Jonathan Ive - Contemporary designer.
Jonathan Paul Ive, CBE is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, and all of the aluminum and titanium Apple products.
Jonathan was born in Chingford, Essex in February 1967. He was raised by his teacher father and attended Chingford Foundation School. He then studied Industrial Design at Northumbria University
Probably most famous contemporary designer in recent times
Probably the most famous contemporary designer in recent times. Jonathan Ive, is a product designer, rather than a graphic designer, but you cannot exclude the work of such an influential creative, from this area..
After a short time at the London design agency Tangerine, he moved to the United States in 1992 to pursue his career at Apple. He gained his current job title upon the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, and since then has headed the Industrial Design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products.
The candy colour on the first iMac model is called Bondi Blue, a reference to the color of the water at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
The Bondi blue iMac was replaced with five fruit colours in Blueberry, Grape, Tangerine, Lime, and Strawberry. Two of these, Tangerine and Blueberry, became the first colours for the iBook. Blueberry was also the colour for the Blue and White Power Mac G3 and its displays.
2001 was a very important time as Apples design direction lead by Ives switched away from its plastic translucent multi colour, to a more minimalist approach with the motif appearing in industrial grade metal, Titanium and Aluminum. The minimalist consumer design debuted with the ibook G3, and featured glossy white colouring and opaque finishes. Gone were the soft bulging shapes as the move towards streamlined minimalism was gathering momentum.
The designs appear to have been heavily influenced by German industrial designer Dieter Rams.
The designs appear to have been heavily influenced by German industrial designer Dieter Rams. with a clear example being the iPhone calculator application, which appears to have been directly influenced by Dieter Rams' 1978 Braun Control ET44 calculator.
The iPod continued the look of the consumer line, featuring an opaque, white front. The success and wide embrace of Apple's iPod appeared to have had an effect on Ive and his design team, and some noted the striking similarity of the iPod's design with the subsequent iMac G5 and Mac Mini designs. Apple even promoted the release of the iMac G5 as coming "from the creators of iPod," and, in the accompanying promotional photographs, both products were shown next to each other in profile, highlighting the similarities in their design.. The more recent designs have continued this trend toward a simple rounded-rectangle styling.
The most recent designs move away from white plastics, replacing them with glass and aluminum. This new design phase showed Apple's strive towards extreme minimalism, its aluminum products possess cleaner,
yet softer and more tapered edges than those of their predecessors, and remove anything that does not need to be there. I find that this style is linked to the Swiss style of graphic design that was developed between 1920-1965.
The Daily Telegraph rated him as the most influential Briton in America
Apples most recent designs are milled out of one piece of aluminum, this reduces size, number of parts required and rigidity although i am not convinced about the size issue as my Macbook Pro is huge.
The Sunday Times named Ive as one of Britain's most influential expatriates on 27 November 2005. "Ive may not be the richest or the most senior figure on the list, but he has certainly been one of the most influential... The man who designed the iPod and many more of Apple's most iconic products has shaken up both the music and the electronics industry." Ive was number three on a list of 25.
Ive was also listed in the 2006 New Years Honours List list, receiving a CBE, for services to the design industry. The British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II was revealed as being an iPod owner in June 2005.
It has been suggested that when Steve Jobs steps down that Ives would be a popular candidate for the position of CEO at Apple.
Ives received the 2007 National Design Award in the product design category for his work on the iphone. The Daily Telegraph rated him as the most influential Briton in America in January 2008. In May 2009, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Rhode Island school of Design. He is married to his wife Heather and lives in San Francisco with their twin sons.
Characteristics of Postmodernism
As part of this contemporary study i am required to research the double coding, revivalism, radical eclecticism, pastiche and parody associated with Postmodernism. We have been asked to find an artist from our path way that we can relate their work to these various characteristics.
