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8 INFLUENTIAL DESIGNERS IN 2015

Louise Boswell Dan Wong Victor Marinho

THE IDEA…

So we thought doing a review of some of the best designers from 2015, would be useful resource of knowledge for all years. The information could be accessed and located in a unique way of and old school flow chart by following a structure of yes and no answers. Wanting not to over complicate the design and display wanted to keep the questions short, few and just to separate the information of the designers in an interesting way rather than just displaying all the information in paragraphs and having to scroll to find the section of information needed.

THE DESIGNERS..

Faust

Sagmeister & Walsh Skip Hursh

Seunghoon Shin Ali Bruce

Carl Turner

Leimai Lemaow Nicolas Ménard we selected these designers by looking up several articles on influential design, and doing book researches, reading reviews of exhibitions of 2015 and selected what we found to be the most interesting, and the names that popped up the most frequently. We then went on to do a devise a brief background history of each designer and the design that caught our attention in 2015.

BLOG POST DESIGN

The information will be displayed in a flow chart that separate's into categories, such as fashion , animation, illustration, computer arts. By following the flow chart down it'll lead you to further information on the 8 designers and information about their work, accomplishments in 2015 and any exhibitions or works that are going

• n 2016 followed by a brief background on the designer.

CARL TURNER (LOU’S FAVOURITE DESIGNER)

Carl turner is a really famous interior designer known for using sustainable resources, some of his most famous designs was pop-up Brixton which was implanted to be built in 2014 and was finished in 2015. pop up Brixton is designed from recycled shipping containers and all the shops inside are designed around a city like layout of boutique clothe shops, record shops, world food and interestingly designed sitting areas. Brixton baddest skate shop was also launched in pop up Brixton at the being of 2016, the premier of the video was held in the event area of the pop Brixton. What was once cleverly disguised as a wall opened up into a large square event hall, the door to this hall was, two container high and wide. Showing the unique design and flexibility of this great space, not mention how popular its become with the visiting public. It truly lives up to its design and has a created a trendy cultural hotspot in Brixton’s markets.

24/04/2016 2 POP UP BRIXTON PICTURES LEIMAI LEMAOW.. IKEA BUCKET HAT LEIMAI LEMAOW

Originally a scouse graffiti writer, based around Manchester and was commissioned on several productions in cities like Manchester she has slowly started to make a boom in the fashion design industry. She made waves by reproducing and putting up for sale the ikea bucket hat in 2015. the bucket hat craze came in early 2014 and is influenced by the 1990’s popular styled fashion which has been repacked and rebranded as the ‘Neo-retro’ era ( basically what our generation is calling the fashion these days because it’s a clash of 60-90’s). By late 2015, and into the new year Leimai had launched her own clothing line Called Toromai, in the first 48 hours of launch several of the jumper collections had sold out and more clothing needed to be produced. Keep your eyes open for more unique

• ne off fashion collections coming from Leimai and

Toromai.

SEUNGHOON SHIN

Was hitting the pages of design magazines after is work on project monsoon in south Korea, it was part of the black pencil awards, part of the A&AD awards. Seoul, South Korea is a vibrant and happening city, in the monsoon season takes away colour and energy from the streets and

• people. So with help from Pantone,

the project team painted the streets with water-activated paint, to bring back colour during the monsoon season.

FRAUST

New York is a taggers jungle, all the amateur scribbles draw and carve the landscape of new York. But beautiful handmen ship is not an omen. Faust takes beautifully designed calligraphy to new York streets. Faust grounds is idea in a graffiti writer needn’t’ change his style of artwork to be a legitimate fine artist, letters are enough. Graffiti art 365 magazine even argues that he is more of an installation designer, who has taken to the streets of new York, as he truly proves vandalism has design techniques, and is its own culture of the art world these days and shouldn’t be seen as a less form of art compared to installation art

• r conceptual art.

In 2015 Faust worked along side the new York museum of art, Fabergé all without revelling his identity but you don’t see anyone calling him the next

• Banksy. He is defiantly is one to watch in 2016 because

several new York magazines have credited his work highly, including the times. Showing that graffiti is and can take the design and art world by storm.

24/04/2016 3 SKIP HURSH

In 2015 Skip Dolphin Hursh designed a ‘Computer arts front cover’ for Design magazine ‘Computer arts’ the front cover featured to be completely mobile and interactive on the front cover’s iPad edition, the interactive front cover can be seen in link below. Along side this project Skip worked with Tumblr and made several animated computer art ‘Illustrations that were featured on the website in 2015, some of which were nominated for awards in design. He is truly the master of animated art and gifs. http://www.skiphursh.com/

SAGMEISTER & WALSH

Sagmeister & Walsh have been such a huge name in graphic design and are truly able to communicate such powerful emotion and message visually through all their projects. In 2015 they designed graphics for the Jewish museum, the design combines old fashioned religious typography and new school graphics beautifully. When you look of the body of work they’ve produced for the client and how beautifully, its done you can see why there so highly sort after to work

• with. The colour scheme and whole feel to the

collection is very Jewish and up to date with the use

• f sacred geometry (which was made by in the

Jewish religion but is heavily used in spirituality) and very used in recent fashion movements, geometric patterns are hot in fashion at the minute making the design not only on point with the Jewish religion but trendy and unique to look at, the animations they made for the website are interactive patterns that formulate before your very eyes, elegantly.

Nicolas Ménard

graphic artist

Is a French Canadian graphic artist currently based in London. In 2015 Nicolas made several Graphic art productions which were beautifully made for google play, he’s also designed some of the animations you may have seen above the google logo on the home page. Some of his over clients include Universal, The new York times their website, Nike and adobe. And has been credited for Adobe achievement awards, Pictoplasma, Chromatic and Grafika. His animation films have been screened and awarded in festivals around the world, including Ottawa, Annecy and Anima. Nicolas continues to work on personal projects, his whole website is beautifully animated and designed its self and features a shop where you can purchase his unique

• illustrations. Nicolas is increasingly becoming more known for

his work with google and growing popular day by day, even I recognised a lot of his illustration work .

ALI BRUCE

Based on the west coast of America current works as a free lanced illustrator and has a love for adventure, Ali work has been heavily credited throughout 2015, and was published in a few magazines with her collaboration work with the fashion line French

• connection. Ali Illustration style is so loveable and is

heavily influenced by traditional style tattoo art, this can be seen in the drawing style and the content of what she draws, you could say her work is like a more cutesy goolish style of Ed Hardy's earlier creations. With the ever popular growing demand for body art you can see why Ali works could be becoming hugely popular, and id agree it defiantly appeals to me and I am a 19 year old tattooed girl so id suspect him hitting her target audience, I say it leans more towards women as a general audience because of the

• ver use of pastel pink’s in her work.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/work/project/jewish-museum-identity/ http://www.skiphursh.com/ http://www.dandad.org/en/new-blood-black-pencil-winners-2015/ http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/new-blood-winners http://seunghoon.com/ABOUT http://faustnewyork.com/ http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/07/the-23-best-designers-of-2015-so-far.html http://nicolasmenard.com/index.php http://www.alibruce.com/