Luis Antonio Rivera Rodríguez is a professional graphic and poster designer from Mexico. He is a member of AMDI Mexican Association of Illustrators. He participated in many national exhibitions, among which the following can be mentioned: Poster CON100te 2011, I Love Design 2012 and 2014 rock in paper 2013, 1 UP Mexico 2013 and 2015, …
Luis Antonio Rivera Rodriguez – Mexican poster at Retroavangarda Gallery Read More
Seung-Min Han was born in Korea in 1976. Graphic designer, illustrator, visual artist and educator based in Seoul. Professor of Hansung University Design & Arts Institute. He received his MFA degree in Visual Communication Design at Kookmin University in Korea and BA in Visual Communication, Digital Media at KvB Institute of Technology (Bond University) in …
Seung Min Han – positive energy in Korean illustration Read More
Jonathan Sirit – graphic designer, musician, collage artist and creator of underground zines. These are just some of the passions of the young artist. He was born in Venezuela in 1987 and 20 years later he migrated to Barcelona. He is the drummer of now famous punk band Belgrado (lead singer of which, by the …
Reid Miles (1927-1993) Reid Miles is an ingenious graphic designer who worked in the 50s and 60s for Blue Note record company and created there over 500 album designs, which today are splendid examples for subsequent generations of graphic designers. Why are they so good? When talking about album cover designs it is often said …
Cuban poster holds a special place in the history of graphic design due to its unique style and strong, expressive language. Cuban posters from the 60s and 70s have a lot in common with Polish Poster School as well. I had the pleasure of talking with Mr. Luigino Bardellotto, the director of Centro Studi Cartel …
Graphic design and painting might seem to some as distant fields of art but the truth is that artists from both sides face the same artistic problems, for instance: balanced composition, colour, scale, dominant etc. In history of art, there are instances of artists who practice completely different art styles and yet create very similar …
Henri Matisse vs Paul Rand – what the famous fauvist has to do with the author of IBM logo Read More
Photomontage as an art technique was initiated and developed by Dadaists in the interwar period. Back then, it proved to be the perfect tool for expressing rebellious moods and political critique. One of the first and at the same time most important artists using this technique was John Heartfield. He was German, his real name …
Classical covers of the British publishing house Penguin has for good settled in the history of graphic design. Romek Marber has a significant part in this great achievement, a Polish designer who in 1960s created for Penguin one of the most popular crime book series. Marber was born in 1925 and after the War he migrated …
Polish designer for Penguin Books – the green crime series by Romek Marber Read More
The avant-garde art of the 1920s has had tremendous influence on the development of graphic design. You can find these inspirations in today’s rock music videos as well. Below, I chose a few examples which I personally find the most interesting. In the 70s in Germany a music genre called Neue Deutsche Welle (New German …
Avant-garde inspirations – Kraftwerk, Franz Ferdinand and Laibach Read More
When painting or composing any project one should consider that different compositional layouts evoke different effects on the viewer and might evoke different connotations. The dominance of horizontal lines in a painting or a graphic design project symbolizes peace, stagnation, melancholy or even sadness. This results from subconscious association of horizontal position with sleeping, retirement …
The meaning of line directions in art – horizontals, verticals, diagonals Read More
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