Peter Bil’ak was born in Czechoslovakia in 1973, now in his mid 40’s lives in the Netherlands. Peter Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, along with the Atelier National de Creation Typographique in Paris, and at Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht. His first major typeface project was published by…
Eddie Opara is a successful designer who began his career through his study of graphic design at Yale University in 1997 and working for well-known establishments such as 2×4 and currently, Pentagram. While the projects that he discussed during his presentation were centered towards designing brand identity, publications, packaging, and environments, I discovered that a…
Eddie Opara is one of the twenty-three owners of the Pentagram, the world’s largest independent design consultancy. His presentation for NC State’s College of Design spanned various aspects of his work over the expanse of his successful career and gave the audience lots to take away from it, no matter the age…
At one point in her life, Lillian Bassman was proud of her work, continuously being inspired by the fashion trends of the decade while discovering and experimenting with new printing techniques. That all changed in the era of the 60’s, when she left the fashion profession, she was discouraged and disappointed by the new fashion…
Lillian Bassman was an influential American photographer and painter during the 20th century. She excelled in fashion photography for most of her life, though she had originally started her career in painting. Eventually she went on to become a graphic designer and art director. Bassman niche is that her style of art is immediately recognizable…
Tadanori Yokoo is arguably one of Japan’s most prominent and influential graphic artists. Born on June 27, 1936 in the Hyogo prefecture of Nishiwaki, Japan, Yokoo grew up in his country during the prewar period as well as throughout the turmoil of World War II, living to see its impact on Japan. As a child,…
One of the most interesting things discussed in the two videos about designer Karin Fong was the way she decided on her career. She talks about how she always knew she wanted a career in the arts but she didn’t know until later that she wanted to make commercials and title sequences.…
While watching Elliot Earls Death and Resurrection of 1990’s Experimental Graphic Design, the only thing that I could think of at the time was that it was really weird and different in comparison to the styles of graphic design that I grew up looking at in the first decade of the 2000’s. The…
John Baskerville is notable in graphic design for his work with type design and print design. His name may be recognized from the typeface named after himself, Baskerville, a serif type with thin and thick contrast, great legibility, and often used in books or novels. John Baskerville was born at Sion Hill farm in Worcestershire,…
Steff Geisbuhler is a prominent graphic designer most well known for the NBC peacock logo shown in image 1, as well as the Time Warner Cable logo, which was later redesigned, more on that later. Geisbuhler was born in Zofingen, Switzerland where graphic design is much more prominent and as a kid he would run…
Sagi Haviv is a designer best known for his work and partnership with Chermayeff & Geismar. He has helped to design some of the most identifiable logos that we see on a day to day basis including “the logos for the US Open Tennis Championships, Leonard Bernstein at 100, Harvard University Press, Conservation International, and…
Paula Scher was born on October 6th, 1948 in Washington DC. Growing up, she was always the class artist. When Scher was a teenager, she would take three bus rides into the city so she could take art classes at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She also made posters and flyers for her…
Katie Salen is a “designer, educator, [animator], and gamer” who is “interested in the aesthetics of interactivity and the transformative potential of play” (2). Katie’s passions and accomplishments in design and technology is the exact reason why I chose to study her for this assignment. I am an avid gamer, computer scientist, and graphic artist…
Born and raised in New York since 1948, April Greiman is known as an “internationally acclaimed American graphic designer and artist,” (Design Lecture Series). While most were skeptical or opposed to integrating a computer into their practice as a result of the possibility of losing that genuine touch by hand, Greiman was a proponent in…
Born in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, Stephen Doyle grew up in a Jesuit high school, where an anonymous woman said to him, “You don’t know who I am, but I’m just calling to tell you that you are going to go to Cooper Union.” Doyle, perplexed, questioned what Cooper Union was. “The best art school…