IRMA BOOM

Irma Boom (born (1960-12-15)15 December 1960 in Lochem, Gelderland, Netherlands), is a Dutch graphic designer—who specializes in book making. Boom has been described as the ‘The Queen of Books’Having created over 300 books and is well reputed for her artistic autonomy within her field. Her bold experimental approach to her projects often challenges the convention of traditional books in both physical design and printed content.

Boom has been noted as the youngest recipient of the Gutenberg Prize, an award recognizing outstanding services to the advancement of the book arts.^[A selection of Boom’s books are exhibited in the permanent collection of MoMA, and a personalized Irma Boom Archive has been set up at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, showcasing Boom’s

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Eric Carle

Eric Carle is an American designer who is primarily known for is illustrations and writing of children's books. I figured seeing how our final project was book covers it would be fitting to have my last designer be related somehow
His most famous book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar, it is a picture

book that has very few words but has managed to get translated into over 62 languages and has sold more than 52 million copies. He has since published more than 70 books.
He was educated in Germany and his father was drafted into the German army During WWII, as well as he also being conscripted to help did trenches at the age of 15. His wife believe that this

experience has had a lasting effect on him in the form of post traumatic stress.
His career was actually started because Bill Martin, Jr. Noticed a lobster that he has created for an ad, and wanted to collaborate on a picture book, call Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? which became a best-seller.
He has an art style that is recognizable from his collage technique. He uses hand-printed papers, and his books have an added dimension of die-cut pages, twinkling light, or even sounds. He tends to draw his inspiration from his love of nature, which may help him also in his writing of these books seeing as children tend to share the same thoughts and frame of mind.

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Shelia Levrant de Bretteville

Shelia Levrant de Bretteville was born in the 1940's. She is a feminist and was in her 20's and 30's when the feminism was getting big. She was the first tenured woman to join the Yale New Haven Art faculty in the 1990's. You can find her art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angela's,  the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in many other places. She has earned many degrees from various different institutes and colleges. She earned a BA in Art History at Barnard in 62, M.F.A at Yale University in 64, and honorary degrees at many other Institutes. In 71 at the California Institute of Arts she created the first women's design program. She also worked with magazines one was redesigning the Los Angela's Times.  She has also worked on newspapers and books.

I too wrote about Jessica Walsh, who is an American Graphic Designer in her own right. Also an illustrator and partner at creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh.

A New York native and raised in Connecticut Walsh's work appeared in numerous books, magazines and newspapers which included the New York Times, blending photography and hand crafted paintings with digital design, her designs were described as "bold and provocative.

Presently Walsh teaches design and typography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is represented by Creative Artists Agency.

Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson was a graphic designer that was best known for his designing of album covers for many top music artists. Many of the artists he has designed for, I have listened too. Many of us have been exposed to this talented designer’s images. Storm was actually a young teenage friend of guitarist David Gilmour from Pink Floyd; he also served as Gilmour’s best man in his wedding in 1994. Storm Thorgerson designs are well known for their surreal elements they hold. 

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William Caslon

This week I'm taking back, way back, back into time (Sorry couldn't resist). This is William Caslon, he actually started out as an English gunsmith, and it was because of his typefaces and the fact that they were so legible that it help secure his spot as one of the leading printers during that time in England. Graphic Designers where a thing even before they were a thing it seems.

Born in Cradley, Worcestershire, he learned to be an engraver in Birmingham, started his own business in London in 1716 engraving gun locks and barrels, and a bookbinder's tool cutter (hmm books and typefaces, might there be a correlation between this choice an our current project?)

His biggest claim to fame just might be the fact that his typeface was used in the first printed version of the United States Declaration of Independence. Ironic seeing as he is British. While his typefaces fell out of favor about a year after his death they were later revived in the late 1840's and they are also widely used today.

JESSICA WALSH

Jessica Walsh at the young age of 29 has made much success. She is currently a partner at Sagmeister & Walsh and teaching at the School of Visual Art's. Jessica went to the the Rhode Island School of Design and after graduating was asked to join Apple. Jessica turned down the six figure offer to intern with Paula Scher, a principal at the design firm Pentagram. Jessica became a success and worked with Levi's, music artist, retail, and more. At the small age of 11 she began to teach her self  coding and web design, also Jessica in her early years created an HTML & CSS tutorial site that offered free templates for blogging. Her work has been awarded along with her self. Jessica is another young and inspiring graphic designer with much more to give.


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John Alvin

 

This Designer was very interesting to me because John Alvin has worked on very famous movies that I grew up watching.

John Henry Alvin (November 24, 1948 February 6, 2001) was an American cinematic artist and painter who illustrated many popular movie posters. Alvin created posters and key for more than 135 films, beginning with the poster for Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974^]His style of art became known as Alvinesque by friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry

Alvin's work included the movie posters for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, Gremlins, The Color Purple, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion KingHe also created the anniversary posters for Star Wars.

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Eric Carle was an American designer that wrote children's books as well as an illustrator in his own right. His books were sold all over the world totaling up to 62 millions copies, Witnessing challenging times, Eric escaped bombings and saw people killed a  few feet away from him,which his wife believed he suffered post-traumatic stress.

During his writing and Illustrating years Eric's work became recognizable, most of his work seemed to have been in collage form with bright and colorful images.According to wikipedia.org his work was not only entertaining, it was also an opportunity to teach the world something.

In his own words.... " With many of my books I attempt to bridge the gap between the home and school. To me home represents, or should represent; warmth , security, toys, holding hands, being held. School is a strange and new place for a child. Will it be a happy place? There are new people, a teacher, classmates-will they be friendly?

