“In 1960 I graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a degree in Industrial Design. At that time graphic design was a European influence that was just being introduced in American universities at the graduate level. When I met a student who studied logo design with Paul Rand at Yale, I knew I…
Ken Cato is an Australian graphic designer with an international reputation. Ken Cato’s prolific work encompasses all methods of corporate and brand management and design. He maintains a philosophy of design which is completely holistic and which provides the type of solutions which will always produce positive results. He has won many international design awards…
Jacob Cass was born in Queensland Australia in 1987. At the age of three he moved to Sydney Australia. By the time he reached the age of twelve he was getting involved with putting together his own website on the internet. At the age of fifteen he began studying design at high school. He got…
A well-known famous designer, Chermayeff Celebrating 50 years of working with partner Tom Geismar, Chermayeff noted that in the early days, when people would ask him what he did at parties he used to tell them he was a commercial artist: “they didn’t know what that was but they left you alone, which was good.”…
‘Coming to terms with Lubalin’s work takes you quickly to the heart of a very big subject: the theory of meaning and how meaning is communicated – how an idea is moved – full and resonant, from one mind to another. Not many have been able to do that better than Lubalin.’ (AIGA 1980) Herb…
Brian Tattersfield is a designer and co-founder of the international design agency, Minale Tattersfield, well known for the brand name of Harrods. Brian Tattersfield was born in Yorkshire in 12/4/1936. He trained originally as a painter and illustrator before studying graphic design at the Royal College of Art under Bob Gill in London. After qualifying…
Armin Hofmann was a pivotal figure in mid twentieth century graphic design and his work was to exert a significant influence on design internationally. As a designer, teacher and author, Hofmann has devoted his professional life to bringing an original artistic integrity to graphic design. Armin Hofmann, Awesome Graphic Designer “As a human being he…
Anton Stankowski was a German graphic designer, photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. Typical Stankowski designs attempt to illustrate processes or behaviours rather than objects. Such experiments resulted in the use of fractal-like structures long before their popularisation by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975. Anton Stankowski –…
Alan Fletcher was one of the most influential graphic design figures in post-war British graphic design. His clever mix of intellectual English tradition with the pop culture of the United States developed his distinctive approach in the late 1950s and 1960s. His obituary in the Daily Telegraph was to call him; ‘…the most highly regarded…