Simply Complicated™

The basics of graphic design with emphasis on logo. A class for Portfolio Center.

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Make the logo bigger

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Is that you Chris? Who are the other two? Michelle and Holly?

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August 21st, 2008 at 3:23 am

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Some contemporary designers worth checking…

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M/M
Karel Martens
Non-Format
Siggi Eggertsson
Peter Rentz
Richard Sarson
Daniel Eatock
Siggi Odds
Karpa
Mike Young
Experimental Jetset
Linda Van Deursen

Here’s some stuff that I’ve been liking:

Old Post about influences.

What you think? Add your own!

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August 7th, 2008 at 3:51 am

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Faces with forms

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Rachel Anscher, Abby Brewster, Holly S. Fisher, Jessica Gavit, Michelle Haft, Erick Montes-Montenegro, Leilani Silversten, Chris Thompson and Brooks Wheeler

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July 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 am

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Geoporn from the past

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Geometry of Circles is a series of unnumbered animation pieces created for Sesame Street in 1979 with music by Philip Glass.

From 1+1=3.

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July 12th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

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Simply Complicated. New Class.

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New class! New people! Rachel Anscher, Abby  Brewster, Holly S. Fisher, Jessica Gavit, Michelle Haft, Erick Montes-Montenegro, Leilani Silversten, Chris Thompson, and Brooks Wheeler.

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July 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am

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Logo emergency. Final assignment.

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For our final project, there are three corporate logos that need your help.

The first two, at&t and xerox are going through mid-life crisis, they went from muscle to plastic surgery. The third one, ebay, was just born a typographic flipper baby.

You have a free range. Geometric shapes, colors, Futura… or not. Stay grounded in what we’ve learned and experimented with so far, but other than that, you’re on your own.

I want to see preliminary work for all logos for this Thursday 0501.

Next week we’ll do a class critique at Armchair.

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April 30th, 2008 at 2:15 am

International Paper Company

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Perfect contrast for scalability. Thickest at 1 unit black, thinnest at 1/4 white.

Originally posted by the amazing Maryellen McFadden on flickr. Go spend time on her stream for immaculately selected images of graphic design.

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April 29th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

More geo goodness from time gone by

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Go here.

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April 23rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm

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April 22 assignment

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Please post your 5 patterns and Armchair logo here.

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April 22nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm

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World Of Logotypes, by Al Cooper

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Download here.

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April 15th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

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