Yugo Nakamura

Yugo Nakamura is a web designer and is highly regarded as one of the worlds most innovative designers for the web. He is also a creative director, designer and engineer who explores various forms of interactive systems in digital and networked environments.

Yugo Nakamura is renowned for the complexity of the interactive animations that he does on websites his own website he has used animations which look very complex. One of his most important influences was John Maeda. Who was born in Nara 1970, which was the ancient capital of Japan, he originally studied civil engineering and landscape architecture at Tokyo University. After graduation, Nakamura spent had four years working on bridge some building projects. He has exhibited in a number of places throughout his life which include London, Paris and Vienna. He has also done a number of lectures and has won many awards.

His website: http://yugop.com/

Meta Design

MetaDesign is one of Europe's most respected design agencies for over ten years. Its portfolio of services that they do are strategic brand management and design implementation of complex corporate identities and images and they can also do print production and packaging design. Initially they were set up to start off with in Berlin 1992 by Uli Mayer-Johanssen and Erik Speikermann, Metadesign is now in 4 different places which has offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zurich, they also employ over 100 people, they are also doing global branding for Adobe, Volkswagen, Audi and Lufthansa which are all very well known companies. They have also won a number of awards throughout the years.

Their website: http://www.metadesign.com/ 

Peter Saville

Peter Saville is a British graphic designer. Born in Manchester in 1955, has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music. Since his first work for Factory Records in the late 1970s, Peter Saville Having been introduced to graphic design with his friend Malcolm Garrett by Peter Hancock, their sixth form art teacher.

Saville decided to study graphics at Manchester Polytechnic, where Garrett soon joined him. At the time bands like Kraftwerk and Roxy Music obsessed Saville, but Garrett encouraged him to discover the work of early modern movement typographers such as Herbert Bayer and Jan Tschichold. He found their elegantly ordered aesthetic more appealing than the anarchic style of punk graphics. Tschichold was the inspiration for Saville’s first commercial project, the 1978 launch poster for The Factory, and a club night run by a local TV journalist Tony Wilson.

Sought out by a younger generation for his signature, Saville’s work became increasingly self-referential. Not only was he photographed for Suede’s Film Star, but The Apartment was a set in the cover of Pulp’s This Is Hardcore. Meanwhile advances in image manipulation software enabled him to digitally rework images, rather than having to work with sourced imagery

He has created album artwork for acts such as Joy Division, New Order and, later, Suede and Pulp and by the mid-1980s, Saville’s reputation as a designer of music graphics was assured and he was sought-after by mainstream acts such as Wham! and Peter Gabriel, No longer involved with SHOW studio, he continues to recycle his own work, alongside that of others.

Colour and Form, 2002
Design Museum web site identity
Design: Peter Saville

Tomato

Rick Smith and Karl Hyde founded Tomato as an art design collective at the turn of the 1990s by nine people based in London, two of whom are of the electronic music group Underworld.

Their primary function is mainly in television and print advertising, corporate identity, fashion, architecture, public speaking, art installations, clothing, and of course, exhibitions and live performances for music artists all designed from Underworld's depth of talent and various channels of output. In its existence, They have also built an international reputation for broadly working across different sections of the various medias, developing platforms for many multi media projects in the commercial world along with research based projects creating graphic designs for all manner of clients such as Reebok, Adidas and Levi's; and identity for museums and cultural centres. They also host many creative workshops for company’s in the advertising world

Tomato regards itself as an art and design collective rather than as a design and communication agency.

Tomato has offices in New York and Tokyo as well as a film production company, Tomato Films and their effective multi collaboration continues toda

Website: http://www.tomato.co.uk/

April Germain

April Germain born in 1948 is recognised as one f the first designers to use computer technology as a design tool and with Jayme Odgers created New Wave’ design style in the US during the late 70s and early 80s In 1984, she lobbied successfully to change the department name to Visual Communications, as she felt the term “graphic design” would prove too limiting to future designers. She then returned to full-time practice and acquired her first Macintosh computer.

Prior to the mid-80s, designers shunned computers, viewing them as challenges to the crispness of the International style. However, Greiman did not feel that this should be a limitation, and embracing the physicality of digital work in terms of pixelation, "errors" in digitization, etc

She produced an issue of Design Quarterly in 1986, notable in its development of graphic design. Entitled Does it make sense?, the edition was edited by Mildred Friedman and published She re-imagined the magazine as a poster that folded out to almost three-by-six feet. It contained a life-size, MacVision-generated image of her outstretched naked body adorned with symbolic images and text— a provocative gesture, which emphatically countered the objective, rational and masculine tendencies of modernist design.

This is the "Hand Holding a Bowl of Rice"

Greiman completed her largest ever work: a public mural, "Hand Holding a Bowl of Rice," spanning "seven stories of two building facades marking the entrance to the Wilshire Vermont Metro Station in Los Angeles and still teaches today in universites. 

Her website: http://aprilgreiman.com/