Michael Bierut

This design is by Michael Bierut. It is an extremely simple way to get the message across that our society relies on design to be informed. This piece is typical of Bierut's modernist style of design.

Bob Dylan's Style of Painting

Bob Dylan-From the Drawn Blank Series

Bob Dylan's paintings portray the quirks of working class life in such a subtly colorful fashion the same way his music does. His style is similar to Picasso's where the reality is defined by the color and not the "realistic" details. The painting at 0:33 shows the figure walking in the background in the way I just mentioned: with color defining what the viewer sees, and letting derived emotions and familiarity fill in the blanks.

http://changeperspective.saab.com/global/en/# This is the link to website advertising for Saab. The site looks to be mostly of animated photos and drawings. You can click on different links that interactively describe about what makes Saab different. For example, there is a page where an ant is carrying a leaf and you click to make the leaf grow into a stem. The metaphor is the way in which Saab faces environmental challenges. Overal, this website is a great way to convince people that Saab is a cut above the rest in advanced technology.

Animal Collective Album Cover

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's newest album, features a cover like none other. The design creates the illusion that the image is breathing. If it were not for this effect, the album cover would be boring.

Honda Website

http://www.a-wards.com/wiedenkennedy/honda/ded/ This website makes a great use of simple graphics and is very interactive. The music has the sound of liquid drops to mimic the way a Honda sips gas.

Diesel's Website

I visited the Diesel Jeans website. Any expensive brand of casual clothing needs to have an extremely creative website. The website has almost a counter-culture feel to it. The rollovers in the jeans section are the effect of a TV screen with a mixed signal. Static is the theme throughout the website. It is a great way to advertise an expensive product.

Mono Face website

http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html. Here is the link to a website for an ad agency that "believes in the power of simplicity." This particular part of the website combines different facial elements of each team member into one. You can click on a link that reshuffles the face and a new combination comes up. Going along with the company's motto, it is very simple, yet extremely fascinating and well designed.

Album Cover Inspiration

http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/assets/artwork01/Artists/Elvis-Costello/HRM-31280-02/Secret-Profane-and-Sugar-Cane-Cover-Art-Hi.jpg. This is the link to an album cover by Elvis Costello I first saw at Barnes and Noble. The album is called Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane. The album cover looks like a design you would see on a book of fairy tales. A crow with some sort of plant in its mouth is the focal point. There are vines in a circular motion with different scenes, none really related, embedded inside them like pictures in a picture frame. A creek of blood is the background. The drawings are not especially incredible, but they all have a consistent style. The album cover art probably depicts the seemingly random yet interrelated events of a person's life, which must be a theme Costello consistently expresses.

Pulp Fiction Inspiration

Today I took a good look at the cover of Pulp Fiction. I realized how it was created to have the look and feel of an actual pulp fiction(a cheap fiction magazine published from the 1920s throughout the 1950s). It has wear and tear on the sides(I mean real wear and tear, the collector's edition does, anyway). Also, a version of it on google has a cheesy retro-looking "10 cents" logo on it. This classic movie poster reminded me that good design means getting a message across, not necessarily making something look pleasing to the eye, although it should involve both. When I see a movie poster like this, it leads me to question the way graphic designers follow the latest design trends. I guess with every design, the creator needs to choose whether following the latest design trend or going for something completely horrendous-looking according to modern day standards is the best way to catch a viewer's attention, or get an underlying meaning across.