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| x Michelle Hlubinka |
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Michelle Hlubinka is an artist, graphic designer, educator and technologist living in Berkeley, California.
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| x Paul Rand |
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Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT. He was one of the...
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| x Ken Skistimas |
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| x Gordon Mackenzie |
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He is a person who lives amongst the many.
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| x William Morris |
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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and...
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| x Dick Bruna |
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Dick Bruna (b. August 23, 1927, Utrecht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.
Bruna is best known for his children's books which he authored and illustrated, now numbering over 200. His best known creation is...
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| x Herbert Bayer |
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Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) 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...
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| x Eric Gill |
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Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Today he is a controversial figure, with his well-known...
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| x Jan Tschichold |
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Jan Tschichold (2 April 1902 Leipzig, Germany – 11 August 1974 Locarno, Switzerland) was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer.
Tschichold was the son of a provincial signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy. This artisan background...
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| x Quentin Crisp |
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Quentin Crisp (25 December 1908(1908-12-25) – 21 November 1999), born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer and raconteur. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of...
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| x Peter Max |
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Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein; October 19, 1937) is a German-born American artist best known for his iconic art style in the 1960s. At first, his “Cosmic 60s” art, as it came to be known, appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of...
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| x Dave McKean |
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David McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician.
His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital...
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| x Jamie Reid |
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Jamie Reid (born 1947) is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note, came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in...
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| x Deutscher Werkbund |
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The Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) was a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists. The Werkbund was to become an important event in the development of modern architecture and industrial design,...
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| x Harry Beck |
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Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974), known as Harry Beck, was an engineering draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an...
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| x Frederic Goudy |
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Frederic W. Goudy (1865–1947) was a prolific American type designer whose fonts include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerley, and Goudy Old Style. He also designed, in 1938, University of California Oldstyle, for the sole proprietary use of the University...
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| x Susan Kare |
Susan Kare (born 1954) is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT (the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in...
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| x Shepard Fairey |
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Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he...
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| x Tibor Kalman |
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Tibor Kalman (July 6, 1949–May 2, 1999) 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...
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| x Mori Chack |
Mori Chack (森チャック Mori Chakku, born on March 23, 1973) is the artist name of a Japanese graphic designer, who was born in Sakai, Osaka, Japan. He is famous for his Chax product line, and especially the character Gloomy Bear, a 2m tall, violent, pink...
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| x William Caslon |
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William Caslon, also known as William Caslon I (1692–1766-01-23) was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a...
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| x Quentin Fiore |
Quentin Fiore (born 1920) is a graphic designer, who has worked mostly in books.
Having taken art lessons from renowned artists George Grosz and Hans Hofmann, Fiore later studied at the "New Bauhaus" in Chicago.
Quentin Fiore is noted especially by...
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| x Franko Luin |
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Franko Luin (born April 6, 1941 in Trieste, Italy, died September 15, 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden) was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. A graphic designer...
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| x Edward Johnston |
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Edward Johnston, CBE (11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944) was a British craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the a father of modern calligraphy, in the form of the broad edged pen as a writing tool, a particular form of calligraphy. He...
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| x Saul Bass |
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Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.
During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood...
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| x Erik Spiekermann |
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Erik Donald Spiekermann (born May 30, 1947 in Stadthagen, Germany) 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...
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| x Milton Glaser |
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Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine...
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| x Peter Behrens |
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Peter Behrens (April 14, 1868 – February 27, 1940) was a German architect and designer.
He studied painting in his native Hamburg, as well as in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe, from 1886 to 1889. In 1890, he married Lilly Kramer and moved to Munich. At...
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| x Burton Kramer |
Burton Kramer, O.Ont (born 1932) is a prominent graphic designer and artist who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Born in 1932, Kramer began working in the late 1950s and his work was prominent at Expo 67, where he designed the wayfinding...
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| x David Carson |
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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 was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the...
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| x Paul Frank |
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Paul Frank (born August 29, 1967) is an American cartoonist, artist and fashion designer. Frank's creations adorn clothing, accessories, and many other products. Julius the Monkey is one of Frank's best-known characters, and has appeared in a wide...
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| x Art Paul |
Art (Arthur) Paul (b. January 18, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American graphics designer and the designer of the Playboy rabbit-head logo.
Art Paul was born in the Southwest Side of Chicago, but his family later moved to Rogers Park. There,...
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| x Carolyn Davidson |
Carolyn Davidson is the creator of the Nike swoosh.
Davidson designed the swoosh in 1971 while a graphic design student at Portland State University. Phil Knight, who was teaching an accounting class at the university, noticed Davidson working on an...
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| x Muelle |
Muelle was a trademark signature and design by Juan Carlos Argüello, Spanish graffiti pioneer (circa 1966–1995).
Around 1980, during the Madrilene cultural Movida, Argüello started reproducing the logo he had designed in walls and public spaces of...
