Assignment 00
Design Research Presentation

Research and present a close reading of 3 works by one of the designers listed below. Your presentation should be in PDF format designed for screen (1400×850px) and should take 5 minutes total. The list will be updated weekly. No repeats. Put care into the design and layout of your presentation.

Your presentation should include:
• basic biographical information
• a conceptual & compositional analysis of each work

• a sense of the context in which each work was made; who commissioned the work, when and where was it made, for what purpose?
• cited sources (they should not all be online)

Designer List

Herbert Bayer
Max Bill
Jan Tschichold
Piet Zwart

Saul Bass
Anthony Froshaug
Milton Glaser
Armin Hoffman
Karel Martens
Grapus

Josef Müller-Brockmann
Jan van Toorn

Wolfgang Weingart

Neville Brody

David Carson

Art Chantry

Studio Dumbar

Ed Fella

Graphic Thought Facility
April Greiman
Stefan Sagmeister
Paula Scher
Rick Valicenti

Rudy Vanderlans
Cornel Windlin

Mevis & van Deursen
Experimental Jetset
Maureen Mooren & Daniel van der Velden
Frank Chimero
James Victore
Paul Sahre
2x4
Lester Bealle
Massimo Vignelli
Pentagram
Wim Crouwel
Louise Filli
Lance Wyman
Herb Lubalin
Natasha Jen
Irma Boom