Paul Davis

Paul Davis was the illustrator who created Us and them, ‘what the Americans think of us and what we think of them’ the book contains hilarious illustrations from Davis, they are simply drawn and have hand written type, would like to look into this as I am really interested in simple hand drawn images I will look into his illustrations as I think they will be a huge inspiration for my work.

Designers Republic

The designers republics are a group of Graphic Designers who create visual imaging for certain clients which vary from different areas, I have decided to look at their designs for the band Pulp.
The image I have chosen is the logo for the band, I like the way it is created by using a thick pipe text. The logo is illustrative and digitalised which interests me. Although I like the logo this has not inspired me as the illustration for the CD cover caught my eye, it is hand drawn and is a lifelike / cartoon portrait of the band this is to communicate with their fans in a different and fun way which interests me for my own project.
This research has contributed to my work in the sense that I will create real images in an illustrative way to promote sound as do Pulp.

Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds briefly studied fine art, swapping to graphic design,
She had her own weekly strip-cartoon in the Guardian and also contributed filler drawings for a range of feature articles in the paper and in 1987 she started to write and illustrate children's fiction.
Posey creates ‘Cartoon’ strips using illustrative hand drawings and type, her drawing I am looking at is a cartoon strip from the Guardian and shows the story of a woman using visual images and text to direct the viewer through the story.
Her work has not completely inspired me for my own designs, as I like her work but do not want my book to go fully in this cartoon strip direction. I will use her work to help me create a book which uses illustrations and small amounts of type to tell a story which the viewer fully understands.

El Lissitsky’

El Lissitsky’ was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. He was one of the most important figures of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his friend and mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designed numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the former Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus, Constructivist, and De Stijl movements and experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th century graphic design.

Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a graphic designer who works with graphs and is informational graphic artist, histograms, trend lines, scatter plots, pie charts, or choropleth maps, informational graphics allow us to discern what would otherwise be unmanageable loads of data indecipherable to the average person like his use of colour but I do not think I will carry on looking into his work as it doesn’t interest me at all.

Chris Ware

Chris Ware was an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.
Chris uses ‘Traditional’ materials such as pencil, pen and paints which I would love to incorporate in my own illustrations, he also uses computers to add colour strips and I would definitely be using a computer to design the layout and add text to my pages. Like Posey Chris uses text and imaging to direct the reader through a story easily which is what I will be looking in to for my own book.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was best known for his design on motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen.
During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, plus Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. This image I have decided to look at is called Poster for The Man with the Golden Arm, which he created in 1955, this poster was for a movie starring one of the 50’s most famous actors Frank Sinatra.
I was very surprised when I saw this poster looks very modern for the 50’s and makes me think that Bass was ahead of his time in the Design department.
The poster reminds me of a Matisse style, however this will not help me in my own ideas and I will have to look at this poster briefly.

Neville Brody

As Art Director for FACE magazine Neville Brody made is one of the top in his trade, his typography is celebrated by many graphic designers.
I like his use of text and I will look at his techniques to use for my own type.

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey created greeting cards and illustrations, his mainly created books, Goreys work was on the dark side to say the least, he rhymes about accidents that children get themselves into and makes them fun to enjoy. The books he creates are witty but and I do enjoy his humour in his books very much. His drawings mostly drawn in greyscale are my favourite I did not want to use this style for my own book but would like to use him as inspiration another time hopefully.

David Carson

David Carson, a graphic designer famous because of his magazine and typography design, most famously his Ray Gun magazine. Just by looking at his work you can see he was pushing the boundaries of this era, his work is inspirational and made a huge impact in the design world.
I like his design but I do not think this will help me along with my book design, I will look into his use of type as I think this will help me to create a piece of reading material which the audience can understand easily.

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake is the creator of Rold Dahl's illustrations, I always remember these images he paints as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the first books I read by myself. The illustrations are light and simple but they have so much character and colour, I based my own paintings around these and created my own style. I love the way he uses watercolour and when I chose to paint with these he was the first person I chose to research. Quentin’s illustrations are very simple which I like, he draws the way he wants to and I think that gives his work a different look.

Miffy

Dick Bruna, created the this simple drawing of a rabbit named Miffy i decided to look at the 'Miffy' charachters as they are simple and easy for children to understand. looking at the way 'miffy' is drawn helped me create my different charachters/object illustrations.

Futurist Typography- Filippo Marinetti

Filippo Marinetti uses typography to create stylistic posters, i have looked at the use of text and the way it can be displayed. he dosent just use simple lines of vertical or horisontal text, he will place them wherever he wants in any angle on the page, this i am intrested in and have experimented for my own book.

The piece, Zang Tumb Tumb is one of my favorites, he uses two colours yellow and black. i would like to use limited colours as i think they work well for the design for my book idea.

Natalie Dee

Natalie Dee was one of the first illustrators I looked at myself, I really liked her style. She draws simple images, which look really effective and are quite witty. I like the simple images she creates and looking at these helped me create my own style as her drawings are not perfect but they still look good. I enjoy looking at her illustrations as a comic she posts monthly the text she uses is also simple, handwritten I think, which adds to the effect, and style she is going for.