Thursday 16 January 2014

Relevant Graphics Designers



Graphics Designers:


5 names every graphics designer should know:




Paula Scher:

Paula is an american graphics designer and was born in Washington DC and she is also an art educator in design. She was the first female principal at Pentagram which she joined in 1991.

  

Neville Brody:
Neville is an English designer and art director and he became famous from his direction of cult UK magazine "The Face" between 1981 and 1986. In earlier times he is known for redesigning the front cover of the "The Times" in 2006 which created a new font and then the BBC website in 2011.

 

David Carson:
David is the director of the music and lifestyle magazine Ray Gun he became the most influential graphics designer of the 1990's. He was a big fan of grunge typography. The first edition of his End of Print monograph first published in 2000 sold 35,000 copies.



Milton Glaser:
Milton was awarded the national medal of arts by president Obama in 2009. He is widely know for his I Love New York logo which he created in 1977. He has also worked for Bob Dylan, DC Comics and The Brooklyn Brewery as he created all their logos.




Stefan Sagmeister:
Born in Austria, New York-based graphics designer and typographer has had somewhat of a resurgence in the last year mainly because he joined partners with young graphics designer Jessica Walsh. Over the last year he has designed logos for Rolling Stones, HBO and Time Warner.

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