unite grow evolve coexist to exist in mutual tolerance despite different ideologies or interest Project: Coexist poster Course: Visual Systems Year: Fall 2007
Project: Quench Publication: Why Wheatgrass Course: Typography III Year: Spring 2008
Project: FullPage Text Layout Course: Typpography II Year: Fall 2007 Name: Michelle LaHam
Project: Panacea business system Course: Advanced Problems Year: 2008
Project: Panacea website Course: Advanced Problems Year: 2008 In efforts to expand Hemp Industries Association s audience, I designed a new system of icons to move away from common imagery and to help educate the public.
were famous for being the first seafaring business transactions which led to the adapted and applied to other languages. EGYPT G 3200 B.C. PHOENICIA 1000 B.C. GREECE 800 B.C. Q. WHAT TYPE OF SOCIETY RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALPHABETIC SYSTEM NEEDED FOR RECORD KEEPING DURING THE SECOND MILLENIUM B.C. IN PHOENICIA? A. MERCHANT B. FARMING C. MILITARISTIC D. SCHOLARLY Known for their shipbuilding skills, the Phoenicians marketeers, trading wth nearly every coast in the Mediterranean. They needed to efficiently record development of the phonetic alphabet. Because these signs were connected to spoken sound instead of pictorial meaning, this system was easily CULTURAL CONTEXT OF GRAPHIC DESIGN, 2008 RESEARCH AND DESIGN, MICHELLE LAHAM SOURCES: MEGG S HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN, 4TH EDITION Project: Phoenician alphabet poster Course: Cultural Context of Graphic Design Year: Spring 2008
Project: Morris F. Benton poster Course: Cultural Context of Graphic Design Year: Spring 2008
Project: CD packaging Client: Mark Duval & TwoTrack Mind Year: 2008
Project: Radiohead In Rainbows CD packaging Course: Design Applications Year: Spring 2008
Project: Annual Student Exhibition announcement and modular poster Client: Richmond Center for Visual Arts Year: Fall 2008
Project: AIGA s Suuppaa Pop! Package Design From Japan announcement and exhibition design Client: Richmond Center for Visual Arts Year: Fall 2008
Project: Freitag designatruck contest Course: Typography III Year: Spring 2008 Name: Michelle LaHam Submission to an international contest for the design of trucktarps. Freitag, which is the name of the company, also means Friday in German. Taking inspiration from the name I used the idea of getting through the work week. Montag. Dienstag. Mittwoch. Donnerstag. Kommen Sie hier. in German means Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Arrive Here.
Project: Typographic clock face Course: Type I Year: Spring 2007
Project: Communicate postcard Communicate: AIGA Student Exhibition Year: Fall 2008 An AIGA student show organized by Western Michigan s chapter. Participants designed and mailed communication inspired postcards to other Michigan chapters, culminating in an exhibition at Devries Student Gallery.
Project: Letterform anatomy stamp collection Course: Visual Systems Year: Fall 2007 Inspired from typography components.
Project: Snowboard flash animation Course: Special Topics Year: Fall 2008 A flash animation utilizing layerings of animated vector graphics, photography, video, and sound. Total length is 60 seconds.
Walter Gropius influenced by the ideas of William Morris, he established the Arts and Crafts School in Weimar, which became the worldfamous Bauhaus. He became the director and had a genius to picking staff of leading and individualistic Modernists. He intented to bring a unity to all the arts and sought to solve problems of visual design created by industrialism. Wassily Kandinsky beleived in the autonomy and spiritual values of color and form led to the courageous emancipation of his painting from the motif and from representational elements. Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners, the course on advanced theory as well as conducting painting classes and a workshop where he completed his color theory with new elements of form psychology. Walter Gropius influenced by the ideas of William Morris, he established the Arts and Crafts School in Weimar, which became the worldfamous Bauhaus. He became the director and had a genius to picking staff of leading and individualistic Modernists. He intented to bring a unity to all the arts and sought to solve problems of visual design created by industrialism. Wassily Kandinsky beleived in the autonomy and spiritual values of color and form led to the courageous emancipation of his painting from the motif and from representational elements. Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners, the course on advanced theory as well as conducting painting classes and a workshop where he completed his color theory with new elements of form psychology. 1919 BAUHAUS SCHOOL OPENS IN WEIMER GERMANY THE BAUHAUS The Bauhaus was the logical consequence of a German concern for design in industrial society that began in the opening years of the century. Characterized by the utopian desire to create a new spiritual society, the early Bauhaus sought a new unity of artists and craftsmen to build for the future. The main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology. Ideas from all the advanced art and design movements were explored, combined, and applied to problems of functional design and machine production at the German design school. Twentiethcentury furniture, architecture, product design, and graphics were shaped by the work of its faculty and students, and a modern design aesthetic emerged. László MoholyNagy was central to the school s shift to a functionalist materialbased approach to design. He proved himself to be an impressive graphic designer, exploiting his facility with photographic processes to stunning effect. He also designed most of the Bauhaus books which helped spread the school s ideas. His passion for typography and photography inspired a Bauhuas interest in visual communications and led to important experiments in the unification of these two arts. He saw graphic design, particularly the poster, as evolving toward typophoto. He called this objective integration of work and image to communicate a message with immediacy the new visual literature. 