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Last post: 8 years, 7 months ago | Thread started: Sep 24, 04, 5:40 p.m.

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• fate

  Who are some graphic designers who applied philosophy to their work and motives? Paul Rand? Saul Bass? Who are the people I need to know about?

  Danke ;) I'm just a self-taught kid wanting to learn more.

  Sep 24, 04, 5:40 p.m. – Permalink

• ad1

  i don't know fate but i dig where you're coming from.

  there are the whole art vs pragmatism paradigms but i sense you are trying to look deeper than that...

  hmmm?

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 5:49 p.m. – Permalink

• canuck

  what do you mean by philosphy?

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 7:18 p.m. – Permalink

• fate

  Like those that had progressive ideas, that saw graphic design as more than just selling Toothpaste and Tampons.

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 7:23 p.m. – Permalink

• canuck

  Just graphic designers? or designers in general, cause most of the old designers had their hands in more than one pot. There are quite a few good theorists, practicioners from back in the day Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Rietveld, Tischold, brockman, Eames, the futurists, man the list goes on. I mean those mentioned go out the realm of graphic design but it's all tied together. You should pick up a genral design history book get familiar with some names and take it from there.

  This is a good general history book.

  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 7:38 p.m. – Permalink

• canuck

  William Morris is the man too. keeping it real; keeping it natural.

  http://www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg/

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 7:43 p.m. – Permalink

• fate

  Thanks canuck, that's just what I wanted!

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 8:02 p.m. – Permalink

• warheros

  frank lloyd wright...Ray & Charles Eames

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 9:06 p.m. – Permalink

• ikbenvanrijn

  i like the philosophy of the pixel

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 9:14 p.m. – Permalink

• woodyBatts

  http://www.designwritingresearch…

  also check out artists like vito acconci, missimo vignelli, donald judd...

  werd

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 04, 9:27 p.m. – Permalink

• fresnobob

  All the great graphic designers and movments had a philosophy. Look at design history. THere is no comprehensive graphic design history book, but the best by far is "A History of Graphic Design," by the late Phillip Meggs.

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 04, 3:46 a.m. – Permalink

• jeeto

  Just saw another post about this and figured I'd suggest something:

  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…

  Ogilvy put this book out years ago and I think it still holds well with philosophy surrounding advertising. He did the first campaigns for VW and thas what initially got me into him. He really is a marketing/advertising genius. This book mainly balances your design schooling.

  

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  Dog-earSep 27, 04, 11:50 p.m. – Permalink