Graphic Designers

A person who combines text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books. A selection of over 50 posts about graphic designers.

Paul Rand (1914 -1996) – Designer who led the way

On: March 24, 2023

Tagged: artist, business, colorful, creative, creativity, Design, Designer, draw, graphic, logo, man, packaging, professional, studio, Typography, work

Paul Rand, was a seminal figure in graphic design who made innovative visual identities for some of America’s major corporations and book and magazine publishers

We all have seen the designs of Paul Rand at some stage of our lives. He had a career spanning nearly seven decades. There is the seminal logo for IBM and the logo for ABC. There is the Westinghouse logo, the logo for NeXT computers. There are posters and packaging, book covers, record covers and a multitude of magazine covers.Read More →

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Walter Allner (1906–2006), an American painter and designer

On: March 13, 2023

Tagged: american, American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, Bauhaus

Walter Allner (1906–2006) was an American painter and designer known for his creativity, artistic skill, and imagination. He was trained at the Bauhaus under Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joost Schmidt and used bold colours, strong typography, and striking imagery in his designs.Read More →

Adrian Frutiger (1928 – 2015) Typographer – creator of widely used fonts.

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: Designer, graphic design, graphic designer, swiss design 🇨🇭, switzerland, Typography

Adrian Frutiger was a Swiss graphic designer and typographer. Frutiger created some of the most widely used fonts of the 20th century, and they can be seen daily in airports on street signs and in subway stations. He was the creator of many internationally known and loved fonts such as Avenir, Frutiger, Univers and Vectora.Read More →

Wolfgang Weingart – Swiss Typographer and Designer

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, Typography

He was dubbed “the father” of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography . LEARN MORERead More →

Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) – art that danced

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, Art, graffiti, illustrations, illustrator, keith haring, new york, painter, painting, Street art, street artist

Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-like painting, initially on the black paper used to cover discontinued billboard advertisements in the New York subway. After after a feverish 1980’s style career of surging popular success and grudging critical attention, Haring died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 31.Read More →

Ikko Tanaka (1930 -2002) 🇯🇵 Graphic Design blend of East and West

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: graphic design, graphic designer, Ikko Tanaka, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, japanese graphic design

Ikko Tanaka was a Leading Graphic Designer in Japan. He had an enormous impact on the post-war visual culture in Japan.Read More →

Gustav Klutsis (1895 -1944) photographic montage

On: February 25, 2023

Tagged: constructivism, graphic artist, graphic designer, painter, russian design, russian designer

Gustav Klutsis was a Latvian artist and graphic, poster and applied arts designer who was a devoted supporter of the Boshevik regime and a member of the communist party. He was the pioneer of photomontage in the Soviet Union and an acclaimed graphic designer and painter. Influences included Suprematism and Constructivism.

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Jan Tschichold (1902 – 1974) – Swiss Typographer

On: February 21, 2023

Tagged: Art, Design, elegant, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, graphic, graphic design, graphic designer, lettering, logo, poster, print, retro, style, swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, switzerland, symbol, text, type, typographic, Typography

German-born, Tschichold is one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century, He cleared away the old typography of pre-1925 and made room for a modern, structured and regulated new typography. His work is characterised by rigorous structure, asymmetrical placement of contrasting elements, and layouts based on horizontal and vertical underlying grids.Read More →

Paul Bacon (1923 – 2015) – created looks for books

On: February 21, 2023

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, book cover, cover, Design

Paul Bacon was not a household name, but anyone who has a passion for books will have seen his works. Bacon was an artist, who used minimal imagery and bold typography to sell famous novels such as, “Catch 22” by Joseph Heller, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest’s and Phillip Roth’s “Portnoy’s complaint?Read More →

Robert Bonfils (1886 – 1972) French Graphic Artist

On: January 5, 2023

Tagged: Art deco, Ceramic Design, Design, designed, Designer, designers, france, French, Furniture, Furniture designer, graphic artist, Paris

Born in Paris, Robert Bonfils was a French graphic artist, painter, and designer. He studied at the École Germain-Pilon in 1903 and at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1906.

