Wednesday 29 May 2013

Designers

Designers influence new graphics styles constantly, Their are some very famous designers you need to know about and have come up in all of the Graphics papers ever.

Harry Beck
Created the schematic underground maps for the London Underground. They are highly simplified maps that are easy to understand and interpret.

Alberto Alessi
Owns Alessi factory that produces Home ware products. Employs other designers to create  innovative designs such as Philippe Starck's Lemon juicer.

Margret Calvert and Jock Kinnear
Designed the countries signage system. The road signs you see indicating hazards and giving directions have been designed by them to be as easy as possible to read and understand.

Wally Olins
One of the biggest practitioners in corporate identity.He creates bran identity logo's for major corporations. He designed the P&O logo and the logo for the Olympics 2012.

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