Thoughts on Margo Chase...

Thoughts on Margo Chase...

It is inspiring that she owns her own design firm in Los Angeles, she must be very successful. There are great applications of furniture and exhibits in her studio, and the space is very functional as well. It is interesting that they take applications of the "LA Scene" and incorporate them as paintings in their studio.

I do love the space of Margo's studio and it almost mimics a downtown loft and she has her own personal office and impressive library collection which include antique & typography books which have classic typefaces and fonts that do not exist on the internet today.

I learned that books can be inspiring and I am now considering having a library of physical books instead of having electronic resources only to keep myself inspired.

Margo started in the music industry designing logos for unknown gospels and eventually began designing large products for artists such as Cher and Madonna. If you have the talent of Margo, you can work directly with artists of this caliber and that is inspiring.

It is interesting that she explains how slow everything was on a Mac II c/e when technology was only starting to be used for graphic design.

She is also interested in typefaces and lettering stemming from her mother's work as an amateur calligrapher. Having a close family member who is into this business is also a great source of inspiration which is probably at least partly the reason why Margo became a graphic designer.

She uses Gillott Crow Quill pens for very cool calligraphy for drawing long lines along letters and scans them into Illustrator for additional touch ups.

She explains that one of her favorite styles is Gothic and Gothic typefaces - this gives me an idea: to pick a style that I love and create works based on that style. This will be inspirational. It is also dangerous to only do one style since you can get pigeonholed into doing just this one style.