For this exercise i have choosen the artist Milton Glazer for reasons i will define. Here are some examples of his work that i have researched.
milton glaser
I Heart Iraq
While the New York Times generally doesn’t publish pictures of U.S. casualties in its own reporting, it can publish them when the photos themselves are the story (particularly on a Saturday.) The commander of the U.S. Marines in Iraq is seeking to bar photographer Zoriah Miller from all U.S. military facilities around the world for publishing photos on his web site of U.S. Marines (oh, and Iraqi civilians) killed in a June 26, 2008 suicide attack in Garma, Iraq. “Disembedding” journalists and otherwise “managing” them for publishing unfavorable coverage is nothing new. The Committee to Protect Journalists has chronicled ongoing harassment and deaths of journalists in Iraq and BAGnewsNotes has done an excellent job of unpacking the photographs that do make it out.
Looking into Miller’s own portfolio site this image caught my attention:
It has a Banksy-like irony to it
It has a Banksy-like irony to it: juxtaposing tools of authoritarian force with the values they are rhetorically professed to deliver — and with a faint whiff of commercialism. The vehicle above is a Iraqi Soviet-model MT-LB multi-purpose armored personnel carrier, most likely tagged, I suspect, by a U.S. soldier. But paint that slogan on an U.S. Abrams, and it makes a good stencil idea. ref (www.backspace.com)
Milton Glazer was born 26.6.1929 in new york.
he studied (1948–51)at the cooper union art school and
(1952–53), as a fulbright scholar, attended the academy of
fine arts, bologna, italy under giorgio morandi.
from 1954 to 1974 glaser was the founder and president
of the ‘push pin’ studio (with semour chwast, reynold ruffins
and edward sorel) in new york and from 1955 to 1974 the editor
and co-art director of the ‘push pin graphic’ magazine.
in an era dominated by swiss rationalism, this eclectic
while it introduced a distinctly contemporary design vocabulary,
with a wide range of work that included record sleeves, books,
posters, logos, font design and magazine formats.
in 1968, glaser and clay felker founded ‘new york magazine’.
glaser was president and design director until 1977
(as well as its ‘underground gourmet’ - writing about good,
cheap restaurants in N Y). publication design had become
a big interest.
since founding milton glaser, inc. in 1974, milton glaser, inc.,
the work produced at his manhattan studio has encompassed
a wide range of design disciplines - print graphics:
identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes,
logos (among them the ‘I love new york’ logo for the new york state
department of commerce, that became the most frequently
imitated logo design in human history).
department of commerce
he has designed and illustrated more than 300 posters
(remember his bob dylan poster for CBS records?);
environmental and interior design: exhibitions, interiors and
exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels,
and other retail and commercial environments.
from 1975 to 1977 milton glaser was the design director of
‘village voice’ magazine.
in 1983 he founded the company WBMG, a studio dedicated to
magazine and newspaper design work, with walter bernard
(former art director of ‘time’). since its inception, they have
designed more than 50 magazines, newspapers and periodicals
around the world : among them ‘la vanguardia’ in barcelona,
‘o globo’ in rio de janeiro, l’espresso in rome ‘the washington post’,
‘money’, the french ‘the nation’, ‘paris match’, ‘l´express’, ‘esquire’,
‘jardin des modes’, and ‘business tokyo’ in japan.
from the start of his career, milton glaser has been an active
member of both the design and education communities:
he taught design at the school of visual arts in new york
in one of america’s most respected programs.
milton glaser has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the
centre georges pompidou, paris; the lincoln center gallery, new york;
the houghton gallery at the cooper union, new york;
the AIGA gallery in new york; the philadelphia museum of art,...
his work is included in the permanent collections of many
international art museums. smithsonian's cooper-hewitt
national design museum has chosen milton glaser to receive the
2004 national design award. ref (www.designboom.com)
The name of the band was originally inspired by a racehorse called Archduke Ferdinand. After seeing the horse win the Northumberland Plate in 2001, the band began to discuss Archduke Franz Ferdinand and thought it would be a good band name because of the alliteration of the name and the implications of the Archduke's death (his assassination was a significant factor in the lead up to World War I).
