- 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., … - Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel , author of the critically acclaimed Fun Home (called "one of the very best graphic novels ever" in Booklist ) and of the syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF), has become a cultural institution for lesbians and discerning non-lesbians all over the planet. At the podium, Bechdel redefines race and gender roles while taking aim at some of the most controversial topics of the day. - Psalm
Psalm is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne Australia. His notability comes from the prolific nature of his art, the skill of his work and his unique and individual style. Psalm used to be an architectural drafter and didn't like it so went back to school. He is now a freelance graphic artist. Psalm has been involved in graffiti since about 1989. Psalm was one of the first street artists painting in Melbourne, starting in 1999. - Shaky Kane
Michael.S.Kane is a writer and psychedelic artist who best known for his work as a comic and graphic artist under the pseudonym Shaky Kane, as well as Shaky 2000. As Michael Waspman he is writing a novel called "Charlotte". After working for independent comics and magazines like "Deadline" in the 1980s, Kane moved to the mainstream with work on "2000 AD" and its sister title, … - Ghobad Shiva
Ghobad Shiva is an Iranian designer, born in 1940 in Hamadan city in Iran. he graduated in 1966 from the faculty of Fine Arts (painting section) of the University of Tehran. He then spent several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art before earning a master's degree from Pratt University, New York, in 1980. Then after creating original works over several decades, he achieved a graphic art with an Iranian flavor, … - Luke Fildes
Sir Samuel Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927) was an English painter and illustrator born at Liverpool and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools. At the age of seventeen Luke Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank Holl. All three men became influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the social realist movement in Britain. - Sandra Rauch
Sandra Rauch is a German artist. Sandra Rauch began to study communication design in 1991 in ("Berlin Kommunikationsdesign") and she changed in 1995 to the HfBK Dresden ("Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden") to study painting and graphic techniques. From 1993 to 1998, she travelled to Italy and France. In 1998, she became a master-class pupil with Prof. Kerbach and finished in 2000. Since 2000 she works as an assistant of Prof. - Gerd Zacher
Gerd Zacher (b. Meppen on the Ems River, Germany, July 6, 1929) is a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specializes in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He has interpreted the scores of numerous contemporary composers, including John Cage, Juan Allende-Blin, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Hans Otte, and Isang Yun. - Fred Leist
Frederick William Leist (21 August 1878 - 20 March 1945) was an Australian artist and a member of several well known art societies including the Royal Art Society and the NSW Society of Artists. Leist studied at the Sydney Art School studying under Julian Ashton and beginning work in 1908 as a black-and-white artist for "The Bulletin" and "Sydney Mail" newspapers, eventually moving onto the "Graphic" magazine in London. - Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.) - Ihap Hulusi Görey
İhap Hulusi Görey, born on November 28, 1898 in Cairo, was the first Turkish graphic artist best known for his illustrations on posters and labels of several Turkish brands in the Republican era. - 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. - 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, … - Rudy Vanderlans
Rudy VanderLans, founder of Emigre , said in an interview with Speak Up, “Perusing the visuals is a kind of ‘reading’ also. It requires a certain visual literacy to appreciate looking at reproductions of graphic design.” As professionals endowed with creating visuals, our aversion to assimilating, understanding and willingness to learn from visuals seems surprising at best, hypocritical at worst. - 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, … - Percy Spence
Percy Frederick Seaton Spence (1868 - 1933) was an Australian artist. He was born in Sydney. He became a contributor to The Bulletin and also exhibited at the Royal Art Society. He went to Europe in 1895 and illustrations by him appeared in "Black and White", the "Graphic", and other well-known publications of the time. He had two pictures in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1899 and his work was also accepted in the three following years. - 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. - 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, … - 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, … - Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman (born 1936) is an American architect and graphic designer. He is considered the pioneer in the practice of making information understandable. He has written and designed over 80 books and created the TED conferences. In 1976 he coined the phrase information architect out of his reaction to a society that daily creates massive amounts of information, but with little care or order. - Michael Okuda
