Steiner

I upload a design I made onto Flickr last night and a guy by a nickname redbrock suggested I should try Steiner – I will give it a go. 

Dream

Often in dreams you see faces you can recognize and some faces that
you can't identify.

Sent from my iPhone

to scale from A4 to A3 in Adobe InDesign

I am working on a poster and a common thing client does is changing their mind about the size of the poster - first they would say "I just want an A4" then a few days later they want A3 and usually I would scale the elements up manually by hold on Shift and drag because I couldn't be bother to work out what percentage I should type in to ask InDesign to scale up for me. But today I took the time to work it out by trial and error method. 

And the magic number is: 141.5%

Note

NoteI like how it is warm and quiet in my apartment, then I go down to the street it is cold and busy, then I walk five minutes I am at the office where it is warm and busy. I like that.

Import Window

Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop CS4

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-cs4/videos/selections-tips-cs4-video.html

MoMA: The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934

While I was looking up on El Lissitzky I came across this site - an exhibition by MoMA in 2002 - I like the bright warm red on a soft cool blue.
Check out this online exhibition and learn a bit about graphic design history.

Piet Zwart

How do I know about Piet Zwart? It started with Huffer - the logo to be specific, it reminds me of some old iconographic I saw in a design history book. Flicking through the pages and I saw it - the Huffer logo is exactly the icon that Piet Zwart created in 1924 for the NKF catalogue.

The Netherlands, 1885 - 1977

http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Piet-Zwart/

Happy Worker

www.happyworker.com

Vancouver 2010 website

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Design Assembly in NZ

http://www.designassembly.org.nz/

Logos

Book: China Design Now

Book details: Lauren Parker (Author), Zhang Hongxing (Author)

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1636_chinadesignnow/

Food Chain by Genevieve Gauckler

http://www.bigactive.com/illustration/genevieve-gauckler/food-chain

Adobe Kuler

http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/

Jonathan Harris

www.number27.org

Paul Rand

Paul Rand (1914–1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs.

Among these young Americans it seems to be that Paul Rand is one of the best and most capable [. . .] He is a painter, lecturer, industrial designer, [and] advertising artist who draws his knowledge and creativeness from the resources of this country. He is an idealist and a realist, using the language of the poet and business man. He thinks in terms of need and function. He is able to analyze his problems but his fantasy is boundless. [1]
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[1] www.paul-rand.com (Paul Rand: A Brief Biography)

Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee, born in 1975, is a Korean photographer based in Seoul, Korea. The Tree series has prompted references to diverse traditions in the history of photography, including landscape photography, anthropological field studies, studio portraiture, fashion, staged photography, cinematic projections, surrealism, and billboard advertising. [1]

BA in Photography (2003) and MA in Photography (2005)
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[1] Excerpt from a 16-page feature Tree by Jim Casper in Foam magazine #15 / July 2008.

Sze Tsung Leong

Sze Tsung Leong is an American-Chinese photographer, born in Mexico. Now 38 and he travels extensively photographing landscapes and cityscapes around the world. He is a qualified architect but turned to photography and had made it a career. It is apparent his photography references his architecture background. I really like the History series of cities in China.
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The picture above is taken from the Horizons series.

Zhang Huan 張洹

Zhang Huan (張洹) is an internationally recognised Chinese contemporary artist. Born in 1965 in He Nan Province, China. Before you read anything more about him, you should visit this gallery of behind-the-scene photos which will give you a glimpse of the type of work he does.

Picture source: Phaidon Publishing.