Archive Reference

8vo

8vo was a London-based graphic design firm formed by Simon Johnston, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir in 1985 and ran until 2001. They produced the famous Octavo desig…

A.G. Fronzoni

Angiolo Giuseppe Fronzoni (AG Fronzoni) was an Italian designer, educator, publisher, industrial designer and architect. He excelled in minimalist design and hi…

A.M. Cassandre

Born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in Kharkow, Ukraine, in 1901. A.M. Cassandre moved to Paris in 1915. Studied at the Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. His first…

Aagje Martens

Explore related designers including Karel Martens and Wim Crouwel. See also Dutch Modernism, Dutch graphic design history, Books.

Abram Games

Abram Games worked with clients including the United Nations, London Transport, British Airways, Shell, the Financial Times and Guinness. 'In the Second World W…

Ad Petersen

Ad Petersen was a Dutch graphic designer and curator active in the mid-to-late twentieth century. He was closely associated with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,…

Adolf Rademacher

Adolf Rademacher was a German graphic designer and typographer active in the early to mid-20th century. Explore related designers including Lucian Bernhard a…

Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Switzerland, in 1928 and trained as a compositor before studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. Moving to Paris in …

Airside

Airside were a British design agency which operated from 1998 -2012. They produced work for Coca-Cola, MasterCard, Greenpeace, MTV, Panasonic and Sony and visua…

Alain Cornic

Alain Cornic was a illustrator and designer, best known for his tourist brochures and cartographic publications created for clients like Shell, Air France, and …

Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher was born in Kenya and studied at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, continuing at the Royal College of Art and Design of Yale University. He…

Alan Kitching

Alan Kitching is a letterpress typographer and printmaker. He is recognised for his expressive use of wood and metal type, producing both commissioned work and …

Alan Peckolick

Alan Peckolick (born in New York, 3 October 1940) was an American graphic designer associated with the influential New York design scene of the 1960s and 1970s.…

Albe Steiner

Albe Steiner was born in Milan in 1913 and began his design career in 1933. His works have been published in the main international magazines and many of his po…

Alex Steinweiss

Alex Steinweiss was born in 1917 and was a pioneering graphic designer who revolutionised album cover art while working as Columbia Records' first art director.…

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder, born in 1898, was an American sculptor and a member of an artistic family, his father was a sculptor, and his mother and grandfather were acco…

Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) was a Russian artist, graphic designer, photographer, and theorist, and a central figure of Constructivism. Rodchenko is best kn…

Alexey Brodovitch

Alexey Brodovitch is a Russian-born art director and designer best known for his groundbreaking work at Harper’s Bazaar, where he transformed magazine design th…

Allen Hurlburt

Allen F. Hurlburt was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1910. He died in 1984. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly Art Director for …

Almir Mavignier

Almir Mavignier is a Brazilian designer and artist associated with concrete art and the Ulm School of Design, known for systematic visual structures, optical ef…

Aloísio Magalhães

Aloísio Magalhães, a Brazilian graphic designer and one of the key figures in establishing modern visual identity work in Brazil. Explore related designers i…

Alvin Lustig

Alvin Lustig was born in Colorado in 1915 and attended Los Angeles City  College and the Arts Centre School. He was talented in many areas record album design t…

André François

André François was born on November 9, 1915, and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1933 and the Ecole de Cassandre in Paris in 1934-35. His work includes …

André Toet

André Toet was a Dutch graphic designer active in the mid-to-late twentieth century. His work reflects the broader tradition of Dutch postwar graphic design, an…

Andrzej Klimowski

Andrzej Klimowski (born 1949) is a Polish-born designer and illustrator known for film posters, theatre graphics, and experimental illustration. Educated in War…

Andrzej Strumiłło

Andrzej Strumiłło (born 1927) was a Polish artist, illustrator, and designer whose work encompassed painting, printmaking, book illustration, and exhibition des…

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola, 1928, Pittsburgh – died 1987, New York) was an American artist, illustrator, and filmmaker. He was also one of the most influe…

Anthon Beeke

Anthon Beeke (1940–2018) was a Dutch graphic designer known for his provocative and experimental posters. He was a key figure in the Dutch design avant-garde an…

Anthony Burrill

Anthony Burrill is a British graphic designer, printmaker, and illustrator known for his typographic work and messages. Working mainly with letterpress printing…

Anthony Froshaug

Anthony Froshaug (1920–1984) was a British typographer, printer, and educator whose teaching and practice were highly influential in postwar British design. He …

Anton Stankowski

Anton Stankowski was a German graphic designer born in 1906. He studied graphics in Essen with Burcharts and in the 1930s he worked in Zurich at the Max Dalang …

Antoni Clavé

Antoni Clavé studied for six years at evening classes at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Barcelona. He then began to illustrate children's magazines, but soon tu…

Antonio Frasconi

Antonio Frasconi was a Uruguayan-born artist known for his woodcuts and illustration work, who studied in New York and later taught at the New School and other …

April Greiman

April Greiman is a pioneering designer who merged European Modernism with the bold, experimental style of California New Wave. She was born in New York in 1948,…

Archigram

Archigram was an experimental British architecture and design collective active in the 1960s, known for speculative projects, radical visions, and publications …

Arlette Brouwers

Arlette Brouwers is a Dutch graphic designer active in the mid-to-late twentieth century. Her work reflects the strong typographic and visual communication trad…

Armando Milani

Armando Milani studied at the Scuola Umanitaria in Milan and worked successively for Ufficio Grafico Roche, Studio Giulio Confalonieri and Studio Antonio Bogger…

Armin Hofmann

Armin Hofmann is one of the most famous Swiss graphic designers best known for his poster designs Theatre Basel. He was a director of the graphic design course …

Arne Ungermann

Arne Ungermann was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1902. By the age of twenty he had learnt about lithography and turned to newspaper work; was engaged by the big d…

Arnold Saks

Arnold Saks was born in New York City in 1931 and studied at Syracuse University and the Yale School of Design. He worked across logo designs, corporate identit…

Ashley Havinden

Ashley Havinden was born in 1903 in Maidstone, Kent. Leaving school without formal qualifications, he began his career as a trainee at a printing company in Wat…

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and writer known for his black ink drawings, influenced by Japanese woodcuts. His work often explored themes…

Aurobind Patel

Aurobind Patel is an Indian graphic designer and art director known for his pioneering role in Indian editorial design. He served as Art Director for India Toda…

Baer Cornet

Baer Cornit (1919–2012) was a Dutch graphic designer, typographer, and educator. Like Wim Crouwel, his work is characterised by clarity, structural discipline, …

Banks & Miles

Banks & Miles were a British graphic design partnership known for their posters, publications, identities, and exhibition graphics in particular for the gov…

Barney Bubbles

Barney Bubbles (1942–1983) was a British graphic designer and art director best known for his album covers. His work combined pop culture, surrealism, and const…

Barry Zaid

Barry Zaid is a Canadian designer and illustrator whose work spans book covers, posters, and packaging. Explore related designers including Kazumasa Nagai a…

Baumann & Baumann

Baumann & Baumann is a German graphic design studio founded by Barbara and Gerd Baumann in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Their work spans corporate identity, editorial …

Ben Bos

Ben Bos was a Dutch graphic designer and Total Design member who advanced modernist corporate identity systems. Explore related designers including Wim Crouw…

Ben Nicholson

Ben Nicholson was born in Buckinghamshire to artists William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. He studied at the Slade School of Art in 1910–11 and spent time in Franc…

Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist known for his social realism, who worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration and designed pos…

Benno Wissing

Benno Wissing was a Dutch graphic designer specialising in design for cultural and industrial clients. His clients included Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotte…

Bernard Stein

Bernard Stein is a German designer and publisher who co-founded the Berlin studio Ott+Stein with Nicolaus Ott and was a creative director at Metadesign. His wor…

Bernard Villemot

Bernard Villemot was a student of Paul Colin. He worked as a poster designer, creating posters for the S.N.C.F., Air France; French ministries and public bodies…

Bert Stern

Bert Stern was born in New York and was first employed as an assistant at an art studio. At the age of 20, he bought his first camera and did his military servi…

Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing (1920–2002) was a British publisher, poet, sound artist known for his concrete poetry. Explore related designers including Alan Kitching and Ant…

Bob Gill

Bob Gill was a co-founder of Pentagram and is known for his approach to problem-solving in graphic design, producing influential posters, books and teaching mat…

Bob Noorda

Bob Noorda studied at the Design Institute of Amsterdam. He was a teacher at the technical-artistic courses in Milan and at the advanced course of Industrial De…

Bohuslav Blažej

Bohuslav Blažej was a Czech typographer and graphic designer, designing many cover designs for Typografia magazine through the late 1960s and 1970s. Explor…

Bradbury Thompson

Bradbury Thompson was born in Kansas in 1911 and studied at Washburn College. He began working at Westvaco in 1938 on Inspirations, the West Virginia Paper and …

Brian Grimbly

Brian Grimbly is a British graphic designer and art editor. His work is featured on many issues of Design, the journal of the Council of Industrial Design. Grim…

Briggs and McLaren

Briggs and McLaren was the British graphic design partnership of Ken Briggs and Ian Mclaren. Their practice sat firmly within a modernist tradition, emphasising…

Bronisław Zelek

Bronisław Zelek was born in 1935 and was a Polish graphic designer, poster artist and typeface designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under …

Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer, an author, and educator. He is best known for founding Bruce Mau Design, where the practice designs books, exhibitions, identi…

Bruce Rogers

Bruce Rogers (1870–1957) was an American typographer and book designer regarded as one of the greatest in this field. He also designed the typeface Centaur. …

Bruno K Wiese

Bruno K Wiese was born in 1922 in Berlin and studied at the Higher Institute of Figurative Arts between 1945 and 1949, collaborating with O.H.W. Hadank until he…

Bruno Monguzzi

Bruno Monguzzi is a Swiss graphic designer and typographer, closely associated with the Swiss International Style. Monguzzi has designed many posters, exhibitio…

Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari worked as a graphic designer, industrial designer, architect, writer, philosopher and educator. His clients included Cinzano, IBM, Olivetti and Pir…

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an American architect and designer. He explored systems thinking and sustainable design. Best known for the geodesic dome and…

Büro Destruct

Büro Destruct is a Swiss graphic design collective founded in Bern in 1994. Known for their experimental digital aesthetic, the studio’s work spans type design,…

Burton Kramer

Burton Kramer was born in 1932 and studied graphic design at Yale University, visual communication at the Institute for Design in Chicago and, with a Fulbright …

Cal Swann

Cal Swann studied typography at Leicester College of Art, earning his NDD in 1956. After completing RAF National Service, he worked in print design, advertising…

Camille Graeser

Camille Graeser (1892–1980) was a Swiss painter and designer associated with the Concrete Art movement. Graeser painted geometric, constructivist style painting…

Carl B. Graf

Carl B. Graf was a Swiss graphic designer and typographer known for his advertising, poster, and lettering work. Explore related designers including Emil Ru…

Carlo Vivarelli

Carlo Vivarelli spent four years apprenticing at a graphic art studio in Zurich. In 1939, he moved to Paris to study under Paul Colin and attended various art s…

Cato

Cato is an Australian design and branding agency founded in Melbourne by Ken Cato in 1970. The studio has created identity systems for international corporation…

Cecil Keeling

Cecil Keeling trained at the Chelsea School of Art, London. His professional career started in the studios of a London firm of printers. Then, at several agenci…

Celestino Piatti

Celestino Piatti was born in 1922 and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich. He spent most of his life living in Basel and opened his own studio there. He…

Charles E. Murphy

Charles E. Murphy was an American art director and graphic designer, who was born in New York in 1933. He studied at the Yale School of Art and Architecture, gr…

Charles Loupot

Charles Loupot was a French designer best known for his poster designs. He created posters for over fifty years. He designed for Galerie Barbès, Voisin cars, Pe…

Charles S. Anderson Design Co.

Charles S. Anderson Design Co. was founded in Minneapolis in 1989 by Charles S. Anderson. The studio is best known for its retro-modern graphics and the extensi…

Charley Harper

Charley Harper (August 4, 1922 – June 10, 2007) was an American artist known for his distinctive approach to Modernist illustration of animals, working primaril…

Chermayeff & Geismar

Chermayeff & Geismar Are influential American graphic design studio specialising in corporate identity, branding, and logo design for cultural and commercia…

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is an American graphic designer, writer, and editor. Explore related designers including Paul Rand and Tibor Kalman. See also Postmodernism and 199…

Chris Ashworth

Chris Ashworth is a British graphic designer and writer known for typography, criticism, and handmade approach to graphic design. A lover of Letraset and all th…

Colin Banks

Colin Banks was a British graphic designer, co-founder of Banks & Miles, the London studio known for corporate identity and signage work, including projects…

Colin Forbes

Colin Forbes was born in London in 1928 and studied at Sir Anthony Browne's College in Brentwood and trained professionally and artistically at the Central Scho…

Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes

Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes was a British design partnership known for influential postwar British graphic design work across publishing, advertising, and corporate …

Dafi Kühne

Dafi Kühne (born 1982) is a Swiss graphic designer and letterpress printer. He is known for merging digital tools with traditional printing techniques. Kühne’s …

Dan Friedman

Dan Friedman was a graphic and furniture designer, artist, writer, and educator known for challenging mainstream design through radical, experimental work. Afte…

Dan Reisinger

Dan Reisinger was born in Yugoslavia and settled in Israel in 1949 where he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. After his military service, he wor…

Daphne Duijvelshoff

Daphne van Peski (Duijvelshoff) was born in 1942. She was a designer at Total Design and designed many Stedelijk Museum catalogues with Wim Crouwel. Daphne was …

Daphne Padden

Daphne Padden (1927–2009) was born in Lambeth, London, and studied Design for Painting at the Epsom & Ewell School of Art. Throughout her career, she produc…

David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer and design director known for his experimental typographic work and distinct style. He worked as an art director fo…

David King

David King (1943–2016) was a British graphic designer and art director best known for his influential work as art director of The Sunday Times Magazine in the 1…

Deborah Sussman

Deborah Sussman was a pioneer of Environmental Graphic Design, known for blending bold graphics with architecture—a practice she called “graphitecture.” Her vib…

Dennis Bailey

Dennis Bailey studied at the West Sussex College of Art and the Roal College of Art in London. He worked in Zurich for Graphis magazine in 1956 and in 1966 he w…

Derek Birdsall

Derek Birdsall was born in Yorkshire in 1934. His clients included magazines such as Town, Twen and Nova and numerous companies and organisations including  Bri…

Design Research Unit

Design Research Unit were a British design group founded in 1942 that shaped post-war corporate identity through modernist graphic design. Explore related de…

Dick Bruna

Dick Bruna (born Hendrik Magdalenus Bruna; 23 August 1927 – 16 February 2017) was a Dutch author, artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is best known fo…

Dick Dooijes

Dick Dooijes was a Dutch graphic designer and typographer, born in 1909, who worked at the Amsterdam Type Foundry (Lettergieterij Amsterdam) for much of his car…

Dick Elffers

Dick Elffers was a Dutch graphic designer and artist, whose recognisable style features brighter painterly brush strokes and lettering. He designed record cover…

Dieter Urban

Dieter Urban (born 1938) - German graphic designer, typographer, and editor whose work spans advertising, editorial design, signage, and visual communication. T…

Dietmar R. Winkler

Dietmar R. Winkler is a typographer and designer associated with modernist graphic design and typography. Explore related designers including Jacqueline Case…

Diter Rot

Dieter Roth (often credited as Diter Rot) was a Swiss-German artist and designer known for his experimental books, prints, and typographic works. Explore re…

Donald Brun

Donald Brun trained in a graphic art studio in Basle and at the Akademie für Freie und Angewandte Kunst in Berlin under O.H. W. Hadank and Professor Böhm. He es…

Donald Judd

Donald Judd is a American artist associated with Minimalism whose work in sculpture, furniture, and design emphasised clarity of form, industrial materials, and…

Dorrit Dekk

Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann, later known as Dekk, was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and fled Nazi-occupied Austria to study commercial design in London, later ser…

Eckersley-Lombers

Eckersley-Lombers was a design partnership between Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers, producing influential British design and graphic work characterised by illust…

