List of Graphic Designers
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Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

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  • Jan Balet
    Jan Balet
    Jan Balet , was a famous German/US-American painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Affected by the style naive art he worked particularly as a graphic artist and as an Illustrator of children's books. Besides this he painted pictures in the style of naive art...

  • Noma Bar
    Noma Bar
    Avinoam Noma Bar, is a Graphic Designer. His work has appeared in many media outlets including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper*...

  • Jonathan Barnbrook
    Jonathan Barnbrook
    Jonathan Barnbrook , is a British graphic designer and typographer. He trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art .- Work :...

  • Saul Bass
    Saul Bass
    Saul Bass was a Jewish-American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences....

  • Herbert Bayer
    Herbert Bayer
    Herbert Bayer was an Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus and was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's...

  • Harry Beck
    Harry Beck
    Henry Charles Beck , known as Harry Beck, was an English engineering draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office...

  • Giambattista Bodoni
    Giambattista Bodoni
    Giambattista Bodoni was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a family of different typefaces called Bodoni....

  • Alexey Brodovitch
    Alexey Brodovitch
    Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1938 to 1958.- Early life in Russia :...

  • Neville Brody
    Neville Brody
    Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and Hornsey College of Art, and is known for his work on The Face magazine and Arena magazine , as well as for designing record covers for artists such as...

  • Robert Brownjohn
    Robert Brownjohn
    Robert Brownjohn was a graphic designer known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture...

  • Dick Bruna
    Dick Bruna
    Dick Bruna is a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.Bruna is best known for his children's books which he authored and illustrated, now numbering over 200. His best known creation is Miffy , a small rabbit drawn with heavy graphic lines, simple shapes and primary colors...

  • Peter Buchanan-Smith
    Peter Buchanan-Smith
    Peter Buchanan-Smith is a designer, teacher, entrepreneur, and the founder of , a company that develops artisanal tools and adventure products.- Work :...

  • Jon Burgerman
    Jon Burgerman
    Jon Burgerman is an English artist and illustrator.-Life and work:Jon Burgerman was born August 8, 1979, in Nottingham, UK. He studied art foundation in Bournville, Birmingham, England, and then Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University....


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  • Margaret Calvert
    Margaret Calvert
    Margaret Calvert is a typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout Great Britain, as well as the Transport font used on road signs and the Rail Alphabet font used on the British railway system and an early version of the signs...

  • David Carson
    David Carson (graphic designer)
    David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the 1990s...

  • William Caslon
    William Caslon
    William Caslon , also known as William Caslon I, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a bookbinder's tool cutter...

  • Urso Chappell
    Urso Chappell
    Urso Chappell is an American graphic designer, writer, and world's fair historian born March 4, 1967....

  • Wim Crouwel
    Wim Crouwel
    Willem Hendrik Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer.Between 1947 and 1949 he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands...

  • Stanisław Czerski
    Stanisław Czerski
    Stanislaw Czerski was a Jesuit priest, graphic artist, translator, and man of culture....


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  • Friedrich Kurt Fiedler
    Friedrich Kurt Fiedler
    Friedrich Kurt Fiedler was a German graphic designer and a representative of the Social Democratic Party. During the Weimar Republic he was acknowledged for his poster design, his book illustrations and his drawings...

  • Vittorio Fiorucci
    Vittorio Fiorucci
    Vittorio Fiorucci was an Italian Canadian poster artist from Montreal, Canada.Fiorucci was born on 2 November 1932 in Zara . During World War Two when Zara was about to be captured by Yugoslavia, Fiorucci and his family fled to Venice, Italy, where he subsequently spent most of his childhood...

  • Alan Fletcher
    Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)
    Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific"....

  • Adrian Frutiger
    Adrian Frutiger
    Adrian Frutiger is one of the prominent typeface designers of the 20th century, who continues to influence the direction of digital typography in the 21st century; he is best known for creating the typefaces Univers and Frutiger.-Early life:Adrian Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, as...

  • Shigeo Fukuda
    Shigeo Fukuda
    was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a sculpture created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, that casts a detailed shadow of a motorcycle....


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  • Tom Geismar
    Tom Geismar
    Thomas H. Geismar is an American graphic designer.Geismar studied concurrently at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University...

  • Eric Gