Graphic Designer(s) Exhibition Options
Familiarize yourself with some designers, studios, and design movements on this list using the links provided. Please feel free to look beyond this list. Choose three that capture your interest, post one found image that corresponds to each, along with a description and blurb of why you chose them. After you post, review some classmates’ posts and comment on at least one.
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The later goal is to choose a designer(s), design studio or design movement you believe holds your attention enough to further research and plan a mock exhibition (Project 2) where you will be designing the promotional materials for, including brochure/catalog, lamp-pole banners, and instagram marketing. You could choose to curate the show around one designer, a design studio, or a theme. Here are some examples: Graphic Designers at the advent of the Apple Computer, or Women Graphic Designers of the 1980s, Graphic Design of the Bauhaus, Experimental Jetset: “turning language into objects,” Contemporary Graphic Design in Mexico, The Publication Design of Arem Duplesses, David Carson and the Surf aesthetic, Chicago Design History, Firebelly Design and The Grant for Good
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Sites:
Great resource from AIGA:
AIGA Medalists gallery
Designers by Decade:
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Design Is History
Print Magazine Black Graphic Designers You Should KnowLinks to an external site.
https://www.printmag.com/featured-design-history/13-african-american-graphic-designers-you-should-know/ (Links to an external site.)
PRINT Magazine Weekly is currently featuring a (series-in-parts) that students might like on Black Designers: Forward in Action
Here is the most recent: Part IV: https://www.printmag.com/post/black-designers-forward-in-action-part-ivLinks to an external site.
The Black Experience in Graphic Design: 1968 and 2020 –
https://www.printmag.com/post/the-black-experience-in-graphic-design-1968-and-2020Links to an external site.
Graphic Designers (19th century, early 20th):
William Morris
Jan Tschichold
El Lizzitzky
Graphic Designers (mid 20th century):
Josef-Mueller Brockmann
Herbert Bayer
Armin Hoffman
Aaron Douglas
Ruth Ansel
Alexy Brodavitch
Saul Bass
Wim Crawal
Paul Rand
Massimo Vignelli
Milton GlaserLinks to an external site. (just passed away in August)
LeRoy Winbush
Graphic Designers (later 20th century and now):
Neville Brody
Emmet McBainLinks to an external site.
James Miho
Lucille Tanazas
Rebeca Mendez
Sylvia Harris
April Greiman
David Carson
Art Chantry
Paula Scher
Michael Bierut
April Greiman
Marcia Lausen
Graphic Designers (21st century/now):
Arem Duplessis
Chip Kidd
Louise Fili
Gail Anderson
Stefan Sagmeister
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Eddie Opara (Links to an external site.)
Chicago Firms:
The Chicago Design Archive (Links to an external site.)
LeRoy WinbushLinks to an external site.
Carlos Segura, Segura
Rick Valicenti, Thirst
VSA Partners
Liska and Associates
Jilly Simmons (Concrete)
Crosby and Associates
Firebelly Design (Links to an external site.)
One Design
Grillo Group
New York firms:
Pentagram
Pushpin Studios
Europe:
Experimental Jetset, Amsterdam
Wolff Olins, London
Mucho, Spain
Mexico:
Anagrama
5 Inspiring Mexico Studios (Links to an external site.)
Other movements:
The Bauhaus
DiStijl
Dada
Constructivism
Type Designers:
Tré Seals, Zuzana Licko, Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Eric Gill, Adrian Frutiger, Hermann Zapf, Martin Majoor, and lots more, especially current type designers from South America and Europe, go discover!
