Discussion Point - Alana Peddie

Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer was born in 1900 in Northern Austria. At the age of 21 Bayer was accepted to study at the Bauhaus School, a German art school founded by the architect Walter Gropius and one of the largest influences on the direction of 20th century design. Bayer studied under the schools great professors for four years and upon his graduation was appointed by Gropius to direct the new "Druck und Reklame" (Printing and Advertising0 workshop to open. It was within this role that Bayer instituted the lowercase alphabet as the style for all Bauhaus printing, and to accompany this Bayer was commissioned to design a typeface for all Bauhaus communiques. The result was the geometric sans serif typeface "universal" .

Bayer left the Bauhaus and became the art director of Vogue magazine in Berlin until 1938 when he moved to New York City, When settled he worked in associateion with Walter Gropius to design the exposition "Bauhaus 1918-28" at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

Bayer died at the age of 85 in 1985, leaving behind him an outstanding career whcih is respected as having affected nearly every field of the arts, especially typography.

David Carson

David Carson (born 1954) is an American graphic designer. Carson is best known for his innovative magazine design and experimental use of typography. Highly influential, especially during the 1990's he's "grunge typography" era was widely imitated. Carson broke the traditional mould of how type was displayed on a page, exploding its possibilities and making the point that letters are art. David Carson's typographical treatments largely integrate photography to produce a minimal low-fi look.

Carson started designing in the 80's with no formal schooling in the field, his work became well know in the late 80's and early 90's through skateboarding and surfing magazines. He later started the lifestyle and music magazine the Ray Gun Magazine, and went on to start his own design firm, David Carson Design.

Sources

Bayer

http://www.type.nu/bayer/

http://www.type.nu/bayer/univer.html

Images: http://perlica.blogspot.com.au/2011_03_01_archive.html

              http://anasokolovic.hotglue.me/herbert

Carson

http://www.ted.com/speakers/david_carson.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_%28graphic_designer%29

http://www.arsgrafik.com/david-carson/

Images: http://www.magazine.org/asme/top_40_covers/index.aspx

              http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/