Ed Fella

Ed Fella began his career in commercial design studios in Detroit in the 1950s. He spent 30 years practising as a graphic designer and illustrator, working on p…

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian printmaker, lithographer, and painter. He was best known for his woodcuts using many colours and his highly expressionistic paintin…

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey (born in Chicago, 22 February 1925) was an American illustrator, writer, and designer. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Harvard Unive…

Edward Johnston

Edward Johnston (1872–1944) was a British calligrapher and lettering artist widely regarded as the father of the modern calligraphy revival in Britain, teaching…

Edward McKnight Kauffer

Edward McKnight Kauffer was one of Britain’s most highly influential 20th Century Poster Artists and Graphic Designers. He was born in Montana in 1890 and moved…

Eiko Ishioka

Eiko Ishioka (1938–2012) was a Japanese art director, graphic designer, and costume designer. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and worked in adve…

El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky was a Russian designer, painter, printmaker, architect and typographer. He was born in 1890 and died in 1941. He was mentored by Kazimir Melvevich …

Elaine Lustig Cohen

Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927–2016) was an American designer and artist. After working with her husband Alvin Lustig, she developed her own career in architectural …

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly, an American artist associated with hard-edge painting and minimal abstraction, whose work explored colour, shape, and visual, sculpture, and pr…

Emil Maurer

Swiss graphic designer active in mid-century typography and corporate communication. Explore related designers including Max Bill and Carlo Vivarelli. See al…

Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder apprenticed as a compositor in Zurich from 1929 to 1933 and later studied in Paris in 1938. He attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Zurich from …

Emili Ferrer

Emili Ferrer Espel (often signing as E. F. Ferrer) was a Catalan illustrator active during the 1910s and 1920s, known for his refined Art Deco and Noucentista s…

Erberto Carboni

Erberto Carboni was an Italian designer, best known for his work for RAI (Italian Radio and TV), he designed advertisement matter, illustrations and exhibitions…

Eric Gill

Eric Gill (1882–1940) was a British sculptor, typographer, and printmaker. He designed typefaces including Gill Sans and Perpetua and worked on many early moder…

Eric Lancaster

Eric Lancaster was born in 1911 and studied under Jean Carlu at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, later working with him on numerous projects. His main c…

Eric Lombers

Eric Lombers was a graphic designer who worked in Britain and collaborated with Tom Eckersley on poster and graphic design projects. Explore related designer…

Erik Nitsche

Erik Nitsche studied at the Collège Classique in Lausanne, the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich under Professor Ehmcke, and in Paris with Maximilien Vox. He worked …

Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer, type designer, and graphic designer born in Stadthagen in 1947. He studied art history at the Free University of Berli…

Ernst Keller

Ernst Keller was widely regarded as a foundational figure in establishing the international prestige of Swiss graphic design. He served as Professor of Graphic …

Erwin Poell

Erwin Poell was born in 1930 in Ravensburg and was an award-winning German graphic designer working across stamp design, logo designer, book and magazine design…

Eugène Mihaesco

Eugène Mihaesco (born in Bucharest, 24 August 1937) was a Romanian-born illustrator. He studied art in Bucharest before settling in Lausanne in 1966, where he w…

Eugenio Carmi

Eugenio Carmi was born in Genoa in 1920 and studied chemistry at the ETH in Zurich; he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule and studied at the Beaux-Arts in Genoa an…

Experimental Jetset

Experimental Jetset is a Dutch graphic design studio founded in Amsterdam in 1997 by Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers, and Danny van den Dungen, who are all gradua…

Félix Beltrán

Felix Beltrán (1938–2022) was a Cuban graphic designer, artist, and educator. He studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York. B…

Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger was a French artist whose work often blended fine art, graphic design, and visual communication through bold form and colour. Explore related d…

Fischer-Nosbisch

Fischer-Nosbisch was a studio founded by the husband-and-wife team of Fritz A. Fischer and Dorothea Nosbisch. Explore related designers including Günther Kie…

Flavio Constantini

Flavio Constantini, born in Rome in 1926, served as an officer in the Italian and merchant navies, travelling across Europe, the Middle East, and North America …

Fletcher/Forbes/Gill

Fletcher/Forbes/Gill was a pioneering British graphic design partnership formed in 1962 by Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, and Bob Gill. The studio worked on corpo…

Franciszek Starowieyski

Franciszek Starowieyski was born in Krakow in 1930 and began his studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. From 1956 he worked on posters and b…

Franco Grignani

Franco Grignani (1908-1999) was one of the twentieth century’s most important Italian graphic designers. He based his studio in Milan and collaborated with Stud…

Frank Stella

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker associated with minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

Frans Evenhuis

Frans Evenhuis was a Dutch designer known for his visual communication, work on posters and corporate identity. Explore related designers including Jurriaan …

František Fantyš

František Fantyš was a Czech graphic designer and typographic editor associated with Typografia magazine throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Explore r…

Fré Cohen

Fré Cohen was a Dutch graphic designer, illustrator, and typographer. Her clients included socialist publishers, trade unions, and municipal organisations. She …

Fred Troller

Fred Troller graduated from the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürichin 1950 and set up his own design studio until 1960. After that he spent six years working as the ar…

Frederick Henri Kay (FHK) Henrion

F. H. K. Henrion studied in Paris, as a textile designer, then exhibition, stage and graphic design. He early clients included Levant Fair, 1936, Paris Internat…

Freeman Craw

Freeman Craw was an American designer and art director known for his work in advertising, book design, and typography, creating typefaces such as Craw Clarendon…

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was a German abstract artist and designer associated with De Stijl and Concrete Art. His work often features geometric compositi…

Fritz Gottschalk

Fritz Gottschalk was born in Zurich in 1937 and is one of the two managers of the Gottschalk and Ash agency, which began its activity in Montreal in 1966 and ex…

George Giusti

George Giusti was of Italian and Swiss parentage and trained at the Reale Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. He worked as a designer in Lugano from 1928 to 1930 …

George Him

George Him was born in Poland in 1900 and attended the universities of Moscow, Berlin and Bonn (where, in 1924, he got his Ph.D. in the History of Religions). 1…

George Tscherny

George Tscherny (1924–2017) was a Hungarian-born American designer and emigrated to the U.S. after World War II. He studied under Alvin Lustig and became known …

George Vakirtzis

George Vakirtzis (born 1923) was a Greek designer and artist whose work spanned painting, poster design, and visual communication for cultural and tourism initi…

Georges Braque

Georges Braque studied at the Le Havre Art School and was apprenticed to his father, a house-painter in that town. In 1902 he attended the Paris Ecole des beaux…

Georges Lemoine

Georges Lemoine (born 1935) was a French illustrator and printmaker known for his refined and poetic approach to image-making, working primarily across book ill…

Gerald Cinamon

Gerald Cinamon (1930–2024) was a British-based book designer and typographer, originally from Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated at Yale and in Europe and m…

Gerard Kiljan

Gerard Kiljan was a designer recognised for his typo-photo works alongside Paul Schuitema and Piet Zwart. His work consisted of posters, stamps and product desi…

Gerard Miedinger

Gerard Miedinger was born in 1912 and he studied at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts and Ranson Academy, Paris. He was a well-established consultant for ind…

Gerd Arntz

Gerd Arntz (1900–1988) was a German graphic artist best known for his work with Otto Neurath on the ISOTYPE visual language system. Explore related designers…

Germano Facetti

Germano Facetti was born in Milan in 1925 and moved to England in 1950. As well as a graphic designer, he also designed furniture and toys. From 1960 - 1972 he …

Gert Dumbar

Gert Dumbar is a Dutch graphic designer known for experimental typography, branding, and studio-based practice. He founded Studio Dumbar in 1977. Explore rel…

Giancarlo Iliprandi

Giancarlo Iliprandi studied medicine before transferring to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, graduating in painting and stage design in 1955. Afte…

Giovanni Pintori

Giovanni Pintori (1912–1999) was an Italian graphic designer best known for his work for Olivetti, where he played a key role in shaping the company's visual id…

Gottfried Honegger

Gottfried Honegger was born in Zurich in 1917. Studied at the Kunstgenerbeschule in Zurich. Became a display manager. After marriage with Warja Honegger-Lavater…

