Task 1 Analysing 4 designers

Herbert Bayer, born in 1900, is an Austrian graphic designer. He uses  paint, photography and sculpting. Since he was a designer all his life, through one of the time periods that changed man most, his style varies significantly.  On some of his works he uses bright piercing colours. On others it's black and white, so it varies a lot. His main image in the work is normally taking up the entirety of the page or very spread out leaving not very much negative space. His influences may have included Georg Schmidthammer, who he was an apprentice architect to. Or Walter Gropius, who Bayer became interested in. He was also influenced by World War Two,seeing as his work changed drastically afterwards  He used paint, photography and sculpting mostly. 










M C Escher, born 17 June 1898, is a Dutch graphic artist. He didn’t use typography instead he drew graphical illusions. A lot of his works are limited to black and white, he does use paint in some of his works. Since a lot of his works are pictures of towns and cities, there isn’t a lot of negative spacing. In other works, there is negative spacing mostly around the outside of the work. It is said that Escher is was maybe influenced by middle eastern art because of the tessellations he used. He used a lot of different techniques in his works including pencils, lithographs, woodcuts and tessellations. He also has a strong mathematical presence in his work. His philosophy could be “I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well" which is a famous quote of his. The most prominent design element is probably the use of maths and geometry to create illusions and imagery.Vault49 is a boutique design, illustration and photography studio hailing from London and now based out of New York. Founded in 2002 by Jonathan Kenyon and John Glasgow, the Vault studio produces award-winning work for a variety of eminent commercial and private clients worldwide. The typography they use in some of their work is not computer generated, instead they use paint for their sets or actually make the words into 3D models they then take photos of. Their other work is made on a computer and is quite isometric. They use quite bright colours, and incorporate a lot of different colours into one piece of work. The space technique they use is condensing the main image so all the positive space is compacted into the middle and the negative space creates a sort of border. Their Media used is photo sets that they have built and painted themselves, making a very strong 3D effect. They also use computers to make isometric looking designs. Their philosophy is probably “Vault49 is an artistic collaboration, a playground, and a creative incubator for innovative design projects. We adapt our approach to each and every brief and bring an open mind to all our projects.”


Sabrina Ward Harrison, born 1975 is a Canadian artist. She uses a messy, hand written looking font in a lot of her works. A lot of her works the main image is in the centre leaving the negative space around the outside of the image like a border. Her influences may include Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Kurt Schwitters, all of which are mixed media artists. She uses paint as a technique media and quite often uses splatters or random splatters. She also uses a lot of typography which is also messy. Her design philosophy is probably “learned from my mom that you can design an entire room from a single leaf. The leaf or tree can incorporate such a distinct palette of corresponding colours. You can really find complimentary tones in almost anything.” Her most significant feature is probably the overall messiness of her work.


Task 1 Bibliography:
http://www.fountainmagazine.com/Issue/detail/The-Influence-of-Islamic-Art-on-MC-Escherhttp://www.mcescher.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escherhttp://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery.htmhttp://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sabrina-ward-harrisons-colorfu-153192http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Ward_Harrisonhttp://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sabrina%20ward%20harrisonhttp://pinterest.com/rinib/lovely-art-sabrina-ward-harrison/http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/46142.Sabrina_Ward_Harrisonhttp://www.vault49.com/http://www.debutart.com/illustration/vault49#/illustrationhttp://www.clickforart.com/Artist/vault49http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkthishttp://www.aboutus.org/Vault49.com

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