Zhou Peng is a fine art photographer who originated from Shanghai, China. He first started out as an oil painter as well as shooting photography for commercial agencies before shifting to art photography and mixed media after moving to the United States where he really started to consider himself a craftsman and artist. He studied…
The graphic design studio The Designers Republic (abbreviated as TDR) was founded by Ian Anderson in 1986 (pictured above). Anderson was born in 1961 Croydon, London and moved to Yorkshire to study philosophy at The University of Sheffield from 1979-1982. He quickly became engrained in the local music scene and became an entirely self-taught designer…
Wolff Olins is a global design agency that has been creating transformative brands with the goal to move organizations, people, and the world forward. Operating for over 50 years, they have been responsible for delivering strategy, design and change to help advance organizations in moments of inflection. Some of their organizations and partners include The…
Lisa Strausfeld is an American Designer that specializes in information architect and data visualization. She is the principal of Informationart and currently leads design at System: a free public resource whose goal is to connect and explain the relations of anything to everything in the world. Strausfeld was born in 1964 New Jersey and was…
Can Yang is a freelance graphic designer based in London born in the year 1994. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2018 in BFA Graphic Design and recently graduated from Royal College of Art in 2021 in MA Design and Visual Communications. She is a multidisciplinary artist working with different mediums…
Kazumasa Nagai, a modernist and Japanese traditionalist. This famed graphic designer was born on April 20th, 1929 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He had begun to study sculpture at Tokyo National University of Art, but had dropped out in 1951 due complications with his fundus hemorrhage. Caused by overworking before and after WW2, his hemorrhage…
Krone’s VW Campaign- “Will we ever kill the bug?”[7] Through striking imagery, clever campaigns, and unique perspectives, Helmut Krone ushered in the new generation of modern advertising utilizing just one charming staple of the 1960’s: the Volkswagen Beetle. The iconic art director was born on July 16th, 1925, in Yorkville New York. At a young…
Vaughn Oliver was a graphic designer whose vinyl sleeve designs became some of the most iconic images of the 80s and 90s punk and rock music scene. He was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, England, on September 12th, 1957 to Doreen, who was his mother, and Ernest Oliver, his father. He grew up in a…
Eiko Ishioka was a provocative designer, who was able to create pieces by blending Eastern and Western influences and bold compositions which helped drive her through the primarily male dominated field of graphic design in Japan and to break into the western media, leaving her name in history. Born in 1938, Ishioka was exposed…
“Méndez has committed to diversity and inclusion, and she is a role model for aspiring young women designers across Latin America.” – UCLA, Design Media Arts, 2022, https://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=32 Rebeca Méndez was born in Mexico City in 1962. She immigrated to California, United States, in 1980. There, Rebeca graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Design…
Born December 14th in 1890, Edward McKnight Kauffer was an American artist and graphic designer who focused on poster art, but also worked as a painter, book illustrator, and theater designer. Beginning his studies at California School of Design in 1910, it was here that he earned the attention of Professor Joseph McKnight from the…
The artist that I chose for my project is Phil Baines. In 1958, He was born in Kendal, Cumbria, Cumbria is a small county in northwest England. Phil Baines did not immediately begin in the world of Graphic Design. Before pursuing graphic design, Phil Baines went to school and studied to become a Roman Catholic priest at Ushaw College, Durham. He…
Harumi Yamaguchi is a Japanese visual artist and painter. She was born in 1941 in Matsui, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. She trained at the Tokyo University of Art, majoring in oil painting. She started her career as a freelance worker and made advertisement illustrations for PARCO, a department store chain in Japan that “incorporates other cultural…
Seymour Chwast, often called “the left-handed designer,” is an American graphic designer known for his diverse body of work and notable influences on illustration, typeface, and visual culture throughout the last century. Referred to as a “revolutionary of visual culture,” Chwast is most famous for his commercial artwork, which include posters, magazine covers, and publicity…
Barbara deWilde was born in 1962. She is a physical and digital designer with a focus on typography, graphic design, art direction, and interaction design as well as a mentor for other designers. deWilde is currently an Executive Creative Director in the Product and Design group at The New York Times where she oversees a…