1922 Wassily Kandinsky is appointed to teaching the Preliminary Course and becomes Master of Form in the Wall Painting Workshop Wassily Kandinsky László MoholyNagy Herbert Bayer 1923 László MoholyNagy is appointed Master of Form in the Metal Workshop and takes over the Preliminary Course, assisted by Josef Albers Josef Albers becomes the first student appointed to the staff as a Young Master The Bauhaus attract international attention from a week of special activities including lectures, theatrical performances and concerts Ludwig Mies van der Rohe As a trained stonemason as well as apprentice to Peter Behrens, he became interested in expressionism in architecture and furniture design. He became involved in the International Modern movement and coined the saying less is more. imitated worldwide, Mies became arguably the most influential architext. Mies advocated a "spatial implementation of intellectual decisions", which effectively meant an adoption of his own aesthetics. 1925 Bauhaus moves to Dessau Young Masters are appointed to Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Hinnerk Scheper, Joost Schmidt and Gunta Stölz Herbert Bayer teaches visual communication and established a lowercase sanserif type making significant contributions to the typographic revolution. NEW BAUHAUS SCHOOL FOUNDED IN CHICAGO 1937 The first Bauhaus book appears 1926 Bauh desig 1919 BAUHAUS SCHOOL OPENS IN WEIMER GERMANY THE BAUHAUS The Bauhaus was the logical consequence of a German concern for design in industrial society that began in the opening years of the century. Characterized by the utopian desire to create a new spiritual society, the early Bauhaus sought a new unity of artists and craftsmen to build for the future. The main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology. Ideas from all the advanced art and design movements were explored, combined, and applied to problems of functional design and machine production at the German design school. Twentiethcentury furniture, architecture, product design, and graphics were shaped by the work of its faculty and students, and a modern design aesthetic emerged. 1922 Wassily Kandinsky is appointed to teaching the Preliminary Course and becomes Master of Form in the Wall Painting Workshop Wassily Kandinsky László MoholyNagy Herbert Bayer Walter Gropius Hannes Meyer Marcel Breuer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1923 1925 1926 1927 1928 1930 1932 1933 László MoholyNagy is appointed Bauhaus moves to Dessau Bauhaus moves into new buildings Hannes Meyer is appointed to teach Gropius resigns as director and moves Hannes Meyer is removed as Bauhaus Local Dessau parliament, now controlled by National Socialists, decide to Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor Master of Form in the Metal Workshop designed by Gropius the new architecture department to Berlin director because of his involvement in and takes over the Preliminary Course, Young Masters are appointed to Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Hinnerk Mies van der Rohe is offered director stormtroopers left wing political activities close the Bauhaus 32 students are arrested by police and assisted by Josef Albers Scheper, Joost Schmidt and Gunta ship but declines Temporary closure of the Bauhaus due Mies decides to continue the school as Josef Albers becomes the first student Stölz to student protest and unrest a private institution in Berlin Bauhaus cis closed on July 20th appointed to the staff as a Young Hannes Meyer becomes Gropius s Master Herbert Bayer teaches visual communication and established a lowercase position as Director of the Bauhaus. successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe accepts the Bauhaus moves to Berlin The Bauhaus attract international sanserif type making significant Free painting classes are given by Klee The Dessau buildings are used as attention from a week of special activities including lectures, theatrical lution. bentmetal chair National Socialist party contributions to the typographic revo and Kandinsky for the first time Marcel Breuer pioneers the use of the training school for members of the performances and concerts The first Bauhaus book appears NEW BAUHAUS After the Bauhaus was finally shut down by the Nazis the educational principles found fertile soil in the United States. Several former members of the Bauhaus emigrated to the United States where they were able to give full scope to their artistic ideas. László MoholyNagy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago with expectations to attract students from all over the world. Their goal was to establish a school of design that would meet the needs of industry and reintegrate the artist into the life of the nation. The ideas and principles rooted at the Bauhaus in Germany has impacted modern design, architecture, and visual communications trends throughout the world. A modernist approach to visual education was developed, and the faculty s classpreparation and teaching methods made a major contribution to visual theory. Project: Bauhaus timeline poster & books Course: Design Applications Year: Spring 2008
Project: AH HA! BFA in Graphic Design Exhibition & Invitation/Poster Course: Graduation Presentation Year: Spring 2009 Name: Michelle LaHam A collaboratively curated exhibit with the graduating class. The theme AH HA! refers to the moment of realization in visual communication for both the interpretor as well as the translator.
Project: Alehaus modular posters Course: Typography III Year: Spring 2009 Design: Collaboration with class of 20
CHICAGO 9 PARTS OF DESIRE Project: University Theatre promotional posters Client: Western Michigan University Theatre Department Year: 2009
Project: Shed the Light Process Book Course: Senior Thesis Year: 2009