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Brands All Around

It’s so crazy to think of the fact that nearly everyone in the world is influenced by brands whether they like it or not. The exception to this rule would be tribes in small parts of Africa who use grass and other materials in nature as clothing, and other such people in the world. We, as Americans, are far from the exception.

Just looking around right now I can already see several brands—Forever 21, Billabong, American Eagle, Dakine, Apple, Stabilo, Five Star, Maybelene, Cover Girl, and the list goes on.

I mean, think about it, the clothes you wear have brands, food is branded, makeup is branded, bags, pencils, notebooks and computers all have brands, whether the actual logos or brand names are visible on the object or not. It’s almost impossible to get away from brands. One of these days it may really be impossible. Can you imagine? Of course you can! What that means is basically that no one will make anything from scratch any more. And I’m talkin' really from scratch as in growing wheat to make flour to make bread. No one we know does that any more. So really, it’s not that hard to imagine but, it is a shocking realization because most people don’t think about those kinds of things.

Just think about it. It’s good for you.

branding use your brain think about it life today all around you thoughts seriously fun fact

I absolutely love the typography for this club in San Francisco called The Battery. Even though the colors are manly the font is feminine because of its curves and varying line width. This is what I find inspiring. When many different things are accomplished in one design successfully, I am always very interested. I think they did a great job in appealing to their upper class audience. The design is almost “fratty” looking, but with more sophistication. I do not know what I font that they are using is called. I even uploaded it to whatthefont.com and it couldn’t recognize which font was being used.

On the right page of this book the ads are using the font Didot. They are trying to give the ads a stylistic feel and look. I think that it works well because different cuts of the font are being used successfully all over. It feels very free yet...

On the right page of this book the ads are using the font Didot. They are trying to give the ads a stylistic feel and look. I think that it works well because different cuts of the font are being used successfully all over. It feels very free yet still contained on the one side of the magazine spread. This is inspirational to me because I don’t usually use fonts like Didot and I wouldn’t think to use them in the way that it is used here. This makes me realize some ways that I could broaden my type and design use but still keep it looking good.

This book and the others in the series use a modified version of Ideal Sans. I like that the counters are removed to reveal the image of the dahlias. This makes me really want to see some dahlias in real life and promotes the idea of me growing them,...

This book and the others in the series use a modified version of Ideal Sans. I like that the counters are removed to reveal the image of the dahlias. This makes me really want to see some dahlias in real life and promotes the idea of me growing them, therefore I think the type is successful. It is also very clean and modern which refers to planting things in the present day. I am inspired by this type usage because I love book design and I think this one is simple enough while still speaking loudly about planting these flowers.

http://designigniteschange.org/projects/976-the-green-river-newspaper This image is of the Green River Newspaper. The purpose of this work is to encourage young adults to read the newspaper so that they will be informed on current events. I think...

http://designigniteschange.org/projects/976-the-green-river-newspaper

This image is of the Green River Newspaper. The purpose of this work is to encourage young adults to read the newspaper so that they will be informed on current events. I think that the typography works very well with its purpose here. It is more modern and makes me more inclined to read that newspaper because it looks like it is directed towards me and my age group. Older, more traditional fonts used in newspapers can look boring. This is inspirational to me because this piece of work is creating change in the world which is what any designer aspires to do. I am not really sure which fonts are used here. This image is kind of small and I could not find any information on the fonts used online.

http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/32873 This example is extremely inspirational to me for our second project. It alludes to disasters in nature that cause problems to the earth. This one specifically is referring to an oil spill in water. It works...

http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/32873

This example is extremely inspirational to me for our second project. It alludes to disasters in nature that cause problems to the earth. This one specifically is referring to an oil spill in water. It works effectively because it looks like liquid and the word here is watershed which immediately makes me think of the loss of water. But the blackened color and liquid look makes me think about how it should be water, but obviously something happened to it. The typeface referenced is not recognizable to me nor was it listed on the page I found this on. It is inspirational because of how clear and clever the message is. It makes me want to read any body text that is present. 

This poster is made with Sabon. It was made to show how Sabon can be used in a nice way. It is successful because it shows how elegant and classic Sabon is through placement and words used throughout. It is inspiring to me because Sabon is usually a...

This poster is made with Sabon. It was made to show how Sabon can be used in a nice way. It is successful because it shows how elegant and classic Sabon is through placement and words used throughout. It is inspiring to me because Sabon is usually a typeface that is not used in a decorative way, but in this case they used it to decorate the page.

This is a book cover for Graphic Design The New Basics. The typeface used for the title is Knockout. I think this cover is successful in that it uses a simple but stylish typeface to get the point across that the book is about the basics of design,...

This is a book cover for Graphic Design The New Basics. The typeface used for the title is Knockout. I think this cover is successful in that it uses a simple but stylish typeface to get the point across that the book is about the basics of design, but the NEW basics. This inspires me like my last post because it is simple and clean design and it gets its point across perfectly, which is what I always try to do with my design.

This work is in our book Shaping Text by Jan Middendorp. The work was done by Mieke Gerritzen, a Dutch designer. The typeface she used is Helvetica Bold. It is very inspiring to me because it is simple, which is what I like to do with my work. It is...

This work is in our book Shaping Text by Jan Middendorp. The work was done by Mieke Gerritzen, a Dutch designer. The typeface she used is Helvetica Bold. It is very inspiring to me because it is simple, which is what I like to do with my work. It is successful because it makes perfect use of all of the given space while still not being too busy. This piece was designed for other designers to view, possibly the ones who are newer to the crowd. It is telling us to embrace the limitations we are given instead of hating them because they can take us a long way. I think that Gerritzen definitely practices restraint in this piece and shows how well limitations can work out for us.

Mieke Gerritzen