Day 2 of presentations

Friday we were presented with Neville Brody, Art Chantry, and Storm Thorgerson. Neville Brody is native of the United Kingdom. He was really into the whole punk music scenes and that really had an effect on him. It let him to rebellion. Face Magazine was what really made Neville become an influential designer. He worked up his status quickly. It only took him two years to become art director of the magazine. He worked with another magazine called fuse. In this magazine Neville really liked to work with graphic and type face design more than anything. "Brody" is the best graphic design book that has been sold, and this book talks all about him and his designs. Art Chantry was the second presentation we heard about. Art Chantry, or Arthur Samuel Chantry, had a rough childhood. He was born in a predominant family with his father being a high end government official, but his father wasn't a very nice one. He would be his mother a lot to the point where she left them. They moved to a lower end neighborhood, and in high school he "discovered friends, psychedelic posters, rock and roll, french symbolism poetry, and existentialism". Chantry was big on the punk and rock and roll. He had a dadaist philosophy and he used various typefaces in his designs. Lastly, Storm Thorgerson. He was by far the most interesting designer we have learned about so far. He really liked to design album covers for bands, and his biggest band that he designed for was Pink Floyd. He loved to use photography and layer them for his images. A lot of his images consisted of a big image next to a small image. He liked to show big/small comparisons. He was apart of the Hipgnosis design firm specializing in creative photography. The company didn't believe in a set price, and that turned out to bite them in the butt later on, and he left the company in 1985. Munch and Dali were some of his biggest influences and he is now working at Storm Studios as a freelancer.