Designer-Paul Rand

Paul Rand was born on August 15, 1914. He was an American graphic designer that best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students LeagueSwiss Style of graphic design. From there he began to teach design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He also designed many posters and corporate identities, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Westinghouse, Playboy, and ABC.

His career began in small projects like creating stock images that supplied graphics to various newspapers and magazines. Rand’s work largely influenced by the German advertising style Sachplakat as well as the works of Gustav Jensen. His designs on the covers of Direction magazine.

Although Rand was most famous for the corporate logos he created in the 1950s and 1960s, his early work in page design was the initial source of his reputation. Rand always think about the need and function for his design strategy. He got many awards and influenced in many designers today.

Gutenberg Poster

This is my recent project that I'm working on Johannes Gutenberg. I did a perspective for the type treatment and used lower down the opacity for the background image. For the typeface I used Cochin and Letter Gothic.

Guide to Fun Activities

In this project, we get random photographs as raw material to create a cohesive, engaging, and unique presentation. Stage Dimensions: 640 X 480. Think about what visual, interactive, and motionrelationship they have with the screen contents, as well as the navigation keys.

From all the pictures that were received, I decided for the theme of Guide to Fun Activities in the San Francisco. In the home page, the navigation buttons represented each page with specific activities. Also, when you hover on the buttons, it showed the type of that specific activities. The combination color were grey, cool grey, white, pink, and red. All of these were done in Flash.

Company and Organization Sites

http://www.gouramidesign.com/

Gourami Design is for web and graphic desgin. It is very simple sites, easy to navigate, and user friendly. All the portfolio works are in the thumbnail pictures that you can easily browse. You can enlarge the image and it shows a brief of description what the project is about. The layout is very clean and simple.

http://www.blkmtnstudio.com/

BLK+MTN is a collaborative that specializes in Print, Design, Interactive, Web, Screen Printing, Video Production, Motion Graphics, and Photography. In the home page, it shows the recent work that they did like a blog. For the work navigation, it just show the work with a brief description of the left. Also, for the work of the web you can browse to the actual websites.

Personal Portfolio Sites

http://www.tanyamerone.com/

This is a simple sites that almost look like a blogsites. It is easy to navigate and very functional. She divided her work into five different categories. On each categories just show thumbnails of the work when you click on it, the pictures is enlarge. She also listed the different softwares that she used as part of her skill in the About page. What I found interesting, she put what her design inspirationa and her favorite reading on the sites.

http://taufiq-ridha.co.cc/

This site has a feel of a blogsite using notebook paper that you can post your recent comments. For the portfolio, he has an interesting navigation. He put all his work in landscape format and you can zoom in to see all the work. I barely see that for an online portfolio. He also put a list of his recognition.