"Mainly we just liked the way it sounded," says Bob. "We liked the alliteration." "He was an incredible figure as well," continues Alex. "His life, or at least the ending of it, was the catalyst for the complete transformation of the world ... he was a pivot for history. But I don't want to over-intellectualize the name thing. Basically a name should just sound good ... like music." Paul has a more cynical notion. "I like the idea that, if we become popular, maybe the words Franz Ferdinand will make people think of the band instead of the historical figure."
The song "Take Me Out", on the band's first album, was the second single to be released by the band. The single release of "Take Me Out" came with the B-side, "All for You Sophia", based on the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, whose name was Sophie, not Sophia. The band chose the name Sophia rather than Sophie to give the song a better ring. The song mentions the assassin Gavrilo Princip, the Black Hand, the location of the Apple Quay and "Urban" (Franz Urban), the name often mistakenly given to Leopold Lojka, the driver of the car.
In addition to this, in 2004 the band played a number of "secret" gigs under the pseudonym "The Black Hands", alluding to the secret society that was held responsible for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
The cover to "You Could have had it so much better"
The band is notable for its use of Russian avant-garde imagery in album and single covers. Examples include: "You Could Have It So Much Better", which references a 1924 portrait of Lilya Brik by Alexander Rodchenko; "Take Me Out", which references One-Sixth Part of the World, also by Alexander Rodchenko; "This Fire" which references Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by El Lissitzky; and "Michael", with single art based on A Proun by Lissitzky. The song "Love and Destroy" was inspired by the scene of disorder made by Margarita, a character of Michael Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", in the apartment of the literature critic Latunzky.
Also, in "Outsiders", the lyrics "In seventeen years will you still be Camille, Lee Miller, Gala or whatever" are a reference to the lovers of the artists Auguste Rodin, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí.
Minimalism
A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colours, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. It is sometimes called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art.
Precursors to Minimalism include the Russian Suprematists, such as Kasimir Malevich (Russian, 1878-1935).
Penny Slinger- I Hear What You Say
Penny Slinger first discovered her artistic identity in Surrealism. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 1969 with a First Class Honors degree in Fine Art. She wrote her thesis on the work of Surrealist artist Max Ernst, in particular his surreal collages of engravings, namely ‘La Femme Sans Tete’ and ‘Une Semaine de Bonte’. She was fascinated by the seamless creation of mythological anthropomorphic figures in urban settings where the forces of nature disrupted the status quo.
The work which composed Penny’s graduation exhibit at Chelsea set the trend for her art of the next several years. Although her desire to use many different media had been a challenge to the different departments of the College, her final exhibit was heralded as a ‘celebration’. Life casts of herself and her models were featured as sculpture, but also broke through from her canvases provocatively and defiantly. She blended painting with printmaking and photography, assemblage and construction with life casts and multi media. Penny wanted to use the tools of surrealism to probe the feminine psyche. To this end her theme was often one of self examination and reflection, and she often used herself as her own model. She hand bound a copy of her first book of photographic collage‘50% The Visible Woman’ as part of her diploma exhibit.
The fruits of her surrealist period were shown in a series of exhibitions and in the publication of books of photographic collage. During this period she also worked in theatre and in film, being part of the all-woman theatre group ‘Holocaust’. She performed in and art directed their film ‘The Other Side of the Underneath’.
Penny’s blend of innovation and provocation made quite a stir on the London art scene in the 1970s. The support of such distinguished figures as Sir Roland Penrose, then head of the Institute of Contemporary Art and her patron during these years, made her art difficult to dismiss, even for those it disturbed.
Penny Slinger is a surrealist artist and author who has produced fine art in many media including paintings, drawings, collage, installations,etc. From 1980 to 1994, she lived in the Carribbean and was deeply influenced by and influenced the local culture... ancient and modern. She did extensive work on paintings of the extinct Arawak people- the original inhabitants of the Caribbean.www.arawakart.com
No comments:
Post a Comment