Giambattista Bodoni

Giambattista Bodoni came from a printmaking background, his father and grandfather both being in that trade. He worked for a time as an apprentice in the Vatican's Propaganda Fide printing house in Rome. There, it was said he impressed his superiors so much with his eagerness to learn, studiousness in mastery of ancient languages and types, and energy of effort, that he was allowed to place his own name on his first books, a Coptic Missal and a version of the Tibetan alphabet.

My views on some of Bodini's works  are that i like that he invented his own font that is still used today, which to me says he was a very good graphic designer and makes me feel that something so small can last a long time, I really like his works because in most of them he uses his own font that he created.

David Carson

David Carson was born on September 8, 1952 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Carson and his family moved to New York City four years later. Since then he has traveled all around the world but has maintained New York as his base of operations. Carson now owns two studios; one in Del Mar, California and another in Zürich.
During the period of 1982–1987, Carson worked as a teacher in Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California. In 1983, Carson started to experiment with graphic design and found himself immersed in the artistic and bohemian culture of Southern California. By the late eighties he had developed his signature style, using "dirty" type and non-mainstream photographic techniques. He would later be dubbed the "father of grunge."

I like David Carson's work in the Traveler's Journal cover he has titles "blue."
He has a piece that he focus' on using type but in the background has things of honey which is a cool effect that is random, and i enjoy it.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody was born in Southgate, London on 23 April 1957. At school, he studied A-Level Art, very much from a fine art viewpoint. In 1975 Brody went on to do a Fine Art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art, once renowned for its late sixties agitation, now part of Middlesex University.
In autumn 1976, Brody started a three-year B.A. course in graphics at the London College of Printing. His tutors often condemned his work as "Uncommercial", often putting a heavy emphasis on safe and tested economic strategies, as opposed to experimentation.
By 1977 punk rock was beginning to have a major effect upon London life and, while this had a great impact upon Brody's work and motivation, was not well received by his tutors. At one point he was almost thrown out of the college for putting the Queen's head sideways on a postage stamp design. He did, however, get the chance to design posters for student concerts at the college, most notably for Pere Ubu, supported by The Human League.

The works of Neville Brody are rather inspiring, especially his typography portrait of Thierry Eamon. It is a awesome piece. His works also to me are good because i believe in what they portray, like his work that displays "give me love" with a heart, used in his font, i really like his font.

First Blog!

This is my very first blog i have ever written. Not much of an actual blog, but a blog nonetheless!