He worked for Henri Hamm, a furniture designer. His work included paintings, bookbindings, ceramics for Sèvres, Bianchini-Frerier silk, wallpaper and interior design layouts. He designed the tea room at the Au Printemps department store in Paris. With depictions of the seasons, he decorated the wall.Read More →

Dan Friedman (1945 – 1995) American Graphic Designer

On: October 2, 2022

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, graphic artist, graphic designer

Dan Friedman (1945–1995) was a prolific graphic and furniture designer, artist, writer, and educator. Friedman’s work posed a radical challenge to tradition and commodification in design practice. His work is held in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.Read More →

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Giovanni Pintori (1912 – 1999) Italian Graphic Design

On: September 28, 2022

Tagged: Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹

Giovanni Pintori (1912–1999) was an Italian graphic designer best known for his advertising work with Olivetti. His posters for the Lettera 22 and Olivetti logo are renowned for their use of geometric shapes and minimalist design. Read More →

Poster for Nikon (1957) by Yusaku Kamekura

On: September 28, 2022

Tagged: Japan, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, japanese graphic design, Posters Japanese

Yusaku Kamekura’s poster emphasises the brilliance and clarity attained with the Nikon lens and the technical perfection of his client’s camera by using brilliant optical patterns and powerful, white letter-forms against an intensely dark background. Read More →

René Kieffer (1875 -1964) – French Bookbinder

On: September 21, 2022

Tagged: bookbinder, French, French Design

René Kieffer was a gilder at the Chambolle-Duru bindery for ten years. In 1903, set up his workshop at 99 boulevard St-Germain, Paris. Later he moved to 41 rue St-Andre-des-Arts and finally, in 1910, to 18 rue Seguier. A disciple of Henri Marius Michel, his work shifted from classical forms to motifs in the Art Nouveau style.Read More →

Robert Oxenaar (b.1939) Designer of Dutch Banknotes

On: August 11, 2022

Tagged: dutch design 🇳🇱, dutch designer 🇳🇱

Robert Oxenaar (1929 – 2017) Designer of Dutch banknotes and stamps. Head of the Art and Design branch of the Dutch postal service. Helped launch a new generation of Dutch designers in the 1970s, including notables like Gert Dumbar.Read More →

Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) American multi-disciplined designer

On: August 11, 2022

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, Bauhaus, Design, Paris, typographer, Typography

Herbert Bayer was one of the Bauhaus’s most influential students, teachers, and proponents. Most of Bayer’s photographs come from the decade 1928–38, when he was based in Berlin working as a commercial artist. He designed the show Road to Victory (1942), which would set the course for Steichen’s influential approach to photography.Read More →

Hiroshi Awatsuji (1929 – 1995) Japanese Textile Designer

On: August 11, 2022

Tagged: Design, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, textile, textile designer, textiles - japan

Hiroshi Awatsuji (1929- 1995) was a Japanese textile and graphic designer: born in Kyoto. He was considered the first Japanese textile designer to be recognised for contemporary design rather than for traditional art and craft. The main characteristic of his work was over sized motifs.Read More →

František Zelenka (1896 – 1942) – Czech architect and stage and graphic designer.

On: July 22, 2022

Tagged: constructivism, cubism, Czech Cubism, Czech Design 🇨🇿, Czech Designer 🇨🇿, Design, Designer, graphic designer, werkbund

František Zelenka (1896 – 1942) was a Czech architect and stage and graphic designer. He was born in Prague. Zelenka’s career in the theatre was initiated by K.H. Hilar, the National Theatre director in Prague in 1926.Read More →

Selwyn Image (1849- 1930) British Priest, Artist, Designer

On: July 20, 2022

Tagged: British, british artist, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧

In 1873, Image was ordained a priest in the Church of England. From 1882, he was associated with A.H. Mackmurdo in forming the Century Guild and designed the first issue (1884) of the Guild’s publication, The Hobby Horse. Read More →

Hermann Zapf (1918 – 2015) German Typographer and Calligrapher

On: July 19, 2022

Tagged: German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, Typography

Hermann Zapf (1918 – 2015) was born and educated in Nuremberg. Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, a calligrapher and typeface designer, was his wife. Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino are some of the typefaces he developed.Read More →

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