- Steven Heller
Steven Heller, (b. 1950), American art director, journalist, critic, author and editor who specializes on graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography and many subjects related to graphic design. Over 80 titles and a vast number of magazine articles attest to his productive and thoughtful output. He has written articles for "Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., … - Paul Rand
Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 - November 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929-1932), the Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933-1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. From 1956 to 1969, and beginning again in 1974, … - Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia and Edward E. Tufte), a professor emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy at Yale University has been described by "The New York Times" as "the Leonardo da Vinci of Data". He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. - David Carson
David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine "Ray Gun". Carson is almost universally acknowledged as the greatest and certainly the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge" era. - Peter Saville
Peter Saville (born 1955 in Manchester) is an English graphic designer based in London. Saville attended St Ambrose College. He studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic (later Manchester Metropolitan University) from 1975 to 1978. - Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. Prior to joining the international design consultancy Pentagram as a partner in 1990, he was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Montreal. - Bruce Mau
Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries. Bruce Mau studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, but left prior to graduation in order to join the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980. He stayed there for two years, before crossing the ocean for a brief sojourn at Pentagram in the UK. Returning to Toronto a year later, … - Paula Scher
Paula Scher (born 1948 in Washington D.C.) is an American graphic designer and artist. Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C., earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Recordings, before moving into art direction for magazines. She worked at Time Inc. before forming her own design firm, Koppel & Scher. - Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd (born 1964) is an American author, editor and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers. Born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in a Philadelphia suburb, strongly influenced by American popular culture. While a design student at Penn State, an art instructor once gave the assignment to design a book cover for "Museums and Women" by John Updike, who is also a Shillington native. The teacher panned Kidds work in front of the class, … - Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann (born May 30 1947) is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen. Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house. Between 1972 and 1979, he worked as a freelance graphic designer in London before returning to Berlin and founding MetaDesign with two partners. In 1989 he and his wife, Joan Spiekermann, … - Neville Brody
Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Communication and studied at Hammersmith College of Art under Ruskin Spear (alumni include Glenn Tutsell, Michael Peters and Howard Milton) and is known for his work on "The Face" magazine (1981–1986) and "Arena" magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Nine Inch Nails. - Alan Fletcher
Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by "The Daily Telegraph" as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific". - Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake (born c. April 1938) is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs and exhibitions. - Jan Tschichold
Jan Tschichold (April 2 1902 Leipzig, Germany - August 11 1974 Locarno, Switzerland) was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer. - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of "Colors" magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, after he and his family fled Hungary to escape the Soviet invasion. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. - Wim Crouwel
Wim Crouwel is a dutch graphic designer and typographer, born in The Netherlands in 1928. He is one of the leading dutch graphic designers since the 60's. He was the curator of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and until now he holds lectures and exhibits his own work. Since over 30 years he handles the artdirection for the private galleries Van Abbe and SMA and is an active member of the graphic design scene. - Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli (born 1931) is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage to showroom design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife Lella. He has said, "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," and this is reflected in his broad range of work. - El Lissitzky
"' (Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий, November 23, 1890 - December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий"'), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. He was one of the most important figures of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his friend and mentor, Kazimir Malevich, … - Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect. Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising. - Dock
Hayden Scott-Baron is an English professional illustrator and graphic designer. In 2001 he joined up with other comic creators Laura Watton, Sam Brown/Subi and Foxy in founding one of the largest UK Manga Studios, Sweatdrop Studios. Dock has written several 'how-to' books on the topic of drawing manga, including 'Digital Manga Techniques' and 'Manga Clip Art'. Dock currently lives in Cambridge, UK, and regularly attends UK animé conventions, representing Sweatdrop Studios. - Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hannover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, collage, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. - Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the "Acme Novelty Library", and a graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth." Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in Oak Park, Illinois as of 2006. Ware's art is eclectic in its influences, and largely reflects his love of early-20th century American aesthetics in both cartooning and graphic design, … - Peter Biľak
