Jeff Docherty

Throughout his 10 year career, Jeff Docherty has been fortunate enough to touch all aspects of his profession, from managing in-house creative teams to developing external client relationships, brand communications, idea generation, and photography art direction. these experiences are as diverse as the places he’s acquired them — advertising and branding agencies, boutique design studios, and intennational publications. Hes created some stellar work alnog the way, for a very impressive roster of clients including, The New York Times Magazine, Nike, and I.D. magazine to name a few.

 Andy Baron is a San Francisco-based desiger who spent several years with Landor assosiates before teaming up with tomorrow Parnters. I love his recent re-design of the Miller High Life packaging, and overall hes got some solid work, and smart ideas like his proposed identity for the San Diego Zoo, bsaed on their catchy tagline, Wild at Heart.

Herb Lubalin

One of the great graphic designers of the 20th century, Herb Lubalin is perhaps best known for designing the iconic and highly recognizable font,ITC avant Gothic.  This font was soon widely used, but Lubalin complained that it was overused and abused.
Lubalin is also said to have gained the reputation as a “dirty young man” in high school with his nude drawings of Tarzan and Jane. This theme would resurface later in his career though Eros, a magazine that he helped to design. Eros was eventually shut down after the US Postal Service brought an obscenity case against it.
I’m a big fan of nearly all fonts designed by Lubalin, includingITC serif gothic, ITC ronda, and ITC Lublain graph.
There are 11 pages of Lubalin’s work spanning all the way from his logos and branding up to his more conceptual art and photography. It’s a rather thorough collection and a good starting point if you’re looking for inspiration from one of the original masters of our medium.

On a side note, Gabor’s tribute prompted me to brush up on my Herb Lubalin Trivia by going over his Wikipedia entry. I was shocked to find that he passed away at age 63. Maybe seeing another of my design heroes, Wim Crouwel,in Helvetica film gave me an unrealistic ideal of longevity, but I always thought of design as the sort of trade you could still be plugging away at and actually producing relevant work well into your 60′s and 70′s (desire permitting, of course). It’s a shame he passed so soon and it’s incredible what he was able to achieve in the relatively short time he had. I wonder what his thoughts on the digital revolution would have been? And perhaps more importantly, how would he have viewed the resurgence and near ubiquity of his famous typeface (Avant Garde) in the past decade of graphic design?

Jan Kallwejt

with fantasy and sesnse of humour - I introduce Jan Kallwejt. young illusrtator and graphic designer based in Warsaw. he is running his own one person studio, mainly creating logos and illutrations. in the society he is well known for his controversial and funny t-shirt designs, but he is also involved in alot of projects for big corporations. style reflected in Jan's work is defined by hip-hop culture, street art and japanease manga. prowocative work is full of icons, popculture symbols, and breaking stereotypes. and all of this is beautifully packed in colorful, sharp illustrations. best example showing his attitude and style is design created relating to Olympics in Bejing, where ''three wise monkeys'' have been changed into people to represent the human rase. hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evill, have been used to show the ignorance of the whole world about ruler of democracy and braknig the human rights in Bejing. he is regurally toughing different issues in present society. one of his designs shows pictograms - the ones used to mark ladies and gents toilets - changed into transsexuals. his funny, sharp and colorful illutrations are something new and fresh in the world of illustration.

Wine Label Design

By a professionals is considered as a separate form of art - because law does not require producents to place alto of information on a wine label - it is like a blank canvas for a designer. Wine is like a guest you can invite over of a dinner, to tell you a story, show you where it comes form and introduce a new country. And it can do all of that before you even open the bottle. Its packaging is not only defying the product, it os also defying our character, its is belonging to a group of lifestyle products - it tells a lot of who bought it and what they like. Good wine is a luxurious product, that we buy for own pleasure, so good, well designed label is a key to success. It should reflect its quality and character, show where its from, and who is it for. One of the main jobs of a wine label is to show where the wine is from, like Spanish Rioja, with characteristic, cut off corners. One of my favourite is a projects created by mash studio from aurstralia, brave and contemporary . Mollydooker winery- fun and young, is the wine i would buy just for the label itself. Retro colours and use of old cartoons alike characters are giving it very fun, fresh look, rarely seen on wine labels. Another great example from mash studio is Killbinbin, relating to old movie posters. More posh works from this studio is velvet glove, treated very literally, because label is shaped like a glove, printed with a silk finish. Francis ford coppola winery is just as good in design, as the best films from this director. Directors cut is beautifully reflecting the history of the cinema, from perfectly designed label to clever cork, designed like a film roll. Designed by Stephen faustina.

Bronislaw Zelek

I would like to introduce design from my home country - Poland. I wish design from this regions of Europe was more appreciated, that’s why I am planning on shownig some of the best (in my opinion) pieces of art, created by polish. Character mentioned in the title, was born in Poalnd and at the beginning of the 70’s based in Viena, where he started studying design. Most famous for his posters, he’s area of expertise is typography. This passion for letters started when he was designing the posters - letters were always around me - he says. Letter forms are always a part of the poster, if not the most important part of the poster. Most famous posters he created are a mixture of symbols and letter forms, clashed together, creating intriguing, symbolic unity. Poster created for Alfed Hitchcock’s ‘’birds’’ is on the most wanted list of most of the collectors. Trough his adventure with poster, started adventure with type. First font familyzelek shadline and zelek bold by zelek was created in 1971, and were result of attempts to create something geometrically impossible. After that, he created font called new zelek, in my opinion one of his best, still used very commonly. He tried to create letters that wold work with each other - very shape cuts and strongly defined geometric forms are creating very interesting visual effect. This typeface is sharp, very characteristic. And i this is the best representation of who Bronislaw zelek is, and what he does. It can be described as energetic, strong, solid, reliable. It has been used by a band basement jaxx on their cdcover, because of all these factors.