Street art or guerilla marketing, whatever you want to call it. I like it. I’ve been contemplating a new Street Art campaign for Breezy Creative Design onto the city streets of Chicago, It’s been in the brain vault for some months now. Just as I was feeling re-inspired, I stumbled onto WarrenPeace as I was [...]
One of world famous artist and graphic designer Robert Brownjohn’s last pieces of work, Peace? poster designed in 1970, shortly before his death August 1, 1970. Political war poster? aimed at the un-attainability of peace. Born in New Jersey, Brownjohn moved to New York to pursue his graphic design career after attending the Institute of [...]
How can a multi-billion dollar organization base their identity off of a second? Answer: “it’s a second done in 34 years” says Paula Scher for her napkin sketch of the Citi logo. The questioning came when Paula Scher first introduced her initial sketch of the Citi logo on a napkin during a client meeting. At [...]
While doing some information gathering about the Citi logo by Paula Scher, I stumbled onto this video that cleverly and rapidly illustrates the history of Pentagram. A familiar voice tells the tale about the company, none other than Paula Scher, partner at Pentagram. Others partners appear here and there too. A total of 16 partners [...]
The Visiting Artist Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology was started in 2001 by Rocco Piscatello. An adjunct assistant professor since 1994 at the FIT and principal of Piscatello Design Centre. The goal of the Visiting Artist Program is to provide students with access to distinguished guests such as; Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Ivan [...]
Stefan Kanchev is considered one of the best identity and trademark designers of all time, up on the list with Paul Rand and Saul Bass. Born 1915 in Kalofer, Bulgaria, most of his work was designed for clients in Europe, designs unlike any I have seen that have been lost over time. Not having the [...]
