Graphic design is an art and practice that involves planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content.It is also called communication design. Graphic designing as a profession has given birth to many amazing designers. These artists have gone on to change the world of graphic design for the better. Here is a collection of the most prolific graphic designers.
Giambattista Bodoni
Bodoni began his career with printmaking but is widely known for designing and engraving typefaces. A perfect example of his work is the font Bodoni.
Neville Brody
Brody started by designing record covers. Somewhere along the line, he became well known as the Art Director of the famous Face Magazine and typefaces. He is an accomplished
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William Caslon
Caslon started out as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a bookbinder’s tool cutter but is known for his typefaces.
Milton Glaser
Milton is the founder of New York Magazine.He is one of the most prolific American graphic designers of this era. Milton Glaser is responsible for famous modern icons like the 'I love New York' campaign which he designed for the New York State Department of Commerce and many advertising posters, soup cans and record covers.
Jonathan Ive
Jonathan is well known for his achievement as the iMac's principal designer. Some consider him as the best in industrial design and often refer him to as “the person responsible for Apple’s design magic.”
Aldus Manutius –
Aldus started out as a printer and publisher.He is most famous for inventing the Italic font.
William Morris
Morris had a wide variety of careers during his time ranging from architecture, poetry, textile designer to writer.Regardless of this, he was well known for his work of designing quality wallpapers. Also, he was a developer of fonts.
Wally Olins Wally was British practitioner of corporate identity and branding. At the height of his career, he received awards such as the Prince Philip Designers Prize in
Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith, publisher, and printer who introduced movable type and the printing press to Europeans. He invented his press around 1440 in the Holy Roman Empire. The introduction of the printing press marked the start of the Printing Revolution and allowed for increased diffusion of ideas throughout Europe. The printing press provided for the development of various intellectual movements throughout Europe after its invention. It also allowed for cheaper books and increased literacy among lower class Europeans.
Marcus has done many things he operates on different occupations. From him being a graphic designer for many different rappers such as, Big Flock, Bankroll Marky, Fame Reek, and other local artist. Also, worked with the University of Maryland Athletics as a graphic designer becoming one of there best workers.
using water colors and oils, and did excellent pen and ink drawings. He began to make a name for
Albert first became familiar with the identification of forms of writing and types of inks when he was raised on a farm and found that it just wasn’t for him. He attended the State College in Lansing and became interested in penmanship. Later he was offered a job teaching at Rochester Business Institute in 1882, where when he became a highly qualified teacher, lawyers began submitting documents to him. By 1920, business had grown so much that he had to leave Rochester. He went to New York City and opened an office
In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the Printing Press, which had a major impact on both the Renaissance and printing today, however there other movable type systems invented before Gutenberg’s Printing
Throughout time, there have been countless artists, designers and typographers that had the opportunity to make a bold statement, invent the next best thing or to engrave their name in the design industry for all eternity. Although ordinary people don’t realize a good design when they see it, they know it has attracted them somehow and they feel the need to ask and wonder how it came to be. Without question, Eric Gill has note ably revolutionized the type world. Without him there would be no benchmark for humanist typefaces; without Gill, there would be no Gill Sans, the font that will consistently be seen as a crisp, clean and readable font; as all typefaces should be. Despite for his one notorious face, he has created 11 typefaces, wrote
The book includes not only visuals but advice from Carson himself of what exactly his approaches are to certain spreads. Many have stated that it is a quote “ Excellent guide for those who are artist, professionals, and students”. As a graphic designer, he has also created content for singer David Bowe. Writing although one of his many loves was not what originally got his work noticed. The first publication of his work was in Beach Culture magazine. In the magazine, his love of experimental colors and layouts were first seen. To his dismay many during that time regarded him as “terrible” he garnered the attention of the Magazine Ray Gun. Working at Ray Gun put him on a much larger platform where his work was seen worldwide. He would eventually become the Editor for the magazine that would be described by USA Today as “Visually Stunning”. His techniques of bright colors and fonts that mimic graffiti are credit for why many young people began reading
The type designer I chose is Paul Renner he was an graphic artist, type designer, author, and teacher from Germany in the late 1800’s early 1900’s. As he started his artistic road he began in the study of architecture and painting in Berlin, which led him to work as a painter. Then he cofounded a private school of illustration in Munich. He was also the designer behind the typefaces Futura, Plak, Futura Black, Futura Schlagzeile, Ballade, Renner Antiqua, and Steile Futura. These typefaces are still being used today in big movie titles.
They created type faces that we use now that well known. One is my favorite which is for one of my favorites which is Hoefler Text, Archer, Requiem, and the very well known Gotham. There type has been found in very famous advertisements such as the Obama campaign which used Gotham, the Apple Macintosh, and museums such as the Whitney and Guggenheim. This is a very important type foundry due to the these are one of the types that been around for
Known to be the greatest sculptor of the 17th century and the creator of the Baroque style is Gianlorenzo Bernini. He was born on Dec. 7, 1598 in Naples, Italy and son to sculptor Pietro Bernini. Bernini’s father gave him his first art lessons as a child and by the age of 10 he was making great progress. Bernini began making sculptures and paintings. He was widely known for being such a young artist. In 1623 Bernini became the head builder for the church of St. Peter in Rome. The sculptor died on Nov. 28, 1680 in Rome, Italy. (Hillard)
Paul Rand was well-known to be making use of a wide variety of procedures or methods such as collage, typography, photography, and painting. He combined the elements to create visually distinctive modern image from design for magazine cover to a poster or even corporate logos. At Esquire and Apparel Arts Rand persistently worked as an art director for four years. During the early forties he created astounding covers for a magazine named Direction where he worked on Apparel Arts covers using
Considered one of the most influential typographers in history, John Baskerville made a significant mark on the world of print and type founding. Although considered a failure at printing during his lifetime he produced
Herb Lubalin was an American graphic designer, born in New York, March 17, 1918 and died March 17, 1981. He entered Cooper Union at age of 17 and he became entranced in the possibilities presented by typography (history graphic design). He practiced his considerable skills and attracted an array of designs when he worked with Sudler and Hennessey for 18 years. Lubalin had his own private studio in 1964 and this gave him the freedom to do a range of projects. Also, he created his first typeface called Pistilli Roman in1964. He worked for magazines published by Ralph Ginzburg: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde (history graphic design). The International Typeface Corporation was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler.
He also worked at freelance in London between 1972 up to 1979. He is a member of the German Design Council board and past president of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and the International Institute for Information Design (IIID). He is also a professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and he received an honorary doctorate from Pasadena Center of Art. As a typographer, he has made many accomplishments in his life such as being the founder of the following typefaces: FF Meta, ITC Officina, Lo-Type, FF Unit, Berliner Grotesk, FF Info and many more.
While he was printing books in Mainz, word was getting out all over Europe about how great this invention was. The letters were clearly legible from the metal types he used. Before he died, printing presses like the one’s he invented were being used all over Europe to spread the ideas of many other happy people.