PHOTOGRAPHERS, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS AND MAGAZINE

CREATORS

NEIL BEDFORD Neil Bedford is a British photographer who has worked with the Indie/Alternative magazine Clash as well as GQ Style and The Green Soccer Journal among his magazine work and with brands such as Adidas and Paul Smith.

His style is unique and simple; his photography of people is often close up which is a style I like and works well for magazines especially for the cover page. Bedford often uses black and white within his photos for a monochrome looks, which makes the images stand out and look individual. Another technique that Bedford uses within his photos is the use of shadows to insinuate features and create empathise on certain aspects of the photo. This technique catches attention and would draw people into the magazine.

EMMA SUMMERTON Emma Summerton is an Australian world renown fashion photographer who works for magazines such as many different international editions of Vogue as well as fashion companies and shops ect alike. Her work is based on the use of highlighting and working with colours, as this allows for her photographs to stand out and attract audiences. Another important aspect of Summerton’s work is scale and texture; she experiments with scale to focus in and the different textures create a contrast within her photos to draw the audiences around the page. These effects and techniques create a modern graphic edge which makes Summerton’s work stand out from the rest.

As shown below colour is an important aspect of her work, which creates an eye catching cover that jumps out at audiences and this is inspired by her Australian roots and upbringing. I personally really like this use of colour and will take this into consideration while creating my magazine.

MIKE MASSARO Mike Massaro is a London based photographer who specialises in shooting portraits, events and commissions within the music industry. He has worked with magazines such as DIY Magazine, music companies such as Universal Music, Island Music and MTV and his music event work includes V Fest.

I was drawn to Massaro for the cover shoot of Bastille he did for the magazine DIY. I really liked the way that the colours of the black and white worked and then the iridescent circle to pull the page together. This use of circles, shadows and light are key factors within Massaro’s work.

RANKIN John Rankin Waddell is a British portrait and fashion photographer and is the co-founder of the magazine Dazed and Confused with Jefferson Hack before then creating his own fashion magazine Rank. Rankin originally started out studying accounting where he dropped out of Brighten University to become a photographer.

Rankin is one of the most successful photographers of the modern age, not only creating his own magazine but also photographing people from the Queen to visual art for the James Bond film Spectre. Rankin also dose charity work for campaigns such as What’s It Going To Take campaign for Women’s Aid.

Rankin is renowned for his portrait photography and his style is based on working with the lighting. He is very focussed on creating the perfect shot with the right lighting and different use of lighting features a lot in his work, he said himself “Cameras just capture light - the rest is about how you find that light, see that light, create that light.” Rankin has a real passion for photography and always wants to create photos and shoots that make the audience feel and introducing new work to the world.

DAVID CARSON David Carson is the art director/creator of the alternative rock and roll magazine Ray Gun. Carson is most well-known for his innovative and modern magazine design which heavily features the use of typography. Typography is the way of design with letters where the text is arranged with different text sizes, spaces between letters and words, line length and types faces/fonts. This looks creates both text that is easy to read and locate which also looks attractive and appealing to audiences. This use of typography is evident from the way that each edition of Ray Gun has a different cover design. The use of working with primarily text in a number of different ways and style is Carson’s signature style, making him renown for being an innovative and quirky graphic designer.

Carson was born in Texas and grew up in Florida the place he calls “most home”. Carson is not just a graphic designer but also when he was younger was a professional surfer and reached the rank of 9th in the world. His design skills and talent really developed when he became absorbed in the bohemian culture and style of South California. His work became later influenced by Hans-Rudolf Lutz a Swiss graphic designer whose workshop Carson attended.

Carson’s graphic design career really took off after he began working for Ray Gun after being hired by Marvin Scott Jarrett to be the designer for the magazine. Working to create Ray Gun allowed Carson’s work to be acknowledge by a wider audience which allowed him to branch off and start his own studio David Carson Design; this lead to Carson working for massive brands such as Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban, Nike, Giorgio Armani and many work which promoted his work to a worldwide scale.

M/M PARIS M/M Paris is an art and design team made up of the French duo Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag. This partnership is most well-known for their work for the French edition of Vogue from 2001-2003 and their collaborations with artists such as Madonna and Kanye West as well as other magazines such as Purple Fashion.

Both Augustyniak and Amzalag did not want to work for anyone else so they collaborated together and created M/M. Their style started off being majorly influenced by post punk designs mixed with the style of from Swiss graphic design schools of emotion and sensitivity. Their design work is expressive and focussed on the fashion, allowing their covers to stand out to audiences. They approach their designs with precision and a clear plan, and their most famous designs start out hand-drawn before then moving to being photographed.

HEIQUITI HARATA HARATA was born in 1947 in Tokyo and graduated from Tokyo National University with a degree in Fine Arts and Music in visual design. Throughout his career HARATA has worked with many different magazine including HEAVEN, GARO, Quick Japan as well as collaborating with artists such as YMO. He is internationally famous and known for his breakthroughs in publication design and has received awards for his work.

HARATA’s style is inspired and based on graphic design and mechanical art, linking in monochrome themes into his work as a foundation and this style is based off Swiss graphics. HARATA is very open to changing his design style as shown by his work with the magazine Heaven, where he incorporates a lot more white space within his design and worked by starting from designing by hand. Every style that HARATA took on has been a perfect balance of colour and construction, of his own ideas and preferences.

KAZUNARI HATTORI Hattori is another Tokyo born graphic designer and magazine creator who was born in 1964. Hattori also graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and after working at Light Publicity Co before started out by himself in 2001. Hattori has worked with the magazines Ryuko Tokyo and Here and There, as well lots of advertising for companies such as East Japan Railway. Hattori has won many different awards for his work and design.

Hattori style is very specific with a lot of attention detail to his work and is happy to accept the unevenness that can occur. Hattori really likes to focus and empathise on the merging of words and visual effects this can create and his style is known for not sticking to the rule book. He creates his own style for each individual l magazine cover based off his own personal likes and preferences.

WORK IN PROGRESS Work In Progress is a creative agency founded by the duo of Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller to create a perfect graphic designer team; Petronio is the business man mixed with creativity and Koller the creative source for their designs. Work In Progress is best known for their French fashion and culture magazine SELF SERVICE and brands such as Chloe , Prada and Miu Miu. SELF SERIVCE is the partnerships most personal and favourite work.

Their work is known for being independent and individual within their respective industries and they like to experiment creatively within their work. They are both personally involved with the whole production with their magazine, which makes their style so unique and show the passion. Typography is another key focus of the duos which makes their work stand out so much as well their unique creativity.