Elliott Peter Earls interest in design began around high school. In Cincinnati, Ohio Earls attended Jesuit high school with no particular interest in academics or art. It was his mother who suggested to him to take up drawing and painting to lead him into a career in graphic design. Afterwards, Earls began his journey into…
Alfred Roller designed this poster for the 16th Vienna Secession Exhibition in 1902 or 1903. It was one of a few that were designed to promote the exhibition. Although it is less famous than the other work that he did for the multiple exhibitions he had designed for, it still draws the viewer’s eye because…
Anton Stankowski Anton Stankowski was born in 1906 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is still to this day renowned for his many accomplishments and is universally known as one of the most influential names in late-modernist art as well as one of the central figures in the Constructive-Concrete style. His career first started when he was…
Another one of Ayegi Archers’ notable works has to do with the non-profit organization that he co-founded known as DO or Design Objectives. With this organization, he was able to design a typeface for his client Krs Joseph that founded the software design company CRISPY. This was one of his bigger client projects that he…
Agyei Archers’ first project that I choose to focus on is his variable font project for Google which is going to focus on a creole language that is based in Suriname. He did in-depth research for this project about linguistics and the language in general and was able to design and code a typeface system…
The work above is one of 16 book covers that was designed by Franco Grignani in 1969. Penguin Books publishing house was facing an economic crisis so Penguin hired a new art director David Pelham commissioned Grignani to draw attention back to Penguin. Grigani’s work was perfect for this job because of his experimental photography…
Karl Gerstner was born on July 2nd, 1930 in Switzerland. He is world-renown for his innovative work as both a painter and graphic designer. He studied at the Allgemeine Gewerbschule school in Basel, Switzerland, and apprenticed as a typographer under Armin Hoffman, Emil Ruder, Fritz Bühler. All of these designers helped to develop the Swiss…
Katie Butler: By the middle of the nineteenth century, Jules Cheret was a household name thanks to his distinct take on lithographs. Before Cheret reformed the technique of posters being tediously copied with austere and dull colors, this artist reinvented the wheel by painting directly onto stone with vibrant colors. One of his poster commissions…
Katie Butler: In the midst of the nineteenth century, cultures around the world were resetting on nearly every level. In America, at the cusp of events such as the Mexican- American War, the Civil War, the festering of the use of slavery, and the transition of the American mentality from Romantic ideals to Transcendentalism, almost…
Known for his unique variety of illustration and graphics, it had been no wonder that, American, left-handed, designer, Seymour Chwast, was able to make his mark within the world of design. Chwast began to make a reputation for himself around the late 1950s. His works exuded various senses of playfulness and expressiveness that…
Stanley Morison was an English typographer, scholar, and historian of printing. He was born on May 6, 1889 in Wanstead, England and he died on October 11, 1967 in London. He spent most of his time growing up at the family home him and his family had in London.…