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I found this image in the book "Extreme Design". It caught my eye because of all the typography and imagery the designer used to design this flyer. It was made for a band named DeBeyerd. I really think the designer put a lot of thought into this piece because there is so much going on in this design and everything seems to be in place. Nothing seems too bright, loud, out of place or tacky. It's a great design and it seems to be a famous band!

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This image was found in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design". I really didn't understand the concept of this design until I looked at it a little closer. I really thought it was clever how it's someone walking all over a heart. It caught my eye and made me want to know more about the image. I thought the designer was very creative in making this piece and really put some thought into his work.

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This image was designed for a magazine ad for Safaricom. I found this image in the book "World Graphic Design" by Geoffrey Caban. I really liked this design because we just did a few tutorials on ads for a band. I thought the cleverness of text placement, color and gradients were very unique and it really brought out the text and helped the text stand out. I really like this design and it can inspire many.

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I found this design in the book "World Graphic Design" by Geoffrey Caban. This design really caught my eye because we are currently working on a project similar to this. We are designing the cover of a CD album and this is a design of the CD itself. It has great use of text, imagery, and overall design. This design was used on the CD Cuadro De Horror. I thought this would be a great image for this week for some inspiration on my next project.

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This piece of work was designed by Shepard Fairey for its client Grand Royal Records. I found this piece in the Extreme Design book by Spencer Drate. This piece was designed for a band to show their fans when their upcoming concerts are and where they are located. It looks very similar to some of the tutorials we've been doing in class and I was picking out the pieces I could create in Adobe Illustrator. I really liked this image because it's lous, vibrant and eye-catchy!

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This image was found in the book "Extreme Design" by Spencer Drate. This piece was designed by Dennis Clouse and Traci Daberko for their client One Reel Productions. The concept was WOMAD; World Of Music Art and Dance. It is a 3-day musical and cultural celebration representing a diverse array of global talents annually held in Seattle's Marymoor Park. This piece was designed in the year 200o. I really liked the way the designers used some of the text in the composition and I think they got very creative with the layout.

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I found this image in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design" by Jeremy Aynsley. I thought this image was very unique in a way because of the way the text was being used. It's not any kind of font you may find in Illustrator or Photoshop, it's text that is created by different objects. It reminded me of a project I did in high school with a Digital Photography class. Really unique and interesting, makes me want to see more letters of the alphabet designed this way! Check out this book sometime, it may not be the most recent graphic design book, but it is very creative and has lots of thought process behind all of the designs and images.

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This piece was found in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design" by Jeremy Aynsley. This design was first used for a Vignelli poster for the major furniture manufacturer Knoll International. The typography is unique to me because it is smashed together and you can still read the text. It's different font colors make the piece very unique and the bright colors help the text stand out a lot. The design partnership undertook the graphic programme for this client between 1966 and 1980.

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I found another image in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design" by Jeremy Aynsley. This book has lots of creative graphic design imagery and I think it has lots of great examples for the GDS 120 class. This image, designed by Rand, who worked on IBM's corporate for many years, caught my eye automatically. It's creative imagery really catches the readers attention and gets your brain working! He designed this for a poster that was made for the company in 1981 and I've still seen this image today. It's one of the more newer designs in the book, but possibly the greatest attention-getter in the entire book. IBM called this one of his most ingenious logos for the business.

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I found this image in the "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design" by Jeremy Aynsley. Sutnar, the designer of this image based this design on an image of Charlie Chaplin, who was an admired figure among the artistic avant-garde throughout Europe at the time (1931). This design was successfully admitted to the cover of the Magazine "Zijeme" which means "We Live" and was published by the Union of Czechoslovak Industries and Design. This image is creative in a way because he appears to be walking on the building in three different places. It's very unique and creative.

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I found another image from the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design" by Jeremy Aynsley. The designer of this piece was created by a man called Bayer. It was used on the cover of the magazine Die Neue Linie in 1938. He adapted montage ideas making experimental modernist ideas more acceptable to a wider public. He created this to show that he was leaving the Bauhaus, Berlin. I thought it was unique in a way because I wouldn't understand why he put the shoe prints across the design had I not read the description. Great piece, nice use of colors and very catchy to the viewer's eye.

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I chose this design created by Koloman Moser in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design" by Jeremy Aynsley. The reason I chose this design is because the imagery and typography really stand out and is so unique that it catches the reader's attention immediately. The image appeared on the cover of a magazine called Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring). The magazine specialized in poetry and aesthetic philosophy as well as promoting the new aesthetic way of life. It was a very illuminating design and it stood out very well.

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This piece was found in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design by Jeremy Aynsley." I chose this coca-cola bottle because it caught my eyes immediately. It seems to have a very sharp look to it. There appears to be lots of line's and shapes instead of just being one boring image. It's calligraphic trademark and the bottle's distinctive shape enhances its identity. I really like this image because it's completely different than any other coca cola bottle I've previously seen. It's unique shape's and line's really catch the reader's eye and focuses on the image as being different and almost abstract.

The image was designed by Asa Candler.

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I found, yet again, another image I thought was very creative in the book "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design." This image was designed by Joost Schmidt and it uses a wide variety of colors, fonts and typography. He designed this for a cover in 1926. It really caught my eyes because its got many different things going on in the image. I think this designer really sat down and thought about this piece. I wish I could create something this creative!! This book really has lots of great examples of impressive designer work. Check this book out sometime!

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I chose this image from "20th Century: A Century of Graphic Design." I picked this image because I really liked the choices of Typography and photography that are being involved in this design. Lots of different angles and fonts are used to make up this piece of artwork. The creator of this image was named Gispen and he created this piece in 1930. Shows how much graphic design has really developed over the past 80 years! I like this piece a lot and it grabbed my attention right when I opened this book.