Gottfried Honegger-Lavater

Gottfried Honegger and his wife Warja Honegger-Lavater. Explore related designers including Max Bill and Carlo Vivarelli. See also International Typographic …

Gottschalk+Ash

Gottschalk and Ash agency began its activity in Montreal in 1966 and extended it, three years later, to the Toronto area. The team also included Peter Steiner, …

Gregory Vines

Gregory Vines is an American graphic designer who studied at the Massachusetts College of Art under Muriel Cooper, then at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, wher…

Gunter Rambow

Gunter Rambow was born in 1938 in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg and studied at the Hadamar School of Glass Art and at the Kassel University of Visual Arts, where he …

Günther Kieser

Günther Kieser was a student at the Werkkunstschule, Offenbach, where he was trained in lithography and advertising art from 1947 to 1950. He joined Hans Michel…

Guy Georget

Guy Georget was a French illustrator and designer born in 1911. He lived and worked in Rotterdam and later, Amsterdam. He completed his studies at the Akademie …

György Kepes

György Kepes (1906–2001) was a Hungarian-born American artist, designer, and educator. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and worked with …

H.N. Werkman

Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman was a Dutch avant-garde printer and typographer known for his experimental letterpress compositions. Explore related designers inclu…

Hanns Lohrer

Hanns Lohrer (1911–1995) was a German graphic designer and lithographer known for his award-winning posters, book designs, and emblem work, specialising in exhi…

Hans + Ruth Albitz

Albitz and his wife Ruth designed many posters and brochures. Under the name Hans + Ruth Albitz they worked on advertising for Berlin's cultural institutions an…

Hans Erni

Hans Erni served an apprenticeship as a draughtsman in an architect's office, from 1924 until 1927. He later studied at the Kunst-gewerbeschule, Lucerne, from 1…

Hans Fabigan

Austrian Graphic Designer Explore related designers including Julius Klinger and Joseph Binder. See also Austrian graphic design history and 1920s graphic de…

Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer was born in 1909 in Bern and died in 1958 in Interlaken. Throughout his life, he illustrated 23 books, including Brentano's Gockel and Hinkel and G…

Hans Geipel

Explore related designers including Josef Müller-Brockmann and Karl Gerstner. See also Swiss International Style, German graphic design history, Brochures and G…

Hans Hartmann

Hans Hartmann was born in Switzerland in 1913. He began his career in the advertising department of the Bally Shoe Company before studying at the Kunstgewerbesc…

Hans Hillmann

Hans Hillmann studied in 1948 to 1949 at the Schule für Handwerk und Kunst in Kassel. Between 1949 and 1953 he attended the Werkakademie and remained in Kassel,…

Hans Michel

Hans Michel was a self-taught painter. After three years at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, he studied advertising art and was commissioned by 'Konstrukta' in…

Hans Neuburg

Hans Neuburg was born in 1904 in Czechoslovakia and became a Swiss citizen in 1954. In 1939 he set up a pavilion at the national exhibition in Zurich, and from …

Hans Peter Hoch

Hans Peter Hoch received his education at the Höhere Fachschule Grafische Gewerbe in Stuttgart in 1946, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft bildende Küms ler in Bernstein f…

Hans Schleger

Hans Schleger signed his work as Zéró. He studied in Berlin and for five years worked as freelance designer the United States. He later set up his own studio in…

Hans Schweiss

Hans Schweiss (born 1924) - German graphic designer whose work spans advertising, illustration, typography, and exhibition design, with a particular focus on ph…

Hans Unger

Hans Unger, originally from Germany and later a British citizen, studied poster design in Berlin before emigrating to South Africa, serving in WWII, and eventua…

Hans-Rudolf Lutz

Hans-Rudolf Lutz, a Swiss graphic designer, typographer, and teacher, known for experimental, self-published books and posters, and for his teaching at the Schu…

Hansjörg Mayer

Hansjörg Mayer was a German designer, typographer, and publisher born in Stuttgart in 1943. He studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and became known …

HAP Grieshaber

HAP Grieshaber was a German graphic artist and woodcut printmaker born in 1909. He was one of the most significant figures in German postwar printmaking, produc…

Hard Werken

Hard Werken was a Rotterdam-based design collective founded in 1979 by Gerard Hadders, Willem Kars, Rick Vermeulen, Henk Elenga, Tom van den Haspel, and Kees de…

Harry Boller

Harri Boller (born 1938) is a Swiss-born graphic designer known for his work in corporate identity, typography, and design systems, particularly in the United S…

Heinrich Fleischhacker

Heinrich Fleischhacker is an Austrian graphic designer and teacher who attended the Schule für Gestaltung Basel. He worked for Herman Miller and led the typogra…

Heinz Edelmann

Heinz Edelmann was born in 1934 and was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf in 1958, he worked…

Heinz Waibl

Heinz Waibl studied at the Licco Artistico and Politecnico in Milan. He founded a design studio called SIGNO in 1974 and was Max Huber's assistant from 1950-195…

Heiri Steiner

Heiri Steiner studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich and also in Berlin with Hadank. He began freelancing in 1930 and worked across exhibition design and t…

Helmut Lortz

Helmut Lortz was born in Darmstadt in 1920. First art-training was in sculpture (which included ivory carving). Later entered the offices of a printer. Lortz ha…

Helmut Salden

Helmut Salden trained at the Folkwangschule in Essen, later teaching photography there before moving across Europe. He settled in the Netherlands in 1938, worki…

Helmut Schmid

Helmut Schmid is an internationally renowned typographer, born in Austria and trained at AGS Basel under Emil Ruder. After working across Europe and Canada, he …

Henry Steiner

Henry Steiner (born 1934) is an Austrian-born graphic designer known for his pioneering work in corporate identity and visual communication in Hong Kong. Educat…

Henry Wolf

Henry Wolf was born in Vienna in 1925 and studied in France and New York. He studied design and photography with Alexey Brodovich and worked as an art director …

Henryk Tomaszewski

Henryk Tomaszewski was a Polish graphic artist best known for his poster designs He trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and graduated in …

Herb Lubalin

Herb Lubalin graduated from Cooper Union in 1939 and initially designed exhibits for the New York World's Fair. After freelancing and working as an art director…

Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer was born in Haag, Austria, in 1900 and joined the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921. He was later appointed to lead the printing and advertising workshop …

Herbert Bossin

Explore related designers including Karl Gerstner and Emil Ruder. See also Swiss International Style, Type Specimens, and 1960s graphic design history.

Herbert Leupin

Herbert Leupin was a Swiss poster designer who attended the School of Decorative Arts of Basel from 1932 to 1935, a year later he studied for one year in Paris …

Herbert Matter

Herbert Matter studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva from 1925 to 1927 and continued his education at the Académie Moderne in Paris under Ferna…

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was a professional designer and Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art in London, where he headed a study group engaged in research …

Herbert W. Kapitzki

Herbert W. Kapitzki was a German graphic designer, born in Danzig in 1925. He studied painting and graphics in Hamburg and Stuttgart, and worked independently i…

Hermann Kosel

Hermann Kosel studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, winning a gold medal at the age of seventeen in 1913. He began as a freelance muralist and…

Hermann Zapf

Hermann Zapf (1918–2015) was a German calligrapher and type designer whose typefaces, including Palatino, Optima and Zapfino, are among the most widely used of …

Hiromu Hara

Hiromu Hara, a graduate and former lecturer at Tokyo City College of Technology, co-founded a design studio that created photo-murals for major international ex…

Hiroshi Ohchi

Hiroshi Ohchi was a renowned Japanese author and designer with a diverse body of work including poster designs, packaging design, advertising, and cover designs…

Holger Matthies

Holger Matthies is a prominent German graphic designer, poster artist, photographer, and educator. His work featured on magazine covers such as Idea and Graphis…

Hubert Hilscher

Hubert Hilscher was a Polish graphic designer and poster artist active in the mid-twentieth century. He was a significant figure in Polish poster design of the …

Hugo Wetli

Hugo Wetli worked as a graphic designer, painter, book illustrator and mural artist, Before setting up his own studio in Switzerland in 1955, he worked at an an…

Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka was born in 1930 in Nara City. He graduated from the Kyoto School of Fine Arts in 1950 and worked for several companies, including the Osaka Economi…

Imre Reiner

Imre Reiner trained in Hungary as a sculptor. In 1920 he moved to Germany, where he studied graphic art under Ernst Schneidler at the Akademie für Bildende Kuns…

Irma Boom

Irma Boom is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer born in 1960 and widely regarded as one of the most influential book designers working today. Based in Ams…

Irving Harper

Irving Harper was an American designer who worked for George Nelson Associates in New York from 1947 to 1963, where he was responsible for some of the most cele…

Isolde Baumgart

Isolde Baumgart was a German graphic designer active in the 1950s and 60s. She produced poster and printed matter work for cultural and commercial clients, cont…

Ivan Chermayeff

Ivan Chermayeff, born in London in 1932, held numerous prestigious positions throughout his career. He served as president of the AIGA and was a member of both …

Jack Stauffacher

Jack Werner Stauffacher was an American printer, typographer, educator, and publisher of finely crafted books. He founded and operated the Greenwood Press, a sm…

Jack Wolfgang Beck

Jack Wolfgang Beck was born in the USA in 1923 and was mainly a self-taught designer.  In 1950 he set up his own design studio in New York  where he designed re…

Jacqueline Casey

Jacqueline Casey (1927–1992) was an American graphic designer who spent most of her career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she served as dir…

Jacques Dubois

Jacques Dubois was a French designer born in 1912. He attended classes delivered by Cassandre and was an assistant to Jean Carlu. His clients included Air Franc…

Jacques Nathan-Garamond

Jacques Nathan-Garamond was born in Paris in 1910 and attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. He designed posters, corporate brand…

Jacques Richez

Jacques Richez studied at the Académie Royale des beaux-arts in Mons and, after completing his studies, joined a design studio in Brussels. During the war he en…

Jacqui Morgan

Jacqui Morgan (born in Manhattan, 22 February 1941) is an American illustrator known for her editorial and commercial work across magazines and newspapers. She …

James Marsh

James Marsh (born 27 July 1946) is a British illustrator and artist. He studied at the Bath Academy of Art and later the National Diploma in Design, beginning h…

James McMullan

James McMullan (born in Tsingtao, China, 14 June 1934) is an American illustrator and designer. He studied at Pratt Institute and worked at Push Pin Studios fro…

Jan Bons

Jan Bons studied painting and advertising art at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague from 1936 to 1937, and then continued his studies for a year a…

Jan Lenica

Jan Lenica was born in Posen in 1928 and studied architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic and then worked on the design and creation of environments for exhibitio…

Jan Młodożeniec

Jan Młodożeniec, born in 1929 in Warsaw, studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1953, graduating in 1955. He began designing posters and illust…

Jan Rajlich

Jan Rajlich worked as a graphic designer and painter in Brno. his poster designs won many awards and are featured in numerous museum collections. He was a teach…

Jan Slothouber

Jan Slothouber was a Dutch designer and architect who collaborated extensively with William Graatsma on modular design projects. Their best known work is the Cu…

Jan Tschichold

Jan Tschichold was a German typographer, writer, and book designer born in Leipzig in 1902. He believed that design should emulate the dynamism and movement of …

Jan van Toorn

Jan van Toorn was born in 1932 and was one of Holland's most influential designers. He worked across photomontage, type design and image juxtapositioning. Ex…

János Kass

János Kass studied ceramics and graphic arts in Budapest, earning his diploma in 1951 and working as an illustrator and advertising designer for publishers and …

Jayme Odgers

Jayme Odgers is a designer, artist and photographer. He is best known for his new wave design and experimental collage photography of the 1980s. He graduated fr…

Jean Alessandrini

Jean Antoine Alessandrini (born 1942) - French illustrator, designer, and typographer known for his distinctive integration of image and text across editorial a…

Jean Arp (Hans Arp)

Jean Arp (Hans Arp) worked as a sculptor, painter and poet. He was an abstract artist, as well as being heavily involved in the Dadaist movement. Explore rel…

Jean Carlu

Jean Carlu originally trained to be an architect and began working in France as a graphic designer after World War I.  He was one of the first designers to use …

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau was educated at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He was an extremely versatile artist-poet, writer, film director, critic, actor and choreographer. In…

Jean Colin

Jean Colin was a French graphic designer. Born in Paris, he created numerous posters for French and foreign clients and received the Prix de l'Académie de l'aff…

Jean David

Jean David began painting at fifteen, studied in Paris, and after escaping Nazi-occupied Romania, joined the British Royal Navy before settling in Israel, where…

Jean Larcher

Jean Larcher is a letterform designer. To his credit are over 54 individually created alphabets; his proclaimed specialties are logotypes and calligraphy.

Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurçat went to Paris to learn typography and engraving under Bernard Naudin. Towards the end of the war, he created his first tapestry, which was followed …

Jean Michel Folon

Jean Michel Folon was born in 1934 in Belgium and later worked in France. His work was featured in Horizon, Esquire, The New Yorker, Fortune and Time and he des…

Jean Picart Le Doux

Jean Picart Le Doux was born in Paris on 31 January 1902. He was a founding member of the AGI and the first AGI President. He designed a lot of publicity for th…

Jean Widmer

Jean Widmer (1929–2021) was a Swiss-born French graphic designer known for his systematic, rigorous approach to visual identity and wayfinding. He studied at th…

Jens Müller

Jens Müller is a German graphic designer, author, and publisher known for his work documenting the history of graphic design. He is the author of several major …

Jiří Rathouský

Jiří Rathouský studied pedagogics at the Charles University in Prague. In 1943 he started to work on various periodicals as an illustrator and designer. He also…

Jock Kinneir

Jock Kinneir was a British graphic designer best known for his long partnership with Margaret Calvert, with whom he designed the UK's motorway and road sign sys…

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter, designer, teacher, and theorist best known for his influential role at the Bauhaus school. He later served as director of th…

John Hanna

John Hanna was a British graphic designer and illustrator. His work was featured in and on book jackets, posters and magazine advertisements. A very playful ill…

John Heartfield

John Heartfield's original name was Herzfelde studied painting for a year under Bouffier. In 1910 he went to Munich where he was greatly influenced by the poste…

John Sewell

John Sewell began his art training after serving in the Royal Air Force, studying painting and graphic design at Hornsey and the Royal College of Art, where he …

Jolijn van de Wouw

Dutch designer and educator known for contemporary editorial design and type-led visual communication. Explore related designers including Karel Martens and …

Jonathan Barnbrook

Jonathan Barnbrook was born in 1966, Luton, UK.  He graduated in 1990 from Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art and works across activism, …

Josef Albers

Josef Albers was an American-German artist and educator known for his geometric coloured paintings and his teachings and writing on colour theory. He studied at…

Jósef Mroszczak

Jósef Mroszczak was a Polish graphic designer born in 1910. He was the founder of the Warsaw Poster Biennale and a professor at the Warsaw Academy. Mroszczak ex…

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Josef Müller-Brockmann was born in 1914 and began his professional career in 1936, after two years of graphic apprenticeship in Zurich and two years of advanced…

Joseph Binder

Joseph Binder was an Austrian graphic designer, known for his poster designs. His clients included the New York World’s Fair, the U.S. Army Air Corps and the Am…

Joseph Low

Joseph Low was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, in 1911. He died in 2000. He studied at the Art Students League with George Grosz and was self-taught in typogr…

Josje Pollmann

Josje Pollmann was a Dutch graphic designer who studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She worked in the tradition of Dutch modernism, producing posters,…

Jost Hochuli

Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and designer known for his influential writing and work on typography, book design, and visual systems. Explore related d…

Juan Carlos Distéfano

Juan Carlos Distéfano studied at the Escuela Industrial de Artes Gráficas and Academia de Bellas Artes (1951–54), later continuing his studies in Italy. From 19…

Julius Klinger

Julius Klinger was an Austrian artist, best known for his work as a poster designer.  He was born in 1876 and studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum in Vi…

Jurriaan Schrofer

Jurriaan Willem Schrofer was a graphic designer and type designer. He worked as an assistant of Dick Elffers and then as designer for Drukkerij Meijer, a printe…

Karel Martens

Karel Martens is one of the most influential Dutch graphic designers. He is a co-founder of the Werkplaats Typografie and works across designing and teaching. H…

Karel Martens & Aagje Martens

Explore related designers including Karel Martens and Wim Crouwel. See also Dutch Modernism, Dutch graphic design history, Books.

