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Leopoldo Méndez

Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico’s most important graphics artists and one of country’s the most important artists from the 20th century.


Alfredo Rostgaard

Alfredo Rostgaard (1943 – December 27, 2004) was a Cuban graphic designer and artist.

Alvin Tresselt

Alvin Tresselt (born September 30, 1916, Passaic, New Jersey - July 24, 2000) was a pioneering children's book author and graphic designer.

Asianet

The unique blue and pink logo was designed by acclaimed Indian graphic designer Sujata Keshavan and is one of the most recognizable brand identities in the television broadcasting field in south India.

Bill Mather

He worked as a graphic designer before joining BBC Bristol design department in 1968 where he "discovered" animation and with producer Colin Thomas developed the series "Animated Conversations" whereby "natural-unscripted" dialogue was recorded (sometimes secretly) before adding the animated visuals.

Brett Wickens

Brett worked with British designer Peter Saville as a partner in his London studio during the 1980s and 90s, where they developed renowned campaigns for clients as diverse as Yohji Yamamoto, Factory Records, Peter Gabriel and the French Ministry of Culture.

Christoph Niemann

Christoph Niemann (born 1970 in Waiblingen, West Germany) is an illustrator, graphic designer, and (co-)author of several books including some children's books.

DK Holland

DK (Deborah Katherine) Holland (born March 26, 1947, Metuchen, New Jersey) is an American graphic designer, writer and educator who, besides working on independent projects, spends much of her career writing, teaching about graphic design, Design thinking and ethics.

Do Good Design

Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change The World is a book by Canadian designer David B. Berman, with a foreword by Erik Spiekermann, published by Peachpit Press in January 2009.

Germano Facetti

Germano Facetti (5 May 1926 – 8 April 2006) was an Italian graphic designer who headed design at Penguin Books from 1962 to 1971.

Herbert Leupin

Herbert Leupin (20 December 1916 in Beinwil am See – 21 September 1999 in Basel) was a Swiss graphic designer known primarily for his poster art.

Joe Funk

Joe Funk served the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 in Korea and Okinawa as a heavy anti aircraft artillery mechanic and instructor, warehouseman, and artist/publicist/graphic designer for special events at Headquarters Company, Asiatic Command.

Katherine McCoy

The commercial vernacular collages of Edward Fella, the Basel experiments of Wolfgang Weingart and a Yale project by Dan Friedman were visual design influences.

Rado Krošelj

Rado Krošelj was a Slovene illustrator and graphic designer who won the Levstik Award in 1952 for his illustrations of the book of poems for children Barčica (The Little Boat) selected and translated by Alojz Gradnik.

Surf art

Whether it be cave drawings by old native Hawaiians, to painters through the generations, to surrealists, to graphic designers, to sculptures and even installation artists,with many keen artists through time following suit, quite often surfers themselves.

Typographica

Contents: Paul van Ostaijen; Paul van Ostaijen: Lyric poetry–instructions for use; Objects count (by Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes); Spanish street lettering.

Walter Herdeg

The title was "Graphis Diagrams" and it carried images that would later be used in contemporary product designs such as the Unknown Pleasures compact disc album cover designed by Peter Saville (graphic designer)As testament to Herdeg's curator-ship this and more such visual material featured in his magazine rose to exemplary statuses as well as value.


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Alston Purvis

Philip Alston Willcox Purvis (born 1943), son of Melvin Purvis, is an American graphic designer, artist, professor and author.

Anke Eißmann

Anke Katrin Eißmann (born 1977 in Dillenburg) is a German illustrator and graphic designer known for her illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

Art Paul

Paul was working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in a small office under the Chicago 'L' tracks when in 1953 he was contacted by Hugh Hefner.

Bell Gothic

The typeface was used as a display and caption face by Metropolis magazine, by Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau in designing the initial ZONE book series, Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, and has been widely used by Semiotext(e) Books, the MIT Press, and Dia Art Foundation.

Big Boy Restaurants

The Big Boy character was revised in 1956 by an artist working for Ken Bird, a Big Boy paper products supplier and Manfred Bernhard, son of legendary graphic designer Lucian Bernhard.

Björn Landström

Björn Olof August Landström (21 April 1917, in Kuopio, Finland – 7 January 2002, in Helsinki) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist, writer, graphic designer, illustrator and researcher.

Brit Insurance Design Awards

In 2006, a humanitarian architect, Cameron Sinclair, whose work aided many disaster-ravaged communities across the world, was competing against a graphic designer, Jamie Hewlett, for his work on the popular Gorillaz virtual band.

Bruce Milne

He has been associated with graphic designer and musician Philip Brophy, author and journalist Clinton Walker and Australian rock groups The Scientists, Spiderbait, Magic Dirt, New Zealand's The Datsuns and many others.

