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William Morris

William Morris was a leading member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He is best known for his pattern designs, particularly on fabrics and wallpapers. He was also famous for his literary input as an English novelist, poet and a translator. His literary works were instrumental in the introduction of modern fantasy genre in literature.

Paul Rand

Born in Brooklyn in 1914, Rand attended art school in New York City at both Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Rand began his career designing covers for Direction magazine.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass moved to LA in his mid-twenties to pursue a career in Graphic Design. Bass also designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in North America, including the original AT&T “bell” logo in 1969, as well as their later “globe” logo in 1983.

Herb Lubalin

Herbert F. Lubalin was an American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications.Lubalin worked as an Art Director for most of his career (designing for Eros, Fact, Avant Guarde and U&Lc) he was named Art Director of the Year in 1962 by the National Society of Art Directors.

George Lois

George Lois is a prolific advertiser and Art Director. George Lois is an American art director, designer, and author. Lois is perhaps best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine from 1962 to 1972. In 2008, The Museum of Modern Art exhibited 32 of Lois' Esquire covers.

Bradbury Thompson

He worked for 60 years in NYC, for companies like Rogers, Kellog and Stillson, the magazine Mademoiselle and the West and Co. instead of making perfect imitation of previous works, the designer must demonstrate the understanding of past works in his piece of art.

Adrian Frutiger

At the very young age, he began experimenting with stylized handwriting and invented scripts, defying the formal, cursive penmanship then taught at Swiss schools. His interest in sculpturing was not met with very encouraging views by his father and teachers.

Chip kidd Chip Kidd is a writer and designer working in New York City. He primarily designs book jackets, working for Alfred A. Knopf since 1986. Kidd also designs for Pantheon, a subsidiary of Knopf, as an editor of books of comics.

Michael Bierut

He is the humble, gracious, mid-westerner who began studying design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Bierut’s pedigree starts early, with his first internship with AIGA medalist Chris Pullman.

Jacqueline Casey

she began working at MIT in 1955, brought on board through the suggestion of her friend and former classmate Muriel Cooper, and remained at the Institute until her death in 1992.

Cipe Pineles Cipe Pineles began her designer career assisting M.F. Agha at Vogue (a direct rival of Alexey Brodovitch) and Vanity Fair. After years of preparing and learning from a master, Pineles finally rose to the position Agha was preparing her for, Art Director of Glamour magazine. She worked hard to develop the magazine – employing the best talent of the day including another creative on our list, Herbert Matter, despite her publisher's lack of support for the magazine. After Glamour, Pineles took over the reigns at Seventeen, finding founder and editor Helen Valentine's mission to educate teen girls a kin to her own, she pushed the magazine to greatness by utilizing the best artists available to them. Pineles drive and motivation were not overlooked in her make-run world of design, she was the first woman to be asked to join the Art Director’s Club and was later inducted to their Hall of Fame.