Karel Teige

Karel Teige (1900–1951) was a Czech graphic designer, typographer, theorist, and critic. One of the most significant figures in Central European avant-garde cul…

Karl Gerstner

Karl Gerstner worked across graphic design, typography and photography. He worked in the art department of Geigy and carried out all the graphic design work con…

Karl Oskar Blase

Karl Oskar Blase was born in 1925 in Cologne, Germany. He was a prolific painter, designer, sculptor and exhibition curator. His work included magazine covers, …

Karl Schulpig

Karl Schulpig was a German artist and designer, known especially for his woodcut illustrations and trademark designs. He is considered one of the fathers of mod…

Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich was a Russian avant-garde painter and the founder of Suprematism, best known for radically reductive geometric paintings.

Kazumasa Nagai

Kazumasa Nagai was born in 1929 in Osaka. He left the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1951 and co-founded the Nippon Design Center in 1960. …

Ken Briggs

Ken Briggs was born in 1931 in Derbyshire, studied at Chesterfield School of Arts & Crafts and later at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London, a…

Ken Garland

Ken Garland studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst a…

Kenji Itoh

Kenji Ito (also spelled Kenji Itoh, 伊藤憲治, 1915–2001) was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer whose work spanned over six decades and helped shape the visual …

Kenya Hara

Kenya Hara is a Japanese graphic designer born in 1958. He is known for his concept of emptiness — or Ma — as a design principle. He studied at Musashino Art Un…

Kiyoshi Awazu

Kiyoshi Awazu was born in Tokyo in 1929 and was largely self-taught as a designer. He established himself in the 1950s and 1960s as one of the most distinctive …

Kohei Sugiura

Kohei Sugiura’s work spans an impressive range of mediums, including record jackets, publication covers, posters, exhibition catalogues, and stamps. He perfectl…

Koichi Sato

Koichi Sato is a Japanese graphic designer known for expressive typography, poster design, and influential contributions to contemporary Japanese visual culture…

Kuniomi Uematsu

Kuniomi Uematsu studied architecture in Tokyo, graduating in 1947, before joining Isetan Department Store. From 1956 to 1959 he worked at Takashimaya Department…

Kurt Hauert

Kurt Hauert was born in 1924 in Aarau, Switzerland and was a graphic designer, educator, and visual artist. His career spanned multiple decades, with output in …

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters was a German artist, designer, and writer known for his work within the Dadaism movement and his collage work. He produced paintings, collages, …

Kurt Weidemann

Kurt Weidemann graduated in book graphics and typography at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He worked as a graphic designer, advertising consultant…

Kurt Wirth

Kurt Wirth was born in Bern in 1917 and studied graphics from 1933 to 1936. He  opened his illustration studio in 1937, working with newspapers and magazines. H…

Ladislav Sutnar

Ladislav Sutnar was born in Czechoslovakia and was a pioneer of information design. He worked in America after the war and combined the avant-garde visual langu…

Lance Wyman

Lance Wyman was born in New Jersey in 1937 and studied industrial design at Pratt Institute. He came to international attention after winning the competition to…

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian photograph and painter. He was a teacher at the Bauhaus school and believed in integrating technology and industry in the art…

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (1887–1965), born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland, was a French architect and a key figure in modern architecture. He championed the Inter…

Lella Vignelli

Lella Vignelli was an Italian-American architect and designer who, with her husband Massimo Vignelli, co-founded Vignelli Associates and was a founding partner …

Leo Lionni

Leo Lionni earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Genoa in 1935 but was a self-taught designer. While pursuing his studies, he was involved in bot…

Leo Longanesi

Leo Longanesi was born in Italy in 1905. He was a painter, graphic designer, writer and publisher. In 1927, he founded (with Mino Maccari) a two-weekly magazine…

Les Mason

Les Mason studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before moving to Australia in 1961. He founded Les Mason Graphic Design in South Melbourne in 19…

Lester Beall

Lester Beall studied art history at the University of Chicago and worked as a freelance graphic designer in Chicago from 1927 to 1935 for clients like Mills Nov…

Lora Lamm

Lora Lamm was a Swiss graphic designer born in 1928 and best known for her work in Milan from 1953 to 1963, where she designed packaging, posters, and invitatio…

Lou Klein

Lou Klein graduated from the Cooper Union and Yale University School of Art and Architecture. He worked as the art director of Interiors Magazine and Time Inter…

Louis Danziger

Louis Danziger studied at the Art Center School, Los Angeles, under Alvin Lustig in 1947 , and in 1948 at the New School, New York, under Alexey Brodovitch. At …

Louis Dorfsman

Louis Dorfsman graduated from Cooper Union Art School and designed exhibits for the 1939 New York World Fair. During World War II, he worked on navy training fi…

Lucian Bernhard

Lucian Bernhard was a designer of posters, trade marks, packages, emblems and printing ornaments and later type design. In 1920, he was appointed the first Prof…

Ludwig Hohlwein

Ludwig Hohlwein was one of the most important German poster designers of the early twentieth century and a key figure in the Sachplakat/object poster movement, …

Maciej Urbaniec

Maciej Urbaniec was born in 1925 in Zwierzyniec and graduated in 1958 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He specialised in poster design and participated …

Makoto Saito

Makoto Saito is a Japanese graphic designer born in 1952 in Tokyo. He studied at Kuwasawa Design School and founded his studio in 1980. He is known for his expr…

Marcel Vertès

Marcel Vertès went to evening classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and continued his studies at the Académie Julian. In 1939-40, then went to the USA…

Marian Stachurski

Marian Stachurski studied under Henryk Tomaszewski at the Academy of Arts in Warsaw, specialising in posters and graphic design. While still a student, he worke…

Mark Handel

Mark Handel was a California native and Yale graduate whose bi-coastal perspective shaped much of his work. He was the art director at Adix, a New York fashion …

Marshall Arisman

Marshall Arisman (born in New York, 14 October 1938) is an American illustrator and educator. He studied at Pratt Institute and, after graduating in 1960, worke…

Mart Kempers

Mart Kempers studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Amsterdam during WWII and later worked at the Amsterdam Typefoundry, designing promotional materials. F…

Massimo Vignelli

Massimo Vignelli was born in Milan in 1931 and studied at the Brera Academy and after at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Venice. From 1965 to 1…

Matthew Leibowitz

Matthew Leibowitz studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, attending evening classes from 1936 to 1939. After serving as art director for th…

Max Bill

Max Bill studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich from 1924 until 1927. He visited Paris in 1925 and was inspired by the work of Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann…

Max Caflisch

Max Caflisch was a Swiss typographer and book designer who trained under Jan Tschichold and Imre Reiner, later serving as art director at Benteli AG and consult…

Max Huber

Max Huber was born in 1919 in Switzerland. He worked across advertising, packaging, design and industrial design. He had a distinctive style that skillfully ble…

Max Hunziker

Max Hunziker was born in 1901 in Züruch and worked in France and Italy, later returning to Zürich in 1939. He worked across book illustration, commercial art an…

Max Velthuijs

Max Velthuijs was a Dutch illustrator and designer, born in 1923 in The Hague. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and worked as a graphic desig…

Michael Engelmann

Michael Engelmann was a self-taught designer. He was born in Czechoslovakia and in 1941 he went to the United States where he took various odd jobs before he wa…

Michael Vanderbyl

Michael Vanderbyl is a multidisciplinary designer and educator based in San Francisco and the founder of the agency, Vanderbyl Design. Vanderbyl Design work acr…

Michael Wolgensinger

Michael Wolgensinger was born in Zurich in 1915. He studied photography at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. After he opened his own studio in Zurich, and soon …

michel + kieser

Hans Michel and Gunther Kieser had their own studio from 1953, Michel + Kieser. They have designed many jazz concert programmes as well as publicity material fo…

