1960's Research

VICTOR MOSCOSO RESEARCH 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Moscoso
For my 60's album I researched into Victor moscoso as i think his designs sum up the 60's pretty well. his work was always psychedelic looking the colours which he used were bright and eye catching. 


Victor Moscoso (born 1936 in Oleiros, Spain) is an artist best known for producing psychedelic rock posters/advertisements and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s.

Born in Spain, Moscoso was the first of the rock poster artists of the 1960s era with formal academic training and experience. After studying art at Cooper Union in New York City and at Yale University, he moved to San Francisco in 1959. There, he attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where he eventually became an instructor.

Moscoso's use of vibrating colors was influenced by painter Josef Albers, one of his teachers at Yale. He was the first of the rock poster artists to use photographic collage in many of his posters.

Professional lightning struck in the form of the psychedelic rock and roll poster for San Francisco's dance halls and clubs. Moscoso's posters for the Family Dog dance-concerts at the Avalon Ballroom and his Neon Rose posters for the Matrix resulted in international attention during the 1967 Summer of Love.

MORE SPECIFIC ALBUM ART

Over the years, Moscoso created several album covers for various artists including Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Steve Miller and Herbie Hancock. 

http://www.victormoscoso.com/gallery5.htm

1970's Research

MILTON GLASER
I have looked at Milton Glaser's work from the 1970's as I think it is relevant to my work, The bright colours and patterns within his work are appropriate to the 70's as his ork was produced at the time and shows what was current at the time.

Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. In 2004 he was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. As a Fulbright scholar, Glaser studied with the painter, Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, and is an articulate spokesman for the ethical practice of design. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.

To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man — one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work. *

Born in 1929, Milton Glaser was educated at the High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union art school in New York and, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy. He co-founded the revolutionary Pushpin Studios in 1954, founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, established Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and teamed with Walter Bernard in 1983 to form the publication design firm WBMG. Throughout his career, Glaser has been a prolific creator of posters and prints. His artwork has been featured in exhibits worldwide, including one-man shows at both the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York

http://www.miltonglaser.com/milton

BARBARA BROWN
Barbara Brown (1939-) was the most high-profile designer at the time, began supplying designs in 1958 after studying at the Royal College of Art. Her ability to work on massive scale suited the architectural aspirations of the period. Later she experimented with optical distortions, as in this textile. Her designs influenced a whole school of pattern-making, and many designers emulated her powerful gargantuan idiom. Barbara Brown said that she never consciously designs with either fashion or the commercial market in mind, but works more like a painter, in that her designs - all of which have a characteristic three-dimensional quality - evolve and develop over a period of time. 

Its your choice

My initial idea came from these posters,  I really want to experiment with screen printing and try doing something similar to these posters but with my own proverbs, I want to broaden my horizons and learn to do a variety of thing now rather than when I actually need them in second year. 

I want to produce these posters so that they are approachable to children, they can teach important messages.  

 Sterre Verbokkem

Don't put all your eggs in the same basket -One should not risk everything he has in a single venture.

• Every dog has its day- Everyone will get a period of success or satisfaction during his lifetime.
• Birds of a feather flock together- People of the same sort of character or belief always go together.
• A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
• A barleycorn is better than a diamond to a rooster.
• A coconut shell full of water is an ocean to an ant.
• A crow is never the whiter forever washing.
• A bird never flew on one wing.
• A fine cage won't feed the bird.
• A hog in satin is still a hog.
• A leopard cannot change its spots.
• A mischievous dog must be tied short.
• A new net won't catch an old bird.
• A sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.
• A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
• A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
• A false friend and a shadow stay only while the sun shines.
• A big wife and a big barn never did a man any harm.
• A sheep that is no trouble to shear has little wool.
• A living dog is better than a deal lion.
• A closed mouth catches no flies

Theory into practice pattern Research

I came across these pattens whilst online and thought they were quite retro , maybe they could be used in one of my designs for my publications. to me they look very 80's due to the electric fell and bright colours used. 

http://slowtextiles.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/plus-ca-change.html 

What is a line Research

I took some photos of STA travel magazine as i wanted to look at their design and layout! i want to produce something which can work alongside these with a bit of a twist.