Artist Series Videos on Legendary Graphic Designers August 26th, 2006 by Mike
Yesterday, my friend and design colleague, Alex Bendiken, shared a video of Paula Scher he saw from the post Picasso, Paula Scher, and the lifetime behind every second on the Signal vs. Noise blog.
In fact, upon visiting Hillman Curtis’ video section to see Paula’s video, I found several other short video documentaries with graphic design greats, and watched all of them in a single sitting.
The collection includes videos of Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, David Carson, James Victore and the Pentagram Design Group.
What a wonderful collection of inspirational videos!
I especially enjoyed the video of David Carson, one of the brash, rebelious designers I followed when I started my professional design career in 1989. Carson had this wild, interpretive design which featured typography pushed into completely new directions. It was Carson who inspired me to push my typography a little farther — check out his video to see the wild designs he’s come up with over the years.
Thanks Adobe and Hillman Curtis for creating the Artist Series films — please keep them coming! I’d love to see more interviews of great designers, including Neville Brody, Rudy van der Lans, Charles S. Anderson, Joe Duffy, Jonathan Ive, and the many other design leaders, while they’re still alive!
August 31st, 2006 at 10:42 am
You are absolutely right. David Carson is a genious. I think his designs are ground-breaking. And with the video you can get a good idea of his work. These artist videos are really quite interesting.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Michael, thanks for the comment! Yes, David Carson’s work was quite groundbreaking — now it may seem less extreme, but you have to remember this was 1990-95 maybe, when computers were just starting to effect design.
Glad you liked the videos!
June 4th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Hello,
I just tried to load the videos, but it seems that my computer is missing a plugin. Can you tell me, what media player i need to view the videos?
thanks
September 17th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Manuel, you need Quicktime I believe.