Michele Spera

Michele Spera studied architecture at Rome University from 1957 to 1963, winning a scholarship in graphic design in 1961. He was one of the first visual designe…

Milner Gray

Milner Gray was born in 1899. He was one of the founded members of the Society of Industrial Designers and Artists and the Industrial Design Partnership. His wo…

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser studied at the Cooper Union Art School in New York. He was a founding member of Push Pin Studios, a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts an…

Mitsuo Katsui

Katsui Mitsuo was born in Tokyo in 1931 and graduated from Tokyo Education University in 1955. In 1956, he joined Ajinomoto Co., Ltd., but began working as a fr…

Negus/Sharland

Negus/Sharland was the collaborative studio of Richard Charles Negus (1927–2011) and Philip Sharland (1923-1986). They were a British design studio who work wit…

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is an internationally recognised art director and brand strategist. He was the creative director of Face magazine and worked with many record labe…

Newman Neame Limited

Newman Neame Limited was a British design and publishing firm known for producing books, advertisements, and corporate publications. The company collaborated wi…

Niklaus Troxler

Niklaus Troxler is a Swiss graphic designer celebrated for expressive poster design, experimental typography, and influential work in jazz and the cultural sect…

Noel Martin

Noel Martin was born in Ohio in 1922. He died in 2015. He studied Fine Arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and was self-taught as a typographer and designer. …

Norman Ives

Norman Ives was a graphic designer, educator, and publisher. He taught at Yale, teaching the meaning and understanding of symbols. His clients included the Muse…

O. H. W. Hadank

Hadank is best known for his packaging design of Haus Neubueg. He designed typefaces and was a fantastic woodcut and engraving artist. He also designed the Horc…

Oded Ezer

Oded Ezer is an Israeli graphic designer known for experimental typography and expressive typographic systems. Explore related designers working in experimen…

Odermatt & Tissi

Odermatt & Tissi was a Zurich-based graphic design studio founded by Siegfried Odermatt and Rosmarie Tissi in 1968. Working outside the strict grid-based wo…

Oldřich Hlavsa

Oldřich Hlavsa worked primarily in publication design and typography and played a major part in Czech graphic design history. He designed over 2000 book covers …

Olle Eksell

Olle Eksell is well known for his advertising illustration, book jackets and playful packaging design. He first studied engineering and later decided to become …

Ootje Oxenaar

Robert Deddaat Emile ‘Ootje’ Oxenaar was born in 1929 in The Hague. His most recognised design work was his commission from De Nederlandsche Bank, where he desi…

Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, choreographer, and designer known for his abstract  paintings of human form as well as for his avant-garde balle…

Otl Aicher

Otl Aicher studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich before returning to Ulm. Here, he had his graphic art studio from 1948 to 1955. He was co-foun…

Otto Arpke

Otto Arpke was a German graphic designer, illustrator, and painter, best known for his posters and commercial artwork. He created designs for exhibitions and ma…

Otto Baumberger

Otto Baumberger began his career with a lithography apprenticeship in Zurich, followed by studies in Munich, Paris, and London. After World War I, he shifted fo…

Otto Neurath

Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882–December 22, 1945). Neurath is best known for his work on creating the visual language Isotype. (International System of Typogra…

Otto Rohse

Otto Rohse was an illustrator, typographer, and book designer. He was born on July 8, 1925, in Insterburg in East Prussia. In 1962, he set up Otto Rohse Presse,…

Otto Treumann

Otto Treumann was born in Fürth, Germany, in 1919 and moved to Amsterdam in 1935. He began his freelance graphic design career after the war (1945-46). He parti…

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso began painting as a child and had his first exhibition at sixteen, later pioneering Cubism with works like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Throughout h…

Páez Torres

Armando Paéz Torres - Graphic Designer - Argentina Explore related designers working in Latin American graphic design. See also Argentine graphic design his…

Paolo Guidotti

Paolo Guidotti studied at the Istituto d'Arte in Florence. From 1965 to 1970 he worked for the publisher Mondadori in Milan, returning later to design book jack…

PAOS

PAOS (Progressive Artists Open System) are a Japanese design studio. Motoo Nakanishi founded them and they became recognised as on of Japan's leading agencies s…

Pat Keely

Pat Keely was a self-taught designer, mainly working across advertising and poster design. His clients included the Ministry of Information, the Post Office, Lo…

Patrick Wallis Burke

Patrick Wallis Burke (1928–2020) was a British designer, educator, editor, and writer known for his wide-ranging contributions to design education and publishin…

Paul Ibou

Paul Ibou (1939–2023), born Paul Vermeersch, was a Belgian graphic designer and sculptor. He is best known for his logo designs (he designed over 350) and calen…

Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Swiss-German painter closely associated with the Bauhaus, where he taught from 1921 to 1931.

Paul Mijksenaar

Paul Mijksenaar is a Dutch information designer born in 1944. He is known for his work in wayfinding and signage systems, particularly his work for airports and…

Paul Rand

Paul Rand is one of the most famous American graphic designers. He studied in the 1930s at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and the Art Students Leagu…

Paul Renner

Paul Renner (1878–1956) was a German type designer, graphic designer, and educator best known as the creator of Futura, released in 1927. He studied painting in…

Paul Schuitema

Paul Schuitema was a Dutch designer and artist and was a member of the Circle of New Designers, a group that included Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, and Jan Tschic…

Paul Sollberger

Paul Sollberger was born in Switzerland in 1913. He worked as an apprentice at a big graphic studio. Sollberger studied at the Applied Arts School in Vienna fro…

Paula Scher

Paula Scher is an American graphic designer and educator. She served as the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991. Scher began her caree…

Pentagram

Pentagram is one of the world’s leading independent design studios. It was founded in 1972, by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, and Mer…

Peter Max

Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein) is a German-born artist known for his vibrant, psychedelic prints. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, his family settled…

Peter Megert

Peter Megert was born in Switzerland and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Serne. He later continued his education at The Ohio State University, focusing on …

Peter Saville

Peter Saville is one of the UK's most famous graphic designers.  He is best known for his record cover designs for Joy Division, Pulp, Suede and New Order. Savi…

Peter Wildbur

Peter Wildbur (1935–2004) was a British graphic designer and educator specialising in information design, wayfinding, and symbol systems. He worked extensively …

Philippe Apeloig

Philippe Apeloig is a French graphic designer known for typographic work and graphic design for the cultural sector. Explore related designers including Jean…

Philippe Delessert

Philippe Delessert was born in Switzerland in 1933. He studied jewellery design in Geneva and Paris before moving into graphic design. He then returned to Switz…

Piero Fornasetti

Piero Fornasetti studied art in Milan before teaching himself engraving and expanding into sculpture, murals, and design, debuting his work at the 1939 Milan Tr…

Pierre Bernard

Pierre Bernard was a French graphic designer and co-founder of Grapus, known for politically engaged graphic design. Bernard was also a member of the Alliance G…

Pierre Fix-Masseau

Pierre Fix-Masseau was a French poster designer and illustrator, born in 1905. He is best known for his travel and railway posters produced from the 1930s onwar…

Pierre Gauchat

Pierre Gauchat was a Swiss designer who designed banknotes, posters and illustrations. Explore related designers including Donald Brun and Herbert Leupin. Se…

Pierre Mendell

Pierre Mendell was a German graphic designer born in 1929. He became known for his poster work for cultural institutions, especially the Munich Kammerspiele and…

Pierre Monnerat

Pierre Monnerat was a Swiss designer working across book design, illustration and print design. He worked a lot with local causes and often illustrated. His des…

Piet Zwart

Piet Zwart was a Dutch designer, photographer, and typographer and was heavily influenced by Russian Constructivism and the Dutch De Stijl movement. After study…

Pieter Brattinga

Pieter Brattinga was a Dutch author, designer and educator. From 1951-74 He was the design director of Steendrukkerik De Jong, Hilversum and editor and publishe…

Pino Tovaglia

Pino Tovaglia was born in Milan. He was art director at Pirelli, of the Pirelli Magazine and the Rai Magazine. He taught graphic design at the Scuola Superiore …

R. O. Blechman

R. O. Blechman (born 1930) is an American illustrator, animator, and designer known for his distinctive line-based drawing style and work across editorial, adve…

