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I Love to make desktop backgrounds so and I recently got duel monitors at work…

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So guess what! the lack of need for this site to be business related has really freed me up for some cool stuff.  I don’t even have to worry about others thoughts on it from a business stand point.  Continue Reading »

I hold mine high and say RIGHT HERE! I think that keeping your thoughts together is a great way to garner not only creativity but ideas worth a darn. I was fortunate to have had a teacher that forced us to use a sketch book what I did not realize is that he was creating not only a life long habit but a addiction. I love the fact that just about any client I have can look through my sketch books and see the humble beginnings of the project I worked on for them (though I do not let them do this.)Also it is kind of a legacy I am leaving to my children if they want to know dad or grandpaw or at least something about him just read his sketch books. I am even fortunate enough to have sketch books I filled when I was 10-11 with comics about Germs and Noses. Continue Reading »

What does the Girl Scouts of America, Japan Energy Corporation, Minolta, United Way, Alfred Hitchcock, Warner Bros, United airlines, At&t, South Western Bell, & Motion Graphics have in common… One man Saul Bass.

Saul Bass was a graphic designer and academy award winning film maker who lived from 1920-1996. His work is still used today from the Girl Scouts of America (their logo is still the original he designed ) to The At&t globe which has recently been updated because of there merger with Cingular. His At&t logo reached 93% recognition in the united states.

I don’t know about you but if any work you do ever reaches that kind of recognition then you have done more than what you were hired for although this is the goal with every project. I think Saul Bass fascinates us because what he started out in as just a profession became a medium for him to present ideas and concepts also a creative outlet that allowed him the unadulterated freedom to create work that enhanced everything from the movie experience to his own work in film and animation.

I love his work because of its simple and straight forward graphics that some how truly speak a thousand+ words. Take his title sequence for the man with the golden arm. The rectangles always appearing oblique almost imposing on the actual titles. It seamed to me that the shapes were always trying to line up with horizontal and vertical lines of type yet always choosing instead to be slightly off the mark. It also reminds me of Jazz’s perfect imperfection where every one will be on beat then one or 2 instruments might sock the beat in the face a few times only to stand it back up and keep on moving thought the beat. Then as if he had not eluded enough to the struggle that would be portrayed in this 1950’s film the center image is an abstraction of a heroin addicts arm. WONDERFUL WORK.

See the title sequence here.

So I will end this post with a picture of Saul Bass and a note to please check out the rest of his work and have a great day

If you could visit the website of a designer that was mentioned among such greats as Saul Bass and William Caslon then you should visit Milton Glaser’s website. He has made design his medium for life. This is the man behind such images as The I Heart NY logo and the DC comic’s bullet logo used from 1977-2005. Though I have not heard the recognition of the I Heart N Y Logo but I am sure that any one in America can tell you what that logo means. I would assume that it has reached a higher recognition rate than the south western bell logo which in its day was at a 90% recognition. that means out of 100 people only 10 did not know what that logo meant. So here is to you Milton Glaser I can only hope to reach in my carrier the level you have reached in yours and truly we do Heart NY.