Vicky Kafkaki – Graphic Design MA Falmouth University

Take a graphic design interest that you are familiar with and investigate how thee idea can be improved, disrupted or retold through a shift of application. For this assignment I decide to do a project “Make a Wish” or “Christmas Wish” I got the idea from one church in Annapolis, Maryland. I was passing by… Read more

 Symbolism and Semiotics – The Theory and Symbolism Behind a Message –  Martin Hosken  ” With the rise of the global communication platforms and commercial markets, the place of graphic advertising as a medium by which messages that promote product, service or idea has become increasingly competitive, complex and sophisticated.  This is our second problem: images carry… Read more

I was thinking to write about Ukraine but since this topic is already taken I decide to go back in history – year 1999 – the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo. I just had arrived in the States and I then was the time when I saw how powerful is the media – it can… Read more

Typography lecture from Kristoffer Soelling  “Back in the days, if you wanted to make a book, you had to do it yourself…  While this system perhaps worked, there was a guy in Germany called Johannes Gutenberg who thought maybe there was a better way. And by many he was ascribed the invention of movable type.… Read more

Take an excerpt from a national poet or writer and transform the task into a single typographic composition: Redesign the first line of text in a style that’s appropriate to the subject – draw it, render it, build it Then take the body of the text and typeset it Be experimental. How does leading, positioning,… Read more

Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. I like her thoughts  on design “Design has an impact in real life.” “Design also needs to intake human behavior in count. For example, horizontal read is always better…” I like her work on the maps Stefanie Posavec is a U.S. designer who… Read more