Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, of curse, a graphic and unpleasant response to that question, but a polite student with no career plans has only two ways to answer: the gong way ("I'm planning to parlay it into a billiondollar rubber empire in the South American jungle") or the honest way--"I have no idea...
...idea of a uniform corporate look originated in Germany before World War I. Its pioneer was AEG, the nationwide electric company, which began as a manufacturer of light bulbs, soon made electric appliances and, by 1928, controlled mines, railroads, rolling mills and airplane plants. Peter Behrens, a painter, graphic artist and architect, who also gained a reputation as a designer of type faces and industrial products, created AEG's distinct, although by now somewhat antiquated rendition of its initials...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer, who both taught at the Bauhaus, brought the new graphic style to U.S. advertising studios. Says Bayer, 82, who was consultant and director of design for the Container Corp. of America from 1946 to 1965: "I told my friend Walter P. Paepcke, then Container's president, that a modern corporation should project a socially and culturally responsible personality. It should be a tastemaker and thought provoker. It should contribute to civilization." The result was Container's famous 20-year advertising campaign featuring "Great Ideas of Western Man," with illustrations by such notable...
...bottom half is precise and calm, but the top half reflects an impatient, unhappy individual. Herbert Hoover demonstrates incredible motivation, but the coiled web tells us he feels trapped, and the overlapping of the designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about job vs. home...
...times the graphic line comes close to obliterating the story line (from Robert C. O'Brien's Newbery Award-winning novel). Poor Mrs. Brisby and her rodent brood! If they do not pale in contrast to the sophisticated visuals, they are slipping out of the spotlight to make room for a chorus of scene stealers on both sides of the camera. Sullivan, a feline too mean for the Official I Hate Cats Book, is given the voice of gravel-garbling Aldo Ray. Someone finally found an apt role for ancient John Carradine: the basso voice of the Great...