Fons Hickmann

Fons Hickman

Fons is a German Graphic Designer, typographer, author and professor of Communication Design.

He studies photography and communication Design at the Fachhochschule Dusseldorf and Aesthetics and Media Theory in Wuppertal.

The M23 Design Studio that he own is actually a company that has it's hands in a lot of different things from developing communications systems, and corporate designs, it also designs books, posters and magazines.  His company is also in the field of web design.

He and his company both have earned a great many awards (over 200) for various designs that have come from their desks. Because of this he and his studio were invited to exhibit at the opening of the world's first museum of graphic design. The "Graphic Design Museum" in Breda. His studio M23 is one of the world's most prestigious agencies, and Fons is still involved in the publishing of literature that is devoted to many different fields from photography to pop-cultural phenomena.

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Alexey Brodovitch

Alexey Brodovitch was born in Russia in 1898 after fighting in World War II he started working as a designer in Paris. He spent 10 years in Paris from 1920 to 1930. Brodovitch later moved to New York was hired in 1934 to work for ‘Harper Bazaar’ magazine. The editor Carmel Snow hired Brodovitch to revamp the magazine with a more modern twist. Alexey succeeded in this task and went on to revolutionize the American magazine. He was known for his two page spreads and giving his design motion. Bodovitch changed the way the magazine used color, space, and size. ‘Harper Bazaar’ is where he made his legacy as a designer.  Alexey Bodovitch also was known for his collaboration with Frank Zachary on ‘Portfolio’ magazine. Bodovitch also taught at the Philadelphia college of Art. Here he taught his students that making mistakes is okay and treated his students as his equals. He encouraged them and incorporated real design products into the classroom allowing the students to give their input. 

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser

 

Milton Glaser is an American graphic designer. Milton is responsible for designing some very well-known graphic designs. Many of which I am sure we are all familiar with seeing. One that stands out is the “DC Comic bullet logo”, among many other well known and recognized designs. Milton was also co-founder of “Push Pin Studios” a graphic design and illustration studio, of which he founded with three fellow Cooper Union graduates, 1954 in New York City. He also designed the very well known Bob Dylan poster.

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Johnathan Barnabrook is a British typographer, filmmaker, and graphic designer.  He studied at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins.  Johnathan Barnbrook's graphic design is often expressive of his personal responses to political events and what he deems the unfairness that exists in this world. He has said his ambition is to use "design as a weapon for social change".  Notably, Johnathan Barnbrook designed  David Bowie’s, 2002 album Heathen’s cover art work and went on to design the sleeves for all of Bowie's studio albums.  Font design is another of Johnathan Barbrook’s occupations and he’s released a series of provocatively named fonts which includes Bastard, False Idol, Infidel, Sarcastic, and Shock and awe.

                 His work is well known in Japan where his studio worked on the corporate identity of Mori Arts Center and Mori Art Museum.  He has also worked for Shiesedo a Japanese multi -national personal care company.  His studio is also responsible for the completion of the logo and identity for the largest post war development in Tokyo, Roppongi Hills.  He currently lives and works in London.

            Reza Abedini was Born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran and has worked as a graphic designer since 1989.  He is currently a professor at at the University of Tehran and has been since 1996 which is his also where he graduated from in 1992 and earned a Bachelor of Arts . Upon graduation he became the Editor of the visual section of Sureh monthly magazine until 1993 when he struck out on his own and started the Reza Abedini Studio.   He is currently an Art critic and Editor-in-Chief of Manzar magazine and Iranian Art publication. 

            He is also a member of several prestigious graphic design associations like the Iranian Graphic Designers Society and the Alliance Graphique International.  He’s earned  numerous awards for his work which include, first prize and gold medal at the 8th International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico 2004, first prize for best film poster of Fajr International Film Festival Iran 1993-94-96,  and  first prize at The First international Biennale of the Islamic world Poster Iran 2004 to name a few.  He was named one of the world’s outstanding post digital graphic designers in Meggs.

            Notably and in testament to his personal creativity and unique production of his graphic design style, Reza Abedini received the Principal Prince Claus Award in recognition of his personal approach in applying and acknowledging the accomplishments of Iranian heritage. The award also focuses attention on the diversity of both the historical and the modern Iranian culture which he, through his work, embodies and makes his designs very unique and distinctive. 

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Pilar Zeta was born June 15, 1986 in Bueno Aires, Argentina.  She’s actually done album cover art work for Head full of Dreams, the 2015 release from one of my favorite bands, ColdPlay.  She pretty much found her calling very early in life, drawing and painting since she was six years old.  Her early exposure to art museums by her father,  Indigo children philosophies from her mother, and  introduction to 1960’s bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin by her brother, she found herself very interested in cosmology, metaphysics, and later meditation, the techniques and colors used in the artwork in the museums, and the psychedelic  album covers of the bands.  She was fascinated by art but completely blown away at the ability to create works of art using computers.  She knew she would be a graphic designer and at the age of 19 she did just that when she landed her first graphic design job.  

I took a look at some of her work and found it to be very out there!  She uses a lot of color, geometric shapes and out of this world themes.  I think she is very interesting because she is not afraid to step way outside of the box which I feel not only enhances her work but distinguishes her work from all others.  You definitely get a feel for all of her earlier influences in her work, especially the metaphysics, cosmology and psychedelic trip you feel like you’re on when you look at it.

Henry Charles Beck

 

Henry Charles Beck known as Harry Beck, was an English technical draughtsman 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 engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office. London Underground was initially skeptical of Beck's radical proposal, an uncommission spare-time project, but tentatively introduced it to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It was immediately popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since.

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