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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