Michael Okuda is a graphic designer who is best known for his work on "Star Trek". In the mid-1980s he designed the look of animated computer displays for the "Enterprise"-A bridge in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home". This led to a staff position on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987 as a scenic artist, adding detail to set designs and props. - Franco Maria Ricci
Franco Maria Ricci is the publisher of FMR, an art magazine published six times yearly in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish, based in Milan, Italy. The first issue was published in 1982. FMR stands for the publisher's initials that once pronounced in French, it appears to read "ephémère". Franco Maria Ricci wants FMR to be seen as an object. Praised by critics as 'the most beautiful magazine in the world', it acts as a model for perfection, … - Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister Graphic designer, founder, Sagmeister Inc. - Robyn Flach
Web designer/developer working in HTML, CSS, PHP, MySql, Flash, javascript, and utilizing the Adobe CS4 suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, on both Mac and Windows platforms. Experience in graphic, interior, and costume design. Extensive experience in general and operations management in the home and office furnishings industry. - Ty Pennington
Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington (born October 19, 1965 in Marietta, Georgia) is a carpenter, TV personality, and a former fashion model. He is most famous for being the host of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" which currently airs on ABC. Previously, Pennington was a carpenter on the TLC reality show "Trading Spaces". Pennington was considered an unruly child and had difficulty performing throughout school. - 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. - Gregoire Seither
Gregoire Seither (real name Gregor Remi Seither, aka Gregwah, The Wah), born Landau-in-der-Pfalz (Germany) in 1964, is a Franco-German journalist, graphic designer, interpreter and cyber-activist, founding member of the "1984 Network Liberty Alliance", a loose international cyber network of free speech and privacy activists. He is the founder and administrator of the now defunct French hacktivist BBS "Pom-Pom". - Jeff Tremaine
Jeff Tremaine (born December 8, 1966) is an American film and television producer/director, and, along with Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze, one of the creators of MTV's "Jackass". He directed "Jackass: The Movie", "Jackass Number Two", and "Jackass" spinoff "Wildboyz". Tremaine is the former editor of Big Brother Magazine and a former art director of the influential BMX magazine GO as well as a former professional BMX rider. - 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". - Adam Savage
Adam John Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American television co-host on the program "MythBusters" on the Discovery Channel. - Paniq
paniq (real name Leonard Ritter; born July 31, 1980 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany), is a German composer, coder, graphic artist and writer. He is a member of the German demo group Farbrausch. As a demoscene musician, paniq has so far composed more than 150 pieces of electronic music. The music varies from a cappella over a variety of modern electronic music styles, to wide-ranging crossovers spanning different musical genres. - 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, … - Kaysar Ridha
Kaysar Ridha (born August 10, 1980) was a contestant on Big Brother 6 and Big Brother 7, a reality TV series in the United States shown on the channel CBS. He was extremely popular as a contestant on Big Brother 6, but came in 10th place. Kaysar was born in Baghdad, Iraq and is a Shia Muslim. His family immigrated to the USA when he was an infant. Kaysar is currently residing in Irvine, California, where he is a graphic designer. - Andi Watson
Andrew "Andi" Watson (1969 -) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels "Breakfast After Noon", "Slow News Day" and his current series "Love Fights". Andi Watson was born and raised in Yorkshire to working class parents. He studied foundation art at Dewsbury college followed by a graphic design / illustration course at Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moores University). He currently lives in Stoke-on-Trent. - 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), … - Frank Jonen
Frank Jonen (born October 1, 1979 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German web designer and graphic designer / typographer. He grew up in Idstein, Germany where he runs a small design studio for mostly film related type services and interface design. His first break came in 2002 when he was contracted by the Linotype Library GmbH in Bad Homburg, Germany to create a new version of their highly successful typeface Zapfino designed by Hermann Zapf, … - 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, … - Nina Genke-Meller
Nina Genke or Nina Genke-Meller, or Nina Henke-Meller, (1893 - 1954) was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist, (Suprematist), designer, graphic artist and scenographer. - Kunihiko Ikuhara
Kunihiko Ikuhara (born December 21 1964) is a Japanese creative artist who has collaborated on several famous anime and manga series. He is best known for his role in creating and directing "Revolutionary Girl Utena". - Tom Vek
Tom Vek is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician from London, England.
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