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April Greiman, American Designer

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April Greiman, American Designer

Issue: 15
The designer who turned the Macintosh into an art form.

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Born: 1948
Nationality: American

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, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Basel School of Design in Switzerland, where she was influenced by the New Wave movement led by Wolfgang Weingart. Greiman later moved to Los Angeles in 1976, where she founded the multidisciplinary studio, Made in Space. She was one of the first designers to adopt computer technology and integrate it in her work.

Explore related designers including Wolfgang Weingart and Tibor Kalman. See also New Wave Typography, American graphic design history, and 1980s graphic design history.

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Idea 179, 1983-7. Cover design by April Greiman
Art Direction, Magazine of Visual Communication, 353, July 1978. Cover design by April Greiman and Raul Vega
Progressive Architecture, September 1981. Cover design by April Greiman
Wet Magazine, Vol 4 Issue 2, 1979. Designed by April Greiman
Identity design by April Greiman. Scanned from Idea 179, 1983-7
Architectural Resistance - Contemporary Architects Face Schindler Today, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004. Book designed by April Greiman

More info about April Greiman

April Greiman

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, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Basel School of Design in Switzerland, where she was influenced by the New Wave movement led by Wolfgang Weingart. Greiman later moved to Los Angeles in 1976, where she founded the multidisciplinary studio, Made in Space. She was one of the first designers to adopt computer technology and integrate it in her work.

Explore related designers including Wolfgang Weingart and Tibor Kalman. See also New Wave Typography, American graphic design history, and 1980s graphic design history.

More info about April Greiman

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