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.


One of her favorite quotes.

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?