About This Blog

This blog is about anything and everything to do with Graphic Design.

Who Is Erica?

I am a Graphic Design student in my second year. I have worked at Woolworths for five years and have had three years experience in Retail Operations.

I am interested in illustration (hand-drawn or computer generated), advertising (such as business card and poster design) and also textiles (such as making clothing, keyrings and pencil cases). I also intend to get my Diploma Certificate for Graphic Design.

Two Graphic Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
  • Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.
  • Stefan Sagmeister proceeded to form the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. Sagmeister Inc. has employed designers including Martin Woodtli, and Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, who later formed Karlssonwilker.
  • He teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Arts in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York.
  • His motto is "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution."
  • Sagmeister goes on a year-long sabbatical around every seven years, where he does not take work from clients. Currently on one in Bali, Indonesia, he is resolute about this, even if the work is tempting, and has displayed this by declining an offer to design a poster for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Sagmeister spends the year experimenting with personal work and refreshing himself as a designer.
David Carson
  • David Carson is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the 1990s. In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era.
  • In a feature story, NEWSWEEK magazine said he "changed the public face of graphic design".
  • His layouts featured distortions or mixes of 'vernacular' typefaces and fractured imagery, rendering them almost illegible.
  • In some of his work he makes you more aware of world issues by his use of effective/ strong typography and imagery. 
  • David was listed as one of the all time 5 most influential designers, with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli.
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