Masato Nakada is finishing his last year in the graphic design grad program at CalArts. He has recently updated his portfolio which has an extremely fun to use interface (especially if you like google maps) with new graphic works. His portfolio consists of screen printed posters, publications, furniture design, and beautifully done typography.
CalArts launched a brand new website today. The update gives the site a more contemporary look and feel which surpasses the old design. The interface is more interactive and really user friendly. That being said, go click around on the new site! www.calarts.edu
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Welcome to the relaunch. This website has been some time in the making. When we started FISK almost a year ago, it was a spontaneous project… we made the website in one night. This time we put a bit more care in it, making it a resource and place of information for you and us. Although the site is finished we look at it as a constant work in progress. We’re hoping that you all have ideas to contribute to push the site to new levels, whether that be just a quote or a link. This is a collective and it is the people that fuel FISK.
Sincerely,
Bijan & Chris
Lorin Brown is a 23 year old graphic designer from Wayne, PA. He is a recent graduate from CalArts and has worked with GOOD Magazine, Stussy, Faesthetic Magazine, Arkitip, and the New York Times. His area of design interest lies in publication and apparel design. His favorite thing about Valencia isn’t Jack in the Box. He is not married and is inspired by music. This is his interview.
The CalArts AIGA Student Association & The Graphic Design Program present The Annual CalArts T-Shirt Show 2010
Featuring 55 different CalArts t-shirt, tote bag, & hoodie designs by the Graphic Design Program students, faculty, and visiting designers.
All designs are printed on American Apparel garments and FOR SALE in a variety of colors.
CASH ONLY
Monday, May 10th
7:30pm—10:30pm
in the Cafeteria dining hall
Drinks + Music + Ping Pong
Video together by Jesse Lee Stout.
Please email us at info@wearefisk.com if you are interested in receiving a copy. You can view the entire issue digitally by clicking the publications tab at the top.
Editor/Designer: Bijan Berahimi
Assistance: Chris Burnett
Cover Design: Daryn Wakasa
Featuring: Antoine + Manuel, Mr. Keedy, Keetra Dean Dixon and Jennifer McKnight.
Contributors: Ed Fella, Jesse Frankel, Stephen Lee, Pouya Jahanshahi, Mitchel Cox, Laura Bernstein, Andrea Williams, Lorin Brown, Monica Yi, Eileen Hsu, Ben Segall, Ania Diakoff, Kate Johnston, Chris Burnett, Caroline Park, Monica Nascimento, Danae Moore, Masato Nakada, Jessica Huang, Lila Burns, Alejandro Hernandez, Bijan Berahimi, Lucy Cook, Aastha Gaur, Megan Lynch.
FISK
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
Jason Munn is originally from Wisconsin but now calls Oakland, California home. Arising from a love of independent music, design, and making for the sake of making, his posters soon became a fixture in the local independent music scene.
He started The Small Stakes in the fall of 2003, and it has since unfolded into a successful independent design studio, producing nationally and internationally commissioned work in a range of print materials, including book covers, album packaging, T-shirt designs, screen-printed posters, and illustrations.
Jason’s work has appeared in Print, Communication Arts, Step Inside Design, Computer Arts Projects, Étapes, ReadyMade, and Creative Review. His work has also been featured in numerous exhibits and is part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Read the interview after the break.
Public School is a group of creative folk working in Austin, Texas. They recently relaunched their website as an outlet to share things they like. They’re a super inspiring group of guys, they all share a studio working on projects collaboratively as well as independently. It seems like a great environment to work in. We’ll be doing an interview with one of their amazing members named Will Bryant in the upcoming days so look out for it! Mean while, check out their scholastic website at www.gotopublicschool.com.
Huvi is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Manchester UK, run by Adam Robson and Matt Keers.
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Reviews are an extremely stressful time, hopefully this will cheer you up.
This article appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2007/ Winter 2008, Number 27. To order this issue or a subscription, visit the HDM homepage at www.gsd.harvard.edu/hdm.
© 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Not to be reproduced without the permission of the publisher: hdm-rights@gsd.harvard.edu.
Blowfish
What to Do When a Design Jury Attacks by Ray Chung, Josh Comaroff, and the GSD Classes of 1999 and 2000
Note: Blowfishwere first developed at the GSD by the classes of 1999 and 2000, especially Ray Chung and Josh Comaroff, as a way of making fun of the pretensions and relieving the stresses students face when they present their architecture, landscape architecture, or urban design final work to a “jury” of five to ten prestigious professionals.
Peter Kaplan is a designer and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a designer in the Student Affairs department at California Institute of the Arts where he handles printed collateral for the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (Redcat). Peter also teaches typography and publication design at CalArts.
Could you start off by telling us what you were doing before CalArts and how you got into graphic design?
Yes I can, I studied graphic design for my undergrad at the University of Delaware and worked as a designer in NY for about seven years following school. That was when I applied to CalArts.
Maxime Francout AKA Max F. is a French illustrator/designer living and working in Montreal, Canada. He loves fine art, design, drawn typography, and illustration. He makes drawings, paintings, t-shirts, books, magazines and exhibitions. Besides that, he hearts skateboarding, ping-pong and chai lattes.
When did you first discover that you wanted to do design/illustration for a living?
I discovered lately that I could and that I wanted to do design. I first started as a colorist for comic books in France, and as an illustrator for children’s books before I got to a more personal and underground production. It took me some time to master this style that has emerged over the time. Initially I’m just someone who likes to draw on a street corner. I grew up surrounded by the skateboarding culture influenced by people like Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton and Fost. Gradually I was able to establish partnerships with clients in time and consider a career in design and art. It’s not difficult to be an artist but living off your art is something different. Personally I’m not entirely living off my work because I don’t want to do compromises on my drawings, I don’t have enough fame to sell expensive pieces of art, besides I’m not even sure that i want to. I see art and design as something fun, I don’t really take it seriously and I think I’d quit if I did.
Design Books I Heart
A jumbled selection of books that during my education as a graphic designer have been influential, informative, inspirational, or just intriguing, and perhaps interesting to the next generation of graphic designers… Some of these publications can be found and purchased cheaply at bookfinder.com, especially the paperbacks. I’ve written short articles for Eye magazine about the Paulo Soleri book, Compendium for Literates and Right On!
I Seem To Be A Verb by Buckminster Fuller, designed by Quentin Fiore, 1970
Below is a selection of covers and spreads from various promotional literature for salesmen dated anywhere from 1950 to 1979.
I chose these images because they represent my interests in work that calls into question conventions of beauty. Of course those conventions are always under scrutiny and the definition is difficult to “fix,” but M/M Paris (Mathias Augustyniak, Michaël Amzalag, mmparis.com); Cyan (Daniela Haufe, Detlef Fiedler, cyan.de); (Richard) Niessen & (Esther) de Vries, niessendevries. nl; Tomato (Steve Baker, Dirk van Dooren, Karl Hyde, Richard Smith, Simon Taylor, John Warwicker, Graham Wood, Jason Kedgley, Michael Horsham, www.tomato.co.uk) and Vier5 (Marco Fiedler, Achim Reichert, vier5.de) deal with conventions as a central component of their practice. The resulting work is not so much a conscious effort to “deliver the goods” per se, but an effort to tackle the bigger issues of how to present their [respective] conception of form in a way that responses to contemporary culture.
Robert Rauschenberg: Booster, 1967. April Greiman: Design Quarterly 133, 1987.
Below is a collection of layouts from an old exhibition in Tehran showing various graphic design from Iran in the 1980′s. Enjoy.
