10 Designs that Illustrate my Fields of Creative Interest

10 Designs that illustrate my fields of creative interest:

As previously shown in the five things that inspire me, Alex Trochut’s book ‘More is More’. It is the whole book, publishing, layout and content that really interests me. Its cover appears to be a plain green until put into a darkened room where an intricate pattern starts to glow. Internally the layout of the work alongside the text works very well and the work itself is also very visually and technically appealing.

These images are of work produced by a Spanish graphic design studio, called Losiento. This interests me because of its innovative creation of a 3D type that was subsequently photographed and used in a publication.

This work is a screen print by illustrator Tim McDonagh. I saw this work whilst down at ‘Pick me up London’ and just really enjoy the quality of the illustration as well as his choice of colours. I bought this print as well as another similar piece of a woman with flowers in her hair and a space invader on her forehead.

These two pieces of work interest me through their simplistic yet powerful appearance. Both pieces produced by designer Shepard Fairey. The first, one of his earlier pieces, was a sticker campaign that grew and developed into a brand that now produces clothing, amongst other things. The second, a piece he produced to aid the Obama election campaign, has a similar subtly to it however they both still have an authoritative feel to them. Shepard Fairey was the first graphic designer I became interested in and it is his very distinguishable style and brand that interest me.

This is a website layout that I only discovered very recently. It is the website of the design agency Menosunocerouno and it was the clean, crisp aesthetic, alongside the selection of images, as well as the human interaction that caught my eye and is what interests me.

This well-known typography piece by Craig Ward interests me through its witty tone of voice, the contrast and juxtaposition of the words and the typeface. The meaning, of and behind the work, is an important interest to me.

  

This is an advert created by KitKat using there well-known phrase – take a break – and applying it to current events. This advert was produced within a day of the longest ever match Wimbledon has ever seen, between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut. It is the simple image accompanied by the simple type that perfectly gets across the message of KitKat and it is that combination that interests me. This image also contains some of the witty tone of voice that interests me.

Il Pleut is a poem by the French poet Apollinaire. It is not so much the content of this poem that interest me, but more the visual layout and how a poem, about rain, appears to be running down the page.

This final image is an Esquire magazine cover, produced in April 1968, by George Lois. One of the reasons I am interested in this is the concept of posing Muhammad Ali - the heavy weight champion of the world - as the martyr St. Sebastian, when Ali refused to be drafted into the army. This was an incredibly bold decision by Esquire and Lois to create and publish such a controversial image and that is something that really interests me – the ability to be controversial and bold, whilst producing creative and innovative work.