Bernie Fuchs illustration career began in the 1950's, when magazines used much more illustration. He is able to capture everyday mundane activities in interesting and captivating ways. one noticeable thing that is captivating about Fuchs work, has to be the way he uses colour, and depicts light in his work. For example, the light hitting the water in one of the paintings above comes across very life like, making the scene more interesting to look at. 

Robert McGinnis is best known for painting provocative pulp, and detective novel covers, depicting women in seductive poses and in various states of undress. He, just like Fuchs, is able to capture mundane everyday things, in an interesting way. I believe this achieved through his very stylised illustrations and choice of colour.

the collage above is called what makes today so different so appealing and was made by the artist Richard Hamilton. this piece was made for the This is Tomorrow exhibtion, where artists were asked to create work that was in accordance to their vison of the future. for example in Hamilton's work he has an image of what is considered the perfect house wife, with a vaccum. in his work we can also see an image of the moon, which is due to people trying to get to the moon, and the space race between the USA and Russia.

In my 2020 interpretation of his work, I show some of the key things that have happened throughout this year. For example at the start of the year Australia was plagued with severe bush fires that killed both people and animals. Many countries around the world where concerned for the people, and animals of Australia, which led to fundraising to support fire fighters and aid those people and animals that were harmed in this disaster. Another major thing that happened in both 2019, and has continued into 2020, is coronavirus (which is depicted on the walls of the room above). A virus that originally started in a province in china, soon spread across the global leading to a pandemic that we were warned about years before. For 6 months England has been in lockdown which has led to many people turning to games as a way to cope and get through the months of isolation from friends and even family. One of these games was animal crossing new horizons on the switch, which is what many people played to pass the time. Another game that became popular was Among us. even though the game had been out for 2 years before its surge in popularity, people only took note of it this year. Tragically a man died an unjustified death at the hands of the police this year, his name was George Floyd. his death however sparked outrage not only in America but across the globe, and even though we were amidst a pandemic people when out to protest this injustice, and the injustice many African Americans face. these people can be seen through the windows of this room as well as the bush fires in Australia, and the protests that occurred due to the Tory party no longer funding free school meals. Many people in England were upset that children in need would no longer receive a free school meal, which in some cases would be their only meal. Finally there is an image of Boris Johnston leaving the room, which can link back to how he was happily going to leave all the old people to fend for themselves throughout this pandemic, and his reluctance to take ownership of any wrong doings committed.

​Otl Aicher was a influential German graphic designer and typography, born on May the 13th, 1922, and grew up in Ulm, the south western state of Baden-Württemberg. Aicher was a close friend and a classmate of Werner scholl, and met his family who were known for their involvement in white rose, which was a non violent resistance group against the Nazi's. Some of Werner's family members were executed by guillotine for being part of white rose, while Aicher dissented from Nazis tyrannical hold over Germany. In 1937 he was arrested after refusing to join the Hitler youth, which meant he wasn't allowed to make it through his college entrance exam. Eventually being conscripted into the German army to fight in the second world war, which he made several attempts to leave , and when an opportunity presented itself, he deserted the army. The scholl family hid Aicher at their residence in 1945, and when the war finally came to a halt in 1946, he enrolled himself at the academy of fine arts Munich to study sculpture. He married into the scholl family, and with his wife and Max bill, collaborated in establishing the Ulm school of design. Only in a brief time did it become a successful institute of the arts, and it remained as one of Germanys leading educational centres until its closure in 1968.

​Otl Aicher's most notable works include the pictograms that he designed for the 1972 summer Olympics. the organisers of the 1972 Olympics approached Aicher and gave him the lead designers position, along with the instruction that the design must compliment the newly built stadium in Munich. the pictograms were made with the intention of presenting a visual representation of the stadium, and this careful creation of the pictograms helped both athletes and visitors to find their way around the olympic village and stadium. Later in his career he developed the Rotis font family in the 1888 after consulting the kitchen company Bulthaup. Aicher also wrote books on several subjects, including art and design.