Beginning of last month me and my classmates went to London for a few days. We had a chance to visit a design agency called Dew Gibbons where we met Dave. Dave gave us a presentation on what sort of design work they do and how he got a job there. At the end of the talk we had a chance to ask Dave some questions but unfortunately I couldn't think of any questions to ask at the time so I thought I would e-mail him the questions that I am e-mailing other design agencies about what influences as designers. I e-mailed Dave thanking him for the talk and visit to their studio. Dave finally got back to me regrading my questions about influences.

I got another e-mail back regarding influences as a graphic designer. Steve from Peek Creative gave very helpful answers.

Keith Morrell from Gouka Design got back to me about questions regrading influences.

I got another positive and helpful answers back from Nik J Gill from Remix Creative regarding my questions based on influences.

Another Swiss graphic design named Josef Müller-Brockmann. I really like his work, the Beetoven poster which feels like it is moving. Link!

Here are some posters by Swiss designer Armin Hofmann. I really like the space used in these poster to show the message.

Some Swiss museum posters I found on someones blog. I like the hypnotic lines. Link!

I really like this typeface. I'm looking for typeface that I can use for my FMP. Link!

Cool typefaces! Link! Really nice to different materials used to make some these typefaces.

This is a cool periodic table with a difference.

"Presentation skills are very necessary to be a good data miner/business intelligence analyst. A good presenter would have attention to detail, including the typeface used in his presentation. Helvetica is the most widely used sans serif typeface and has been a very popular choice of many corporate wordmarks. Below is a cool periodic table of typefaces created by Squidspot and all the typefaces are ranked on popularity (based on several sources of data) and Helvetica is Number One." (http://thedmblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/helvetica/ 15.04.10 10.15pm)

Influences - North Star Design

Chris from North Star Design is a design agency kindly replied to my email regarding influences.

Influences

Today I got a reply back from Cactus Creative a design agency in the north west. I sent the email to Niki who kindly passed it on to Matthew who was happy to answer my questions regarding influences as a graphic designer.

I have sent over 50 e-mails to different design agencies and some have got back to me say their to busy or will replay later.

More street art, don't know who its by.

I found this image very interesting, the water is made by logo pieces. I don't who this work is by.

I was researching for some street art and came across a designer named Edgar Mueller. Mueller paints the streets and looking at a certain angle they look believable.

Illusion Art

These are painted animals on someones hand, they look really cool! Link!

As I was researching for adverts i came across these weird Sony PlayStation adverts. Some of these are really weird looking and to promote the games console.

As I am doing a new identity for the Manchester Art Gallery for my FMP, it was a good idea to visit the gallery. I will upload my images soon!