April 25th, 2010
by Bijan
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.
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April 8th, 2010
by Bijan
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.
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April 6th, 2010
by Bijan
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
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March 14th, 2010
by Bijan
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.
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January 27th, 2010
by Bijan
“All my life I’ve kept scrapbooks, collected printed material, books, posters, pages, cards, bits and pieces…always with the intention of getting back to it someday. Frequently I do, but the material keeps piling up, way beyond anything I’ll ever need or use…here’s an opportunity to do something with some of it: post it and pass it on.” -Ed Fella
A detail from a 1930 Norman Rockwell illustration: A determined art student…could be Miss Lucy (coming up next…)
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January 24th, 2010
by Bijan
The Australian show Designer People did an episode on Ed Fella who is faculty in the graphic design program at CalArts.
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December 17th, 2009
by Bijan
FISK Holiday Zine 2009 featuring: Neil Doshi, Chris Burnett, Kate Johnston, Jesse Lee Stout, Ania Diakoff, Monica Yi, Bijan Berahimi, Lorin Brown, Sheli Ben-Ner, Masato Nakato, Scott Barry, Lila Burns, Aastha Gaur, Matthew Davis, Jason Lee, Pouya Jahanshahi, Piper Hughes, Phil Shaw, Caroline Park, Alejandro Hernandez, Megan Lynch, Daniel Corrigan, Zack Sekuler, Zack Roberson and Ed Fella.
View the entire zine, spread by spread below. Enjoy, Happy Holidays and New Year.
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