Milton Glaser

 Milton Glaser -- born 26. 6. 1929 in New York, USA

The Type Museum

http://www.typemuseum.org/visit.htm

Not open to the public, but if prior arranged you can get in there and have a look around. A must for any designer!

The Type Museum
100 Hackford Road
London SW9 0QU

Telephone 020 7735 0055

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid (born 1952) is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note, came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK.

• http://www.jamiereid.org/
• wikipedia

Storm Thorgerson

Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy (Pre-Photoshop)

 Storm Thorgerson (1944) A Royal College of Art student, Founded Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell in 1968. Many of his designs are notable for their surreal elements. He often places objects out of their traditional contexts, especially with vast spaces around them, to give them an awkward appearance while highlighting their beauty.

100 Best Album Covers, ISBN 0789446154

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Pre-Photoshop)

• http://www.stormthorgerson.com/
• wikipedia

Syd Barett - The Madcap Laughs (one of my favorite covers)

Peter Saville

Ever since his first work for the fledgeling Factory Records in the late 1970s, PETER SAVILLE has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music, his work combines an unerring elegance with a remarkable ability to identify images that epitomise the moment.

• More on wikipedia
• What the Design Museum says

Letter Press Studio

What is a Professional Development folder?

It is ideally an A4 Folder that contains all the Briefs / Transcripts from verbal briefs / Work sheets / work diary / etc.

This folder shows us your professionalism, how you order your practice and to some extent how much you care.

What are Research Folders?

It is ideally an A4 Folder that contains anything that you have got that does not go in the: Professional Development File, Sketch Book or A2 Portfolio . An example would be leaflets from galleries, photocopies of pages out of books, newspaper cuttings, emails (that were relevant), etc.

We need to see that your not just looking at the web for research. So show us that you have looked at different places for research.

Pixley Print House

Another print house to print your A2 work. located just off Commercial Road in the East end of London.

"We are flexible in our approach and maintain multiple sample books so as to meet your exact requirements.

Open 24 hours a day, with quick turn around times, we offer a "while you wait" service on small orders or alternatively we can notify you when your prints are ready. If you prefer, it is possible to email your files to us or upload them via our website, meaning you only have to make the one journey. We also offer a delivery service for completed work for a small additional cost."

Risograph printing

Check out dittopress.co.uk for some contemporary Graphic Design in block colours.

Bitmat vs Vectors vs Pdf's

A guide to the difference between these file formats

CMYK and RGB color

RGB color, red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The main purpose of the RGB color model is for the sensing, representation, and display of images in electronic systems, such as televisions and computers, though it has also been used in conventional photography

CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black.

Graphic Designers need to understand what this is and how it effects them when designing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rgb