Context of Practice - Task 3

List of Designers, Creatives or Agencies
  1. Sveinn Porri Davidsson
  2. Keeta Dean Dixon
  3. Jakob Holmsberg - Liquid Minds
  4. Rikke Otte
  5. Jonathan Calugi
  6. Kasper Pyndt
  7. The Campana Brothers
  8. Sarah Jane Williams
  9. Jonathan Barnbrook
  10. Michelle Brook
  11. Hiromura Design
  12. Mike and Maaike
  13. Diane Gromala
  14. Jenny Wilson
  15. Nancy Nowacek
  16. Fred Flade
  17. Marian Bantjes
  18. Bruce Mau
  19. NR2154
  20. Kasper Ledet
  21. Bjørn Ortmann - Daddy Studio
  22. Matthew the Horse
  23. Monsieur Cabinet
  24. Bethmadethis
  25. Noah Z. Jones
  26. Peter Cusack
  27. Mattias Adolfson
  28. Sophie Henson
  29. Michael Munday
  30. Asako Masunouchi
  31. John Gilsenan
  32. Irma Gruenholz
  33. Caroline Waite
  34. Kristin McFarlane
  35. Havas-City
  36. James Datz
  37. Brian Ulrich
  38. Massimo Vignelli
  39. Triboro
  40. Frank Chimero
  41. Norse Projects
  42. Dansk Dynamit
  43. Elmgreen & Dragset
  44. Daniel Slim - Flydende Lava
  45. Emil Hartvig Studio
  46. Kontrapunkt
  47. Christian Zander - The Emperor of Antarctica
  48. Philip Dam Roadley - Battin
  49. Knud V. Engelhardt
  50. Kristian Grove Møller - Kriss Creol
  51. Viggo Mörck
  52. Fabien Barral
  53. Stefano Joker Lionetti
  54. Viktor Hertz
  55. Ramona Todoca

Group/Company/Agency:
NR2154
NR2154 is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Copenhagen and New York established by Troels Faber and Jacob Wildschiødtz.
NR2154 creates visual identities, logos, typography, exhibitions, books, magazines, websites, films and campaign material. NR2154 is a project number emphasizing that the project always comes first.  The collaboration was initiated in 1996 with the launch of several magazines and the design studio that later became NR2154 was founded in 1999. Today Jacob and Troels are based in New York and Copenhagen respectively. They work independently and together on various projects in the framework of NR2154. 
DENMARK
Vesterbrogade 69D 2sal Baghuset 1620 Copenhagen V Denmark T +45 33 12 14 04
USA
628 Broadway - Suite 400 New York NY 10012 USA T +1 212 203 5806
10 Reasons Why I Like NR2154
  1. one of my biggest inspirations
  2. designing for companies etc that I know of from living in Denmark
  3. love the simplicity of their designs
  4. love the colours and lines they use
  5. have designed things which I see on a daily basis, such as the Nordisk Film logo
  6. won the COP15 logo design competition
  7. like that their work has a concept behind it
  8. like the concept behind the names they give each project and the name of their group
  9. love the way they design to promote sustainability
  10. love how all their work is clean and very modern looking
R2207 / COP15 Copenhagen / United Nations

NR2501 / Planet under Pressure 2012
Visual identity for the international science conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge.



NR1334 / Bruun Furniture
Furniture design company.
Visual identity, misc. printed and electronic matter





Male Designer:
Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli (born 1931 in Milan, Italy) is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage to showroom design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife, Lella.[1][2] He has said, "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," and this is reflected in his broad range of work.[3]
Vignelli works firmly within the Modernist tradition, and focuses on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all of his work.

10 Reasons Why I Like Massimo Vignelli:
  1. pioneering designer
  2. he isn’t afraid of using a good idea twice
  3. his product designs are practical rather than overly decorative
  4. simplistic
  5. works in many different disciplines 
  6. his work never gets old
  7. he focuses on the client rather than his own needs
  8. he has been a massive influence in the American design industry
  9. his branding work is everlasting
  10. subtly beautiful work








Female Designer:
Ramona Todoca 
I am a visual communicator who believes that society and culture can be shaped through 
design. My work reflects this view conceptually across a variety of mediums. My interests include branding, design for sustainability, museums graphics and semiotics. I am currently based in New York city and work as an art director on the IBM account at Ogilvy & Mather.”
Based in New York
Speaks Romanian, English and French
Studied in Savannah, Georgia, USA
10 Reasons Why I Like Ramona Todoca:
  1. she is knew into the graphic design industry as she has only just graduated so her work is “fresh”
  2. her designs are beautiful
  3. she uses lots of different textures in her work
  4. she creates work which allows the audience to interact with it
  5. her work is uplifting and makes me happy 
  6. she seems to thoroughly put her own personality into her work
  7. her work has a subtle humour to it
  8. it is all very clean and simplistic, yet she adds textures and extra features to the designs to give them more personality
  9. i like how most of her work involves books and making the viewer experience the work
  10. she reflects culture and society in her designs and believes strongly in communication
Made in Germany





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