“Brooklyn Bridge” is another work by Ruzicka. It is a wood engraving rather than metal. This engraving took a lot of attention to detail. As you can see, even the tiny waves in the water are intricately carved. He uses perspective by making the waves bigger in the foreground and they get smaller towards the…
Agyei Archer is a young graphic designer from Trinidad and Tobago that attended the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He also was a part of the Designing Fonts program offered at the Cooper Union. He’s been in the industry for about 15 years and has worked with many large-scale companies like Google, RISD, and the…
Alexander “Xanti” Schawinsky was born in Switzerland in 1904 and showed immense creativity from a young age. Schawinsky originally aimed to become an architect but had many varied interests. He eventually became known for his interest in photography, painting, and performance art, including stage art and set design. He was one of the founding members…
American Type designer Robert Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in the area of Southern California. Although he is now a known designer, he surprisingly attended University of California Los Angeles on an athletic scholarship for gymnastics. He later discovered the love he had for design and typography, and worked to run…
With origins in the late 90s, Optimo Type Foundry is the new generation of Swiss type design. Created in Geneva, Switzerland by the design trio Gilles Gavillet, Staphane Delgado, and David Rust, Optimo was started simply as a project for the three young designers to begin releasing their own fonts. This initiative had…
*Image found on: https://alchetron.com/Herbert-Horne Herbert Horne, born in London in 1864, was raised by an architect, Horace, and his mother, Hannah. While coming of age, Horne looked up to his father and chose to follow in his artistic footsteps; he began a partnership at a young age with an esteemed architect, Mackmurdo, who set out…
Sagi Haviv is an Isralei-American graphic designer and was born in Kibbutz Nachshonim, Israel in 1974. He spent the majority of his childhood in Nachshonim until high school where he attended an art school, Telma Yelin, in Givatayim, Israel. He and his family moved to New York in 1996 and he received a Bachelor of…
Farhad Fozouni is an award winning graphic designer well known for his typographic skills from Tehran, Iran. He studied Tehran Graphic Design at The Art & Architecture University of Azad and graduated with a bachelor of arts in 2004 which really kick-started his career. In 2005 he went back to University and obtained an IGDS…
Jay Chiat & Associates was founded in 1962 by Jay Chiat and eventually merged with Faust/Day in 1968 forming Chiat/Day Design Agency with Guy Day serving as the acting president of the company until 1988. Chiat/Day was founded on the principle that creativity is king and sought to push the boundaries of what many people…
Andrew Blauvelt has been a practicing graphic designer for more than 30 years. Blauvelt’s interest in graphic design started in high school when he was involved in his school newspaper where he helped in production. In an interview, he explains how he’s always been interested in art, taking art classes throughout school. He was introduced…
Paul Sahre is an American graphic designer who was born in 1964 and grew up in upstate New York in a small town named Johnson City. He attended Kent State University where he earned his bachelor’s in Fine Arts in 1987 and his master’s in Fine Arts in 1990. Later on, after completing his education,…
Geoff McFetridge is a Los Angeles based artist and designer who works across a multitude of different medias in his work. He has worked with many big name clients such as the New York Times, the Walker Art Center, and Nike, among many others. All of his works are colorful and fun but simple in…
Alan Peckolick was an American Graphic Designer, photographer and painter, creating logos for some of the more prominent companies in the world such as GM, Mercedes-Benz, and New York University. On October 3rd, 1940, the Bronx, New York, NY, received a newborn child that would come to eventually become a pioneer in expressive graphics and…
Charles Rennie Mackintosh is known as the father of the Glasgow style. The style was heightened primarily through the 1890s to 1910. Glasgow is identified by a lot of metal and woodwork as well as stained glass. There is a cabbage rose that is seen in much of Mackintosh’s work that was a defining factor.…
Edward Johnston was a well known designer that specialized in typography and calligraphy. He was born February 11, 1872 in San José de Mayo, Uruguay. He died November 26, 1944 in Ditchling, United Kingdom. He got married in 1903 to his wife, Greta. together they had 3 daughters. Johnston moved to England as a young…