Philosophy
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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.
- ad10
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?
- canuck0
what do you mean by philosphy?
- fate0
Like those that had progressive ideas, that saw graphic design as more than just selling Toothpaste and Tampons.
- canuck0
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.
- canuck0
William Morris is the man too. keeping it real; keeping it natural.
- fate0
Thanks canuck, that's just what I wanted!
- warheros0
frank lloyd wright...Ray & Charles Eames
- ikbenvanrijn0
i like the philosophy of the pixel
- woodyBatts0
http://www.designwritingresearch…
also check out artists like vito acconci, missimo vignelli, donald judd...
werd
- fresnobob0
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.
- jeeto0
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.