2nd Day Presentations

The second day of presentitons started with Barb's look into the life and times of Neville Brody. Not unlike my designer (Storm Thorgerson), Brody started off his career working with musicians. Designing album covers, concert posters, t-shirts for bands such as Depeche Mode. Throughout his career, Brody was able to keep his passion for surfing and sometimes even combine his work with it. As his fame as a designer grew, Brody kind of broke away from work with musicians to start Face Magazine and work with other various british magazines, as well as create new typefaces such as "Fuse". The book that was written about him and his design was and is the best selling book about graphic design. I thought Neville Brody just generally had the best life ever. He got to work with musicians, make designs for international magazines, made one of the coolest looking typefaces I've ever seen, and is still able to just chill and surf. What am I doing with my life?

Next we had Amanda's presentation on Art Chantry, the man who had a rough childhood, but took those experiences and made something out of them. It was nice to see something different. Other presentations so far just had the typical kind of formula: "What'd he do? What'd he make? Where's he now?", but we got a little look into Chantry's childhood sketches. It was interesting and funny to kind of see where a legendary graphic designer's drawing abilities were when they were a kid. Apparently, Chantry never got into using computer technologies for his designs, and I can kind of see why based on the style I was seeing during this presentation. Chantry had a theme of using "recycled art", taking clips of drawings from newspapers or books and then combining them onto a press. A lot of his work is punkish, dirty, and offensive, but that's just his style. A lot of his stuff is compared to Dadaist concepts, and it's pretty obvious why. He would recycle images and put them in offensive or dirty situations which suggests the notion that whether beautiful or disgusting, art can be anything.