Peter Biľak Slovakian graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is the head of the type foundry Typotheque. In 2003 designed a series of the standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal mail (TNT Post). Biľak teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type&Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), and lectures widely on graphic design and typography. He also contributes regularly to international publications and books, … - Tony Diterlizzi
Tony DiTerlizzi is the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor Book The Spider and the Fly and the coauthor and illustrator of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles. He grew up in an artistic household in South Florida and quickly gravitated toward fantasy and whimsical stories. In addition to writing and illustrating children's books, he has also worked in gaming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, Angela, and their pug, Goblin. - Philip B. Meggs
- April Greiman
April Greiman (born 1948) is a contemporary designer. She is recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool starting in 1984 and, to a lesser extent, for introducing the New Wave aesthetic to the United States. Presently, she heads Los Angeles-based design consultancy Made in Space. Her work evolved from her graduate education at Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland. - Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf (born November 8, 1918) is a prolific German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Zapf's work has suffered the two-edged sword of veneration, as his designs, which include Palatino and Optima, have been perhaps the most widely admired - and plagiarized - of any of the twentieth century. The best known example of this being Monotype's Book Antiqua, … - Art Chantry
Arthur S.W. Chantry II (born April 9, 1954 in Seattle) is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he did for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Nirvana, Hole and The Sonics. He is also notable for his work in logo design. Chantry advocates a low-tech approach to design that is informed by the history of the field. His work has been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, … - Mike Mills
Mike Mills (born 1966 in Berkeley, CA.) is a film director/music video director and graphic designer. He graduated from Cooper Union in Lower Manhattan, New York City. He has created videos for such musical acts as Moby, Yoko Ono and Air. He has also worked as a graphic designer on promotional material and album covers for such acts as Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth, and Ol' Dirty Bastard. In addition he has created graphics for X-Girl, Marc Jacobs, … - Ed Fella
Ed Fella(born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. - Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast is an illustrator and graphic designer. He, along with Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Along with Glaser, Chwast created "The Push Pin Graphic", an award-winning bi-monthly publication from the Push Pin Studios which achieved a worldwide reputation. He has since done many posters, food packaging, magazine covers and publicity art. - Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 - March 14 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist, muralist, social activist, photographer and teacher. He is best known for his works of Social realism, his leftist political views, and his series of lectures published as "The Shape of Content". He was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, to Joshua Hessel and Gittel (Lieberman) Shahn. His father was exiled to Siberia for alleged revolutionary activities in 1902, at which point Shahn, … - Alfred Gockel
Alfred Alexander Gockel was born in Ludinghausen, Germany in 1952. From his earliest days on, he was fascinated by the magic of colors on paper. This talent and enthusiasm resulted in the release of the first art work by a German publisher at the age of 8. After he graduated from high school, he commenced his studies at the Polytechnic Academy in Munster in 1973. His main emphasis was typography, graphic design and advertising. - Emil Ruder
Emil Ruder, Swiss typographer and graphic designer, who with Armin Hofmann helped to found the Basel School (Schule für Gestaltung Basel) and a graphic style known as the Swiss Style. Ruder was a contributing writer and editor for "Typografische Monatsblätter." Ruder published a basic grammar of typography titled "Emil Ruder: Typopgraphy." The text was published first in German, then in English. The book helped spread and propagate the Swiss Style, … - Rian Hughes
Rian Hughes is a British graphic designer, illustrator and comics artist, noted for his work on "2000AD", where he illustrated "Robo-Hunter", "Tales from Beyond Science", "Really and Truly" and "Dan Dare", among others. His work was highly distinctive, wearing its design influences on its sleeve, daring to be two-dimensional and bold in its use of large expanses of flat, bold colours. This stood out particularly during the early 1990s, … - Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann, was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he produced concert posters for the Tonhalle in Zurich. In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. - Rob Carter
Rob Carter is professor of typography and graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has received numerous awards for his work from organizations such as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York Type Directors Club, Society of Typographic Arts, Creativity, and Print regional annual. He is the author of "American Typography Today", the five-volume "Working with Type" series, "Digital Colour and Type", … - Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman is a freelance journalist who edits Wi-Fi Networking News, a widely cited early news blog that covers wireless data networking. Fleishman founded one of the earliest Web development firms, Point of Presence Company, worked at Amazon.com from 1996 to 1997, and runs isbn.nu, a book price comparison service. Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), … - Stefan G. Bucher
Stefan G. Bucher (born 1973) is a writer, graphic designer and illustrator. Starting his career in the United States as an art director at Portland, Oregon advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy, he went on to design numerous CD packages including "Brand New Day: The Remixes" for Sting, the soundtrack for the motion picture The Matrix with Keanu Reeves. - Alexey Brodovitch
Alexey Brodovitch (also Brodovich) was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of "Harper's Bazaar" from 1938 to 1958. Brodovitch was born in 1898. He fled Russia in 1920 and settled in Paris. He came to the United States in 1930 and began his career at Harper's Bazaar in 1934. After a remarkable career but an unhappy personal life, Brodovitch died in 1971 in a small village in southern France.
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