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.…
In 1908 Franco Grignani was born in Pieve Porto Morone in the north of Italy. Not much is known about his childhood, but his impact in the world of design began early. After attending a technical high school he entered the University of Pavia, where he got involved with the second generation futurists movement in…
“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…
Eddie Opara is an impressive figure in the graphic design space, both for his work and his methods for approaching design. Opara is a British man born in the city of Wandsworth, London in 1972. He attended Yale University and the London College of Printing where he majored in graphic design and received his Masters…
Painter, printmaker and sculptor Robert, or Bob, Fried is most well known for the psychedelic rock concert posters he created for many popular bands during San Francisco’s “Summer of Love”. He created posters and handbills for live music concerts, club dates and legendary events. He became very famous and influential in the time through his…
German painter, graphic designer, advertiser, and historian, Walter Dexel, was born on February 7th, 1890 in Munich, Germany. Dexel was a self-taught painter but eventually took private drawing classes, taught by H. Gröber, to sharpen the skills he learned by practicing himself at an early age. At the same time, from 1910 to 1914, Dexel…
Bruno Munari devoted his life to transforming art. He thrived in keeping art refreshing. Not only did he write children’s book but he also found letter forms to be toys and tools, signs and objects. His piece called, ABC Dada is one of six major letter projects created during Munari’s six-decade career as an…
As a significant contributor to the graphic design community, Ellen Lupton has served as not only a designer but a writer, curator, and critic as well. Currently, she is the curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College…