athleen Hale (May 24, 1898, Lanarkshire-January 26 2000, Bristoll) was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books aboutOrlando the Marmalade Cat.

Kathleen Hale was born inBroughton, Lanarkshire and was brought up in a suburb of Manchester. Her childhood was far from idyllic: her father died when she was very young and she was forced to endure long periods of separation from her mother. This, along with the frustrations of an unexpressed artistic talent, produced a rebellious reaction in the young girl's naturally ebullient nature. However, her talent as an artist was recognised at school by a sympathetic headmistress and she went on to attend art courses in Manchester and Reading.

I really like the traditional drawing of the artist. The detail really creates a very interesting image and in turn a very interest story to run along side the images. An example of the detail shown in the small watch on the tail which may or may not be used with in story but creates a very interesting image for the children to react to.

Pentagram

Pentagram is a design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky in Needham Road, West London, UK. They now have offices in New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin.
Pentagram does work in graphic design, identity, architecture, interiors and products. They have designed packaging and products for many well known companies, such as Tesco, Boots, 3Com, Swatch, Tiffany & Co, Dell, Netgear, Nike and Timex. They have also developed identities for Unites Airlines, and in 2007 they updated the pop for Saks Fifth Avenue.

I love the colour in these two pieces really create an eye catching image. I don't unfortunately i don't like some of there other work especially with interiors as it dose not interest me and and my point of view is that it is too clean and neat and lack the human aspect in the room.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 -April 25 , 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award winning flimaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen.

During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, and the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Saul Bass designed the 6th AT&T Bell System logo, that at one point achieved a 93 percent recognition rate in the United States. He also designed the AT&T "globe" logo for AT&T after the break up of the Bell System.

Peter Saville

Peter Saville studied Graphic Design at Manchester Polytechnic from 1974 to 1978. Alongside his obsession with the music of Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, and with the photography of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, the book Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer (1969) and the manifesto Die Neue Typographie by Jan Tschichold (1927) were the most important influences on Saville at that time. They remain, even today, standard works on typography. Saville's friendship with fellow student Malcolm Garrett, who had begun designing album covers for the Buzzcocks in 1976, was also of great significance. Unusual for the time, however, was Saville's insistence on recalling a historical consciousness of graphic design. His concern to present products graphically, and thus permit the flow of a visual "Zeitgeist" ran in blatant contradiction to the established teaching methods of the institutions, steeped in the spirit of the 1970s, which regarded graphic communication as time and context free.

Peter Saville has a alot of verity in his work from a colourful version of the american flag to a slimple leaf in a bright background. He also dose work on the computer to create 3D graphic images. He also has created a number of fonts each with they different stlye and impressive images within themselves.

John Maeda

John Maeda is an Japanese-American graphic designer he studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was award his masters degree. He went on to the Tsukuba University to complete a degree in Art and Design. He currently is the E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at MIT and is an associate director of the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Physical Language Workshop with Henry Holtzman.

James Jarvis

Inspired by classic cartoons like Tintin and Popeye, the British illustrator JAMES JARVIS (1970-) has created his own three-dimensional casts of characters as the World of Pain and In-Crowd plastic toys. He also invents imaginary worlds for his characters each of whom has their own role and personality. I like the idea of there creating characters the reflect the societies different groups. But i personal think they are two brash and colourful i think if they were a less "in your face" i think they would work better for me, but i supose if that changed they would loose they origanality.

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry created the White Stripes "Fell in Love with a Girl" video that was created completely in lego pieces that were meant to be put together by the boy at the beginning of the piece. This is a brilliant piece of animation combinded with a different idea to create a new and interesting video.

Gondry started creating films with the french ban Oui Oui, in which he as was the drummer, his style was spotted by Bjork and he directed her video "Human Behaviour" He now has a whole list of artist videos to his name and also a long list of long and short videos.