Paul Rand cont.

i guess i can't edit my posts after i post them...sorry about that. 

i can't figure out the link thing but here are a couple of sites with some of Mr. Rands work

-http://38one.com/cleverblog/The-message

-http://arh346.blogspot.com/2007/11/paul-rand-1914-is-one-of-most.html

This link goes straight to his packaging designs but this whole site is about him check it out

-http://paul-rand.com/packaging.shtml

The interesting thing i learned at this site was his wife and him wrote children's books here are some of the illustrations:

+http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/tribute-to-a-legend-paul-rand/

+http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/books/these_childrens_books_are_not_kid_stuff_47429.asp

Paul Rand

While reading about Paul Rand i noticed some ideas that i guess inspired me.  One of those ideas is a quote from the video on Andreas blog when Rand says, "Don't try to original try to be good."  This is something i think i will need to come back to over and over again because i get caught up in trying to think of new things and yes this is important but in the end it either becomes to complicated or ineffective.  Another idea that stood out and supports the just try to be good idea i found on paul-rand .com where Rand is quoted saying a logo "cannot survive unless it is designed with the utmost simplicity and restraint"  a theory he calls minimalism.  This is so true in the logos that Rand created and are still around today are so simple yet almost everyone would recognize the fonts in almost any context.  I would also like to thank Mr.Rand after reading from the Misawa Lecture by Paul Rand for being the man who opened the doors of opportunity for my peers and I. To Mr. Rand for for raising the status of Graphic Art to be a Fine Art and a fine art it is indeed.