April Greiman

April Greiman

female
gold medal, Walker Art Center, Pixelation, International style, Basel, Switzerland, Kunstgewerbeschule…Design Quarterly, graphic design, communicationdesign, design tool
April Greiman (born 1948) is a contemporary designer. She is recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design...
Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher

male, deceased (2006)
communicationdesign, From Nairobi, Business Person, artist, the daily telegraph, entrepreneur…graphic design, Design Museum
Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by "The Daily Telegraph" as "the most highly regarded...
Ed Fella

Ed Fella

male
professor, communicationdesign, emigre, American, graphic design, graphic designer…design, MFA in Design
Ed Fella(born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced...
Edward Johnston

Edward Johnston

male, deceased (1944)
graphic design, communicationdesign, johnston, london underground, Calligrapher, roundel…Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Edward Johnston (11 February 1872 - 26 November 1944), was a British scholar who is credited with the revival of calligraphy. He started teaching...

Josef Müller-Brockmann

male, deceased (1996)
communicationdesign, designer, graphic designer, zurich, graphic design, architecture…design, The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, A History of Visual Communication, Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann, was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and K...
Makoto Saito

Makoto Saito

male
museum of modern art, graphic design, designer, poster, eye, fukuoka…communicationdesign
Makoto Saito is a Japanese graphic designer and a self-described "poster designer". Saito was born in 1952 in Fukuoka, Japan. His early work as a...
Lester Beall

Lester Beall

male, deceased (1969)
University of Chicago, graphic design, Time Magazine, art institute of chicago, chicago tribune, Abbott Laboratories…communicationdesign
Lester Beall was a twentieth-century American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent of modernist graphic design in the United States....

László Moholy-Nagy

male, deceased (1946)
buried at Graceland Cemetery, communicationdesign, graphic design, Jewish person, World War I, Expressionism…industrial design
László Moholy-Nagy, July 20, 1895 - November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He wa...
Ladislav Sutnar

Ladislav Sutnar

male, deceased (1976)
graphic design, communicationdesign, information architecture, war, information design, World War II
Ladislav Sutnar was a Czech graphic designer who was a pioneer of what is now termed information design and information architecture. He was...
Corita Kent

Corita Kent

female, deceased (1986)
University of Southern California, communicationdesign, graphic design, printmaker, silkscreen, American
Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, (November 20, 1918-September 18, 1986) was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa....