BGD Orozco Gerardo: 2017

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Design Disruptors Movie

Movie Review

The Design Disruptors movie was a complete overwhelming experience. The movie teach us about the importance of graphic designers in the programing areas such as Uber, Spotify and Lyft. It really change my perspective of design. Before, when I heard my friends or random people talking about graphic design the only things that will come to my mind were magazine's covers and flyers; but now it's completely different. Graphic design is a really big area which includes a lot of other fields.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Grid Typeface

Layers

Kit Hinrichs

Kit Hinrichs studied 4 years at the Art Center College in Los Angeles California; he is a veteran in graphic design. Long before the establishment of Hinrichs Studio in San Francisco, California, Kit was part of The Pentagram for 23 years. Being able to travel around the world helped Hinrichs to change his vision about designing in America. We can learn a lot from Hinrichs' interview. He is not a pro in using computers but he have a great visionary mind and point of view. One of Hinrichs main skills is drawing. Drawing is what made Hinrichs stand out from a very young age. Kit Hinrichs is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA medal in recognition of his great work in the field of graphic design and visual communication.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Interaction of Color

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes is a graphic design but more specifically an illustrator. Bantjes is an independent artisan who scape once in a while to her house in a small island so she can work on her creativity. I really enjoyed to see how Bantjes transform her amazing ideas into real stuff. Several people from the graphic design world expressed the ways how they feel about Marian Batjes; how she have been changing the design industry through her beautiful products. In this video Bantjes present us some of her final works; one of those final works are the christmas recycled gift cards. Even when I'm not to much into typography I can clearly see Bantjes' talent when she is lettering. Bantjes show us the particularly way in how she gets inspire and then how she finalize her amazing artisan work.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Typographic Artisans

From these new video series we meet Jessica and Erik. They both work at Title Case; and they both are typographic artisans. What is a typographic artisans? Well, basically is an artist who works with letters. Creating and using different type of fonts these artisans create art. Jessica and Erik explain us how they use their work space to create and get inspire. Jessica adds that doing lectures to other people makes her to see ideas in a different perspective. These typographic artisans show us how to transmit a certain feeling through letters; some examples are: signs, books, a magazine cover, etc.

Both Jessica and Erik tell us how a typographic designer differs from a graphic designer. The way in how a typographic and a graphic designer work is different one from another. Typographic artisan is one of the branches that us as designers can chose to explore.