Existing Mastheads - Inspiration

Max Bill

David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer and art director. Carson is best known for his creative and stylised magazine designs with the unique style of typography. Carson was the art director for the Ray Gun magazine which he focused heavily on the typography style of work. His style of typography has been described as "Grunge typography". 

What I specifically like about Carson's work is the collage effect that his work seems to have. I tend to like the mix 'n' match style of work which all looks experimental, I especially like the different types of typography that takes up a large amount of the piece of work. 

Modernism and Post Modernism - Definition

Modernism

Modernism is a movement that include cultural trends which arose from a vast scale in western society in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. There's a list of factors that changed and moulded Modernism to how it is was the growth of the industrial cultures and the amount of change in the cities. Modernism is also said that it rejected enlightenment and self though, many of the modernists started to reject any beliefs that they may have especially religious ones. 

Post Modernism

Postmodernism was first introduced in the 1870's, the term post modernism is also used to describe events that changed in the western society and culture in the 1960's. Post modernism is also used as a style term and also as a designation, work such as paintings that have been described as post modern include artists such as Roy Lichenstein and David Hockney. 

New Visual Language - Mind Map

Key words relating to the project

• Modernism 
• Post Modernism
• Movements
• Political 
• Concerns
• Visual 
• Cubism 
• Social
• Philosophy 

New Visual Language

For the new brief I had to firstly research into Modernism and Post Modernism and at the same time create a range of work that explores the basics of the movements that related to the area of practice of my choice. The work that I create has to be an expression of the movement that I choose to do. In order for me to do that I need to understand the social and political concerns which influence both the movements. 

I need to submit designs for a broad sheet which should be based on my personal and original research from the start of the year, I need to include the edited versions of the following projects:
City in Flux
Earth Artifact
Type transcription 
New Visual Language

I also need to produce:
Masthead
Cover Design
Contents page
Inner pages/s