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| x Pablo Ferro |
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Pablo Ferro (born January 15, 1935) is a graphic designer and film titles designer.
Born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba, he was raised on a remote farm until emigrating to New York with his family as a teen.
Ferro taught himself animation from a...
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| x Hugh Syme |
Hugh Syme is a Canadian Juno Award-winning graphic artist who is best known for his artwork and cover concepts for rock and metal bands. He is also a musician and has appeared in some Rush songs as a keyboard player. Syme is notably responsible for...
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| x Erik Bruun |
Erik Bruun (born 1926 in Viipuri) is a Finnish graphic designer.
Bruun spent his childhood in village of Säiniö on the Carelian isthmus. In the war years his family was forced to move to Helsinki, where he later enrolled in the Central School of...
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| x Daniel Au |
Daniel Au is an American graphic designer who creates art, photography, and music. He studied at UCLA, and is in a band, called Temp. He is a singer-songwriter, and collaborated with Lucas Kuzma who is a laptop DJ and designer as well. Daniel lived...
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| x 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...
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| x Chip Kidd |
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Chip Kidd (born September 12, 1964) is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers.
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in the Reading suburb of Shillington, strongly influenced by American...
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| x Seymour Chwast |
Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
He was born in Bronx, New York, August 18, 1931 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel,...
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| x Joost Swarte |
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Joost Swarte (born 24 December, 1947, Heemstede) is a Dutch comic artist and graphic designer. He is best known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing, and in fact coined the term.
Joost Swarte studied industrial design in Eindhoven and...
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| x Eric Aldwinckle |
Eric Aldwinckle (22 January 1909 – 13 January 1980) was a Canadian war artist, designer and illustrator.
Born in Oxford, England but sent to Canada in 1922, he was apprenticed to printers in Toronto in the 1920’s and learned the graphic design trade...
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| x Raymond Ameijide |
Raymond Ameijide (September 14, 1924, Newark, New Jersey – January 11, 2000, Cortlandt Manor, New York) was an American illustrator and graphic designer. He served with the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II before becoming a graphic designer in...
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| x Richard Amsel |
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Richard Amsel (1947–1985) was an American illustrator and graphic designer.
Richard Amsel was born in Philadelphia in December, 1947. While a student at the Philadelphia College of Art, his proposed poster art for the Barbra Streisand musical Hello,...
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| x Jules Siegel |
Jules Siegel (born October 21, 1935, New York City) is a writer and graphic designer whose work has appeared over the years in Playboy, Best American Short Stories, Library of America's Writing Los Angeles, and many other publications. He...
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| x Robert Hales |
Robert Hales is a graphic designer and music video director from the United Kingdom. Hales has directed music videos by artists such as Jet, The Veronicas, Fuel, Stereophonics, The Donnas, Justin Timberlake, Nine Inch Nails, Gnarls Barkley and...
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| x Shigeo Fukuda |
Shigeo Fukuda (Japanese: 福田 繁雄, February 4, 1932 – January 11, 2009) was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. He was born in Tokyo. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a...
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| x 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...
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| x Frank Jonen |
Frank Jonen is a German born visual effects artist with roots in print design and screen design.
Working with the web since 1994 and adopting CSS in 2002 he went unaffected by the dotcom crisis which mainly hit the San Francisco Bay Area and New...
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| x Wim Crouwel |
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Willem Hendrik (Wim) Crouwel (Groningen, 1928) is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer. Between 1947 and 1949 he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands. In addition to that, he studied typography at what is now the...
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| x Joe Darone |
Joe Darone, (born Joseph Edward McDonald on October 30, 1971), is an American musician and visual artist. He began his recording career at the age of 15 as drummer/art director for the New Jersey pop-punk band, The Fiendz. The Fiendz went on to...
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| x Jan Lenica |
Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland - 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.
A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early...
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| x Pierre-Yves Pelletier |
Pierre-Yves Pelletier is a graphic designer, who has designed 110 stamps for Canada Post. Pierre-Yves Pelletier is ½ French Canadian. He lives in Belœil, Quebec.
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| x Alex Rutterford |
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Alex Rutterford is a British director and graphic designer working mostly on music videos. He studied graphic design at the Croydon School of Art and graduated in 1991. He started his professional career by designing graphics on sets for films such...
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| x Tom Freeman |
Tom Freeman is a graphic artist who designs tee-shirts and other projects for a company located in Walhalla, South Carolina. He has produced a series of ever-increasingly sophisticated shirt designs for the annual Spittoono music festival, since its...
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| x Rian Hughes |
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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,...
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| x Charles Bigelow |
Charles A. Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris...
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| x Vincent Clark |
Vincent Jerrelle Clark (born December 8, 1975) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stints in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Clark became interested in wrestling as a child after watching Lanny Poffo and the The Killer...
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