I then found that there’s hardly any information on them at all. After looking around for a bit I […]
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Ronald Searle
I think I may of heard of Ronald Searle before? When I read his Biography there were certain things that rang bells, for instance, that he became a cartoonist for the Cambridge Daily News. His work actually reminds me of my friend Rachel’s! This piece on the right stood out to me within the rest […]
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Kathleen Hale 1898 – 2000
Kathleen Hale was a British Artist, Illustrator and Childrens Author and is best remembered for the series of books called Orlando the Marmalade Cat. She created the character with a purpose to entertain children at bedtime and these books became classics throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1976, Kathleen recieved an OBE for her efforts […]
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Pentagram
Pentagram looks so professional from the moment i looked at the Website. “Pentagram is organised and run so designers achieve their best – because design at its best satisfies clients” I’d heard of them before and knew that they’re are successful but I’ve never looked at any of the portfolios. You can look at the […]
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Eboy
So Cool! It reminds me of the book ‘Fruits’.. I think its called? Its like a book full of photographs from this place in Japan where everyone dresses a bit like a Manga Cartoon would. I need to buy that soon! I love it already, even from seeing the first picture! I like it because […]
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Saul Bass 1920 – 1996
The first image I saw of Saul Bass’s was a Logo for Kleenex. As well as being a graphic Designer, I found out Bass had become an Academy Winning Film maker. I realised that along side logo designs, Bass also had produced a number of Title Sequences for Films such as “The man with the […]
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Peter Saville
I was instantly impressed with this artist, as I looked on his homepage it reminded me of the Dulux advert where they are talking about colours which work well with one another. The colours on his website achieve just that, they wouldnt be the normal shades that I would pick, but seeing them together working […]
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John Maeda
John Maeda is a known graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist and has been said to be a founding voice for “Simplicity” in the digital age. “Maeda first made his mark by redefining the use of electronic media as a tool for expression for people of all ages and skills.” Maeda earned his PhD […]
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James Jarvis
Born in 1970, James Jarvis is an Illustrator situated in London. James went on to study at University of Brighton and at the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked for international clients such as Sony, Nokia and Parco and contributed to a number of international style publications including The Face, Nova and […]
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