Cahan

Bill Cahan, architect, graphic designer, and founder of design firm Cahan and Associates

Catrin G Grosse

Catrin G Grosse (* 1964 in Finsterwalde), also known as Catrin Große, is a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor.

Churchward

Joseph Churchward (1933 -), Samoan New Zealander graphic designer and typesetter

David Mbiyu

After college in Nairobi and Eldoret, he moved to London for further studies and eventually he begun freelancing as a graphic designer, photojournalist and documentary producer on digital film.

Ebony, Kent

Dave McKean - illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician

Emma de Caunes

De Caunes was born in Paris, the daughter of the actor and director Antoine de Caunes and the director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer.

Flux Television

The show had numerous creative collaborators including Jonathan Wells (creative director), designer Bill McMullen (who created the logo), twenty2product (who designed the show's motion graphics sequences), graphic designer David Weissberg, producers Aden Ikram, Randall Hoy and Lisa Braz.

Frank Etc.

It was founded in Stockholm in 1994 by the industrial designer Nikolaus Frank and the graphic designer Cecilia Frank.

George Vasilakos

In the past, George has been the art direct and graphic designer for Last Unicorn Games, Wizards of the Coast and Decipher, working on the Star Trek and Lord of the Rings RPGs.

Gerrit Noordzij Prize

Erik Spiekermann (type designer, graphic designer and co-director of FSI FontShop International)

Goslin

Charles Goslin (1932-2007), American graphic designer and professor

Guerilla Records

The label's distinctive blue camouflage generic sleeve was designed by graphic designer Steve Cook, known for his design and art direction of the British comic 2000 AD.

Hadzihalilovic

Bojan Hadzihalilovic (born 1964), Bosnia and Herzegovina graphic designer

Herman Hendrik Baanders

H.H. Baanders' daughter Tine Baanders (1890–1971) was a graphic designer and illustrator who was a frequent contributor to the art magazine Wendingen.

Hiroshi Iuchi

He resurfaced in 2007 as a freelance graphic designer and has since worked with Treasure on the Xbox Live Arcade port of Ikaruga and Bleach: Versus Crusade for the Wii.

Israeli lira

The coins were conceived, in part, by Israeli graphic designer Otte Wallish.

Ken Mora

After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

Lee Binding

Lee Binding (born 1975) is a graphic designer, most notably working on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Logan Whitehurst

Logan was also an accomplished graphic designer, creating numerous album covers for bands such as his sister's Tsunami Bomb, in addition to Dynamite Boy, Little Tin Frog, The Velvet Teen, 20 Minute Loop, Go Time, Shut Up Donny, Santiago, and labels such as Fearless Records, Restitution Records, Silent Records and Entertainment, and Double Helix Records.

McMullen Museum of Art

Most recently, "Pollock Matters" (2007) received much media attention, comprising over 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures, exploring the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matter.

Meulman

Niels Shoe Meulman (b. 1967), Dutch visual artist, graffiti writer, graphic designer and art director

Miguel Coimbra

Coimbra moved to Lyon in 2005 and worked as a graphic designer for the resident video game developer Eden Games, on among other things, the titles Test Drive Unlimited and Alone in the Dark.

Mumtaz Hussain

In 1988, he moved to New York to pursue graphic design at the School of Visual Art where his teachers included Milton Glaser, a graphic designer and illustrator.

Pablo O'Higgins

Among O'Higgins' students was the American graphic designer Bob Cato.

Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962), Austrian-American graphic designer and typographer

Schwabmünchen

Peter Seitz (1931- ) Graphic Designer, Author, Professor, Business Owner

Scott Ritcher

Scott Ritcher is a magazine publisher and graphic designer from Louisville, Kentucky, born September 27, 1969.

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette

In 2008, the painting was used by graphic designer Chip Kidd on the first edition cover for When You Are Engulfed in Flames, a collection of essays written by David Sedaris.

Steve Cook

Steven Cook, British artist, photographer, and graphic designer

Svjetlan Junaković

He works as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and graphic designer and is also a lecturer in illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and the International School in Sarmede in Italy.

Tarkus

The cover artwork was commissioned from the painter and graphic designer William Neal.

The Style Council

All of The Style Council's UK releases (including singles, 12" maxis, albums, compact discs and re-issues thereof) featured the work of graphic designer Simon Halfon, who often collaborated with Weller to hone his ideas into a graphic form.

Tufte

Edward Tufte (born 1942), statistician, political scientist, graphic designer, and author

Turčianske Teplice

One of the famous personalities born in Turčianske Teplice is Mikuláš Galanda, a modern painter, graphic designer and illustrator.

Van der Lans

Rudy VanderLans (born 1955), Dutch graphic designer and typographer

Walter Herdeg

Walter Herdeg (born January 3, 1908 in Zurich died 1995) was a Swiss graphic designer, noted for his travel posters and work with Graphis Magazine, who was awarded an AIGA medal in 1986.