- Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister Graphic designer, founder, Sagmeister Inc. - 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, … - Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is a graphic designer, best known for his "Bob Dylan" poster, the I Love New York logo, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - 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. - Saul Bass
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, 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. - John Maeda
John Maeda is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer programmer, university professor, and author. He is currently a professor at the MIT Media Lab. He was inspired early in his career by Paul Rand. - 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. - Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist/graphic designer/illustrator. He usually goes under his middle and last name, Shepard Fairey. He is most noted for being the artist who, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1989, created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which has evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, and can now be seen all over the world. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - William Morris
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there. - 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. - Vaughan Oliver
Vaughan Oliver (born 1957) is a graphic designer based in Wandsworth, South West London. Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23. Both studios maintained a close relationship with record label 4AD between 1982 and 1998. 23 Envelope consisted of Vaughan Oliver (graphic design and typography) and Nigel Grierson (photography). Together, they created the artwork for almost all 4AD releases until 1987. - 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". - 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, … - Herb Lubalin
Herbert F. (Herb) Lubalin "(b. 1918, d. 1981)" was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: "Eros", "Fact", and "Avant Garde" and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications. He designed a typeface, ITC Avant Garde, for the last of these; this distinctive font could be described as a post-modern interpretation of art deco, … - Hillman Curtis
D. Hillman Curtis is an American new media designer, author, and filmmaker. Curtis is the Principal and Chief Creative Officer of hillmancurtis.com, inc., a digital design firm in New York City. Previously, he was design director for Macromedia. He has published four books on new media design. Curtis was listed by the Internet Professional Publisher Association in its DesignerONE awards for 2001-2002 as one of the top ten web designers. - 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. - 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. - Otl Aicher
Otl Aicher, also known as Otto Aicher was one of the leading German graphic designers of the 20th century. In 1952 he married Inge Scholl, the sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, both of whom had been executed in 1943 for their membership in the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. In 1953, along with Inge Scholl and Max Bill, he founded the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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, … - Reza Abedini
Reza Abedini, (born 1967 in Tehran) is a world renowned Iranian designer and a professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University. Abedini is one of the most famous graphics designer in Iran because of his modern Persian Typography. He combined modern and traditional themes in his unique style. Reza Abedini has won dozen of national and international design awards. - 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. - Standard Design
Standard Design is the pen name for Tom Pappalardo, a Northampton, Massachusetts illustrator/graphic designer/comic artist best known for his comic books "Failure, Incompetence", "Famous Fighters" (with co-creator Matt Smith), and "Broken Lines". He is also a concert poster artist and the creator of the weekly comic strip "Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!". Standard Design does freelance illustration, design and motion graphics work. - Jan Tschichold
Jan Tschichold (April 2 1902 Leipzig, Germany - August 11 1974 Locarno, Switzerland) was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer. - 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. - Doyald Young
Since 1955, Doyald Young has specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets, and typefaces. He has designed logotypes and trademarks for the industrial design firm of Henry Dreyfuss Associates, California Institute of Technology, University of California at Los Angeles, exhibition catalogs for UCLA’s Clark Memorial Library, The Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mattel Toys, Max Factor, and Vidal Sassoon. - Dave McKean
David Tench McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, England) is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art and sculpture. - Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Kalman has lived in New York City since age 4. She authored a series of books about Max Stravinsky, the poet-dog. She is well known for her iconic New Yorker cover, with Rick Meyerowitz, New Yorkistan. Kalman was married to the designer Tibor Kalman until his death in 1999. Together, the two ran the design company M&Co, which remains successful today. Ms. Kalman now writes a monthly illustrated blog, … - 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. - 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. - Matt Smith
Matt Smith is a Cambridge, Massachusetts illustrator best known for his work in such children's magazines as "Cricket", "Highlights for Children", and "Muse". He is also known for creating album cover art and concert posters for The Minibosses and as a contributor to FORTY-3, The official Massachusetts College of Art. He received a Xeric grant for the illustrated poem Alec Dear, written by Tom Pappalardo of Standard Design. - Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, British sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker working mainly in engraving, and who was associated with the English Arts and Crafts movement. - Justine Ezarik
Justine Ezarik (aka iJustine) is a freelance graphic/web designer and video editor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She appears live 24/7 on the Internet through the use of a wireless webcam and microphone strapped to a baseball cap. She has her own iJustine lifecasting channel on Justin Kan's Justin.tv where she began transmitting her life via the Internet on May 29, 2007. For Asher Moses of "The Sydney Morning Herald" (May 31, …
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