David Airey

David Airey is a design author and brand identity designer. He have a passion for design, and makes a living by creating visual identities for companies of all sizes. His client-list includes the likes of Yellow Pages (Canada), Giacom (England), and Berthier Associates (Japan).

He writes two popular graphic design blogs, logodesignlove.com and davidairey.com, attracting more than 250,000 online visitors per month and approximately 1 million monthly page views. He is the editor at his newest venture, Identity Designed — a site featuring the work of some excellent studios.

I chose to write about this David Airey as I was looking through his portfolio and his advertisements and some of them are really just fantastic. They are humorous and really make you say.. "oh yeah! I get it" Those kind of design to me are the best. Here are a few examples of the ones I found the best below:

Deborah Sussman

Deborah Sussman has worked at the interface of graphic design and the built environment for more than 30 years. She has created striking visual imagery and devised its imaginative application for architectural and public spaces both permanent and temporary, including the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Seattle’s opera house, and Disney World. Throughout her career Sussman has claimed an ever more expansive role for graphic design in the urban landscape.

Sussman uses graphic design to emphasize aspects of the built environment and to provide rich connections to the communities and cultures in which it will participate.

I chose to put Sussman on my blog because she is a legend and shes a woman! Most of the greatest graphic designers are men so I wanted to do a little research on what woman have played their parts in graphic design and how well they have done for themselves and other companies. I am not very familiar with Deborah Sussman but I have seen her work around and about and it is very good.

“Although environmental graphic design started as architectural signage—hence, graphics—a flat discipline turned out to be inadequate in a round world. An exhibition, for example, is more than a book on a wall or an arrangement of artifacts under glass. It is the engagement of people as they move through space. Sussman/Prejza carries this engagement into stores and other public spaces, and into designed events—a contextual approach that brought the company international renown with the 1984 summer Olympics.”

—Ralph Caplan, “Beyond Sussman/Prejza: Jungle Rhythms in Environmental Graphic Design,” Process Architecture 124, 1994.

Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn (born 1964) is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists)

Perhaps best known for Alison Lapper Pregnant, a sculpture of Alison Lapper which has been installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, "Self", a sculpture of his head made with his own frozen blood, and "Garden" (2000). He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) and is known for his innovative use of materials to make art, including blood, ice, faeces, etc., his use of bringing scientific developments into art, and his designs for "discussion-generating" artworks.




















I have chosen Marc Quinn as one of my artists as I am always intrigued with what unpredictable designs and concepts he will be coming out with next. He always produces exciting statues/ sculptures using different materials.

The thing that I like best about his work is that he has made people such as Alison Lapper feel so much more confident in herself as she was put on the plinth at Trafalgar Square (well her life sized statue was) and people could not see her as being a freak but see her body as being beautiful and see how different yet amazing this art was and how she lived her life with her child. He truely saw something in her that he knew the public had to see. Some say it was cruel, yet others look at her and other amputees in a different light now.

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, and in 2010 around Madison Square in New York City.


















Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or "the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside." His work attempts to treat the body not as an object but a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical — a trace of a real event of a real body in time.




















I remember going to see his work in Liverpool on Crosby Beach with my old college friends. It was a good day out, but I was just a little worried if boats were to come in and not see them when the tide comes in as they have no lights on them etc. But they are a spectacular sight to just stand there and watch as the sun is setting.












The sculpture consists of 100 cast iron figures which face out to sea, spread over a 2 mile (3.2 km) stretch of the beach. Each figure is 189 cm tall (nearly 6 feet 2½ inches) and weighs around 650 kg (over 1400 lb).
In common with most of Gormley's work, the figures are cast replicas of the artist's own body. As the tides ebb and flow, the figures are revealed and submerged by the sea.

Quirky yet random design that in my opinion is brilliant.

Niki De Saint Phalle

Niki De Saint Phalle has always been one of my most favourite artists. She was a French sculptor, painter and film maker.

De Saint Phalle rejected the staid, conservative values of her family, which dictated domestic positions for wives and particular rules of conduct. However, after marrying young and giving birth to two children, she found herself living the same bourgeois lifestyle that she had attempted to reject; the internal conflict caused her to suffer a nervous breakdown. As a form of therapy, she was urged to pursue her painting.

After the "Shooting paintings" came a period when she explored the various roles of women. She made life size dolls of women, such as brides and mothers giving birth. They were usually dressed in white. They were primarily made of polyester with a wire framework. They were generally created from papier mache.




















Influenced by Gaudí´s Parc Güell in Barcelona, and the garden in Bomarzo, de Saint Phalle decided that she wanted to make something similar; a monumental sculpture park created by a woman. In 1979, she acquired some land in Garavicchio, Tuscany, about 100 km north-west of Rome along the coast. The garden, called Giardino dei Tarocchi in Italian, contains sculptures of the symbols found on Tarot cards. The garden took many years, and a considerable sum of money, to complete. It opened in 1998, after more than 20 years of work.

I think her work is absolutely amazing and I will be planning a visit there soon to see this spectacular garden.

Here are some pictures below of what is contained in her Tarot Garden in Tuscany:

Heineken Advert 2010

This advert must be one of the most funniest adverts I have ever seen. It does not matter that the beginning is in a different language the communication and the humour of this whole advert is just pure genius!

Cadbury - Spots vs Stripes advert

This is one of the best comic ideas for commercials, managing to both capture attention and generate a laugh. It is a battle of the fish- spots vs stripes. The music I think makes it more chaotic and a lot funnier, also the graphics are very well presented and it look so much better in high definition.