Neville Brody

Neville Brody, a well known English graphic designer, a typographer and an art director. He was born April 23, 1957 in London. He first started selling his designs when he was studying at London College of printing in 1976, where he sold his own designs prints to local gigs. In 1981 he became well known as he started a carear as the art director for ‘The Face’ magazine. Other examples of the work he has done are advertisments, posters for movies, record covers, postage stamps, logos and also created his own fonts.

Image anaylsis

• Intresting layout, uses half the page with a picture then the other half plain white
• Clear and easy to read font
• Different sized letters
• Different coloured letters
• Horisontal and vertical letters
• Close up of a face
• Not much colour, but really stands out
• Smaller images of trainers

• Simple Layout
• Black and white image of a boy as the main focus, which goes with the idea of "face" as the title
• Uses orange and the font colour for the title, which goes well with the background
• The boy looks angry, the word "hard" at the bottom could reflect on his feelings and expression
  
• Black and white magazine article, normaly in colour
• The plus signs help frame the text
• Uses the plus signs oppersite colours from the background, black to white.
• The article is about Brian Eno so Eno is used as the title in big font
• Uses horisontal text
• A quick brief up in the courner
• The image is intresting as Eno is not in focus but the ash tray is, could having something to do with the purpose of the article.
  
  

David Carson

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  David Carson

Born September 8th, 1952 an American graphic designer. He was well known throughout the nineties. It was around 1983 when he first started to experiment with graphic designs and found he had a certain knack for it. He became the art director for a popular magazine Raygun, and created his own typography. He also created his own magazine about surfing, for in 1989 he qualified as the 9th best surfer in the world, the magazine was called ‘Beach’ being a popular surfer really made this magazine popular. Carson work made a huge impact to the world and the people even called his work the grunge era.

Image anaysis.

• Mainly black and white image, but has used brown dull colours.
  Silhouette of man with close up of their hand.
• A lot of writing.
• Writing has different font sizes, appears to be the same style but small font quite difficult to read.
• A really grainy image.
• Quite hard to read at the top.
• A quick breif on the front page.
• Simple but really effective, grabs your attention.

• Clear bold title.
• Colours are sepia.
• Singer as main focus at the bottom of the page in the left corner.
• Writing which is an article on the cover page is in the right corner, opposite to the singer.
• Quite an empty front cover, slightly dull.

• Black and white image, with slight hint of brown on the man.
• Silhouette of the back of a man.
• Simple plain image.
• Empty, lots of space.
• The writing apperas to be following the man, his shadow.
• Writing hard to read, spaced out and different sizes.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass.
Born on May 8, 1920 and died on April 25, 1996 at the age of 75. He was known as a American graphic designer and a Academy Award-winning filmmaker for 40 years, but was known best for his design work on animated motion picture title sequences. He worked with some of Hollywoods greatest filmmakers inclulding Alfred Hitchcook. The man with the golden arm was one of his most famous title sequences in 1955, he was able to grab the viewers attention with just a simple silohette of a twisted arm.

Saul Bass studied at Brooklyn College with Gyorgy Kepes. While living in Hollywood he started doing print work for film ads, until he began work with filmmaker Otto Preminger to design a movie poster for his film Carmen Jones. Bass grabbed Preminger’s attention straight away and got him to produce the title sequence as well. This was the beginning for Bass; he saw this as an opportunity to create more then just title sequences, but to completely enhance the experience of the opening and closings of credits, which would create a different mood and theme for the film from the very beginning.
Analysing his work-

The man with the golden arm

• Bold colours
• Basic shapes
• Similar font to Rockwell
• Silohette of a twisted arm.
  

Anatomy of a murder

• Bold
• Bright colours
• Cut outs
• Simple
• Unique
• Similar font to Rockwell

West side story

• Bold colours
• Bright
• Simple
• Bold text
• Cut outs
• Decayed effect
• Stair images