Ralph Schraivogel

Ralph Schraivogel is a Swiss graphic designer born in 1960, based in Zurich. He studied at the Schule für Gestaltung Zurich and has worked primarily in cultural…

Rambow + Lienemeyer

Gunter Rambow (born 1938), Gerhard Lienemeyer (born 1936), and Michael van de Sand (born 1945) formed a German design collaboration known for their influential …

Raymond Savignac

Raymond Savignac was born in 1907 and was a prolific poster designer. Savignac became Cassandre's assistant in 1935. He designed over 600 posters for clients su…

Reid Miles

Reid Miles was an American graphic designer best known as art director for Blue Note Records through the late 1950s and 1960s, where he defined the label's jazz…

Rémy Peignot

Rémy Peignot is best known for his typographic work he produced whilst working for Deberny & Peignot, Paris. He was also the art director for 'En Direct' ma…

Renato Guttuso

Renato Guttuso, a Sicilian painter, gained early recognition in Milan and settled in Rome in 1937, holding notable exhibitions throughout Italy during and after…

Riccardo Manzi

Riccardo Manzi trained in Naples and began his career in newspaper illustration. He later went into painting and advertising. He exhibited widely in Italy and a…

Richard Hess

Richard Cletus Hess was an American illustrator and art director. He studied at Michigan State University and worked in advertising before establishing his own …

Richard Paul Lohse

Richard Paul Lohse was a Swiss painter and graphic designer and one of the main artists related to the concrete and constructive art movements. Explore relat…

Robert (Bob) Salpeter

Bob Salpeter was trained by Paul Rand at IBM and educated in New York, at the School of Visual Arts and the School of Industrial Art. Salpeter went on to build …

Robert Giusti

Robert Giusti (born in Zurich, 30 November 1937) is a Swiss-born American illustrator and designer. He studied at the Tyler School of Fine Arts and worked in ad…

Robert Massin

Robert Massin was born in 1925 and was a typographer and book designer. For a longtime Massin was an art director the French publisher, Gallimard. Before that r…

Rod Clark

Rod Clark was the designer of the British magazine, Underground. His work reflected an era of deconstructing design and experimentation. Explore related des…

Roger Excoffon

Roger Excoffon was a typographer and type designer. Excoffon created several typefaces, Banco, 1948, Mistral, 1952, and Nord, 1958-59. He was the art director o…

Roland Topor

Roland Topor (1938–1997) was a French illustrator, writer, and filmmaker known for his distinctive surreal and often darkly humorous drawings. Born in Paris to …

Rolf Müller

Rolf Müller was born in Dortmund in 1940 and studied at the University of Design of Ulm, from 1960 to 1963. He worked with Josef Müller-Brockmann, Zürich from 1…

Roman Cieślewicz

Roman Cieślewicz was born in 1930 in Lwow, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1955, the following year he moved to Warsaw and worked for v…

Rómulo Macció

Rómulo Macció trained to be a graphic designer at various agencies and was also a painter. Explore related designers working in South American visual culture…

Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle was born in 1920 in Cambridge, England. He produced illustrations for the New Yorker and Punch magazine and many books. He also designed medals, f…

Roslaw Szaybo

Rosław Szaybo (1941–2019) was a Polish graphic designer and art director known for his bold, expressive poster work and his influential tenure as art director a…

Rosmarie Tissi

Rosmarie Tissi was born in Schaffhausen and attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. From 1968, with Siegfried Odermatt, she founded the Zurich graphic studio…

Rostislav Vaněk

Rostislav Vaněk (born 1945) is a Czech graphic designer whose work spans posters, book design, exhibition graphics, and audiovisual communication. Educated in P…

Roy Carruthers

Roy Carruthers (born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 14 December 1938) was an illustrator and art director. He studied at Port Elizabeth Technical College and …

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was an American painter and a leading figure of Pop Art, known for large-scale paintings that appropriated the visual language of comic strips.

Rubén Fontana

Rubén Fontana studied in Buenos Aires and was graphic designer for agencies. From 1966-70 he worked for the Torcuato Di Tella Institute designing posters in com…

Rudolf Franke

Rudolf Franke was a German graphic designer best known for his cover design work for Form und Technik, the German trade journal for the printing, paper, and pac…

Rudolph de Harak

Rudolph de Harak ran his own design studio in New York, where he worked across design disciplines including the design of  trademarks, posters, brochures, book,…

Ruedi Rüegg

Ruedi Rüegg (born in Zurich, 4 August 1936) is a Swiss graphic designer. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and worked with Josef Müller-Brockmann, …

Ryohei Kojima

Born in 1939 in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, Ryohei Kojima graduated from Asagaya Art School in 1959 and Musashino Art Junior College in 1961. He initially …

Ryuichi Yamashiro

Ryuichi Yamashiro (1920–1992) was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer and modernist, inspired by Bauhaus principles and artists like Joan Miró. He co-founded…

S. Neil Fujita

S. Neil Fujita (1921–2010) was a Japanese-American graphic designer and art director known for his influential album cover designs for Columbia Records, covers …

Saul Bass

Saul Bass studied at the Art Students League with Howard Trafton and at Brooklyn College under Gyorgy Kepes. After freelancing as a designer and art director in…

Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg is an American illustrator and artist known for his work for The New Yorker. He blends drawing, wit, and visual commentary. Explore related de…

Sebastião Rodrigues

Sebastião Rodrigues, a self-taught designer, began his career in 1947 and became a key figure in Portuguese graphic design. From 1954 onward, he worked on major…

Seymour Chwast

Seymour Chwast lives and works in New York, where he was born in 1931 and studied graphic design and illustration techniques at the Cooper Union Art School in N…

Shichiro Imatake

Shichiro Imatake was a Japanese designer, born in 1905. Before working as a designer, he worked across literature, film and music. He designed for the Kobe Daum…

Shigeo Fukuda

Shigeo Fukuda was born in Tokyo in 1932 and graduated from the Department of Design at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1956. He has served a…

Shin Matsunaga

Shin Matsunaga was born in Tokyo in 1940. He graduated from the Department of Design at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1964. In 1971, a…

Siegfried Odermatt

Siegfried Odermatt was a self-taught designer.  Born in 1926. He ran his independent studio in Zurich from 1950 to 1968, when he joined forces with Rosmarie Tis…

Spin

Spin is a London-based graphic design studio founded by Tony Brook and Patricia Finegan in 1992. Their work spans identity, print, art direction, and publishing…

Stefan Kanchev

Stefan Kanchev was a Bulgarian graphic designer born in 1915. He is regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Bulgarian graphic design, producing poster…

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer and typographer born in Bregenz in 1962. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Pratt …

Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin (1939–2012) was an American-born British artist, filmmaker, and designer. He studied at Parsons School of Design in New York before moving to Lo…

Stig Lindberg

One of Sweden's most important postwar designers, Stig Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gus…

Studio Dumbar

Studio Dumbar was founded by the Dutch designer Gert Dumbar in 1977, in The Hague. During 2003, the studio moved to Rotterdam and Michel de Boer took over the c…

Swip Stolk

Swip Stolk, Dutch graphic designer known for record sleeve design, poster work, and cultural sector projects in the Netherlands, working across music and instit…

Tadanori Yokoo

‘Tadanori Yokoo was born in 1936 in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan and in 1969 received the grand prix in the print category at the 6th Youth Biennial …

Tadashi Ohashi

Tadashi Ohashi trained at the Tokyo College of Art and Technology and began his career in department store and advertising design before becoming a freelance de…

Tadeusz Jodłowski

Tadeusz Jodłowski studied at the Academy of Arts in Cracow and later taught at the Academy in Warsaw until 1960. Since 1954, his posters have been widely exhibi…

Takahisa Kamijō

Takahisa Kamijo is a Japanese graphic designer associated with postwar modern design in Japan. After studying at the University of Arts in Tokyo, he worked in a…

Takashi Kono

Takashi Kono was a Japanese graphic designer, who also designed mosaics, textiles, costumes and stage sets. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts and wor…

Takenobu Igarashi

Takenobu Igarashi was born in Tokyo in 1944 and is best known for his three-dimensional typographic sculptures, letterforms and blending graphic design and arch…