Personal Six Graphic Designers

 This first piece of graphic design is created by artist and designer, Jamie Reid, he is considered to be the graphical voice of British punk. I like his work as it daring and out of the ordinary. For example in this piece, even though it is a picture of the Queen with typography over her eyes and mouth and creates a piece that almost makes you not want to look at it, the viewer is still drawn in to observe the piece whether they want to or not, this is perhaps why it was so successful as the cd cover for the Sex Pistols.

 This piece of artwork is created by graphic designer Ed Fella. I really appreciate his use of colour and I think that this makes his work very captivating for the viewer. When I first looked at this piece of artwork I just wanted to keep observing it more and more. This is definitely to do with the colours used and the way they are used such as the complex blending. However the captivation it creates I feel also has something to do with the composition and the way in which the letters are written. They are quite flowing and free, and this is also reflected effectively in the colours used too.

 The third piece of artwork is created by the fine artist Edward McKnight Kauffer who designed posters for airlines. I really like the thought that has gone into this piece, one can really appreciate what the designer has been thinking about. For example the colours, composition and typography have clearly all been thought about very carefully. It creates calm and welcoming feelings to San Francisco and the text American Airlines at the top appear italic, as though the text is on a journey too.

 This fourth piece of artwork is created by Alphonse Mucha, one of the most important painters of French Art Nouveau. I have always liked and appreciated Mucha's artwork. This is because of one the aspects in which he makes his work his own, this being the fact that he uses a thin black or brown outline around the whole image. This draws the viewer in and I also feel that it separates the foreground happenings to the background ones. This needs to be the case in graphic design, as if all aspects of the piece are all the boldest and brightest, the viewer does not know where to look first and is therefore most likely to be put off by it.

 This fifth piece of work is by Otl Aicher and is good at creating graphic design to use in visual communication. He is probally best known for designing the pictograms for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games which can be seen above. I like this work as it is designed to catch the eye, however is also simple and understandable which was a very important aspect when designing for an Olympic Games as one has to be sure that everyone else can understand your design.

Finally the sixth piece of graphic design work was created by Pentagram. The company have a wide range of clients and design success, creating work for companies such as Penguin, British Airways and Kodak. I like the above piece created by Pentagram as it is plain and simple but effective and to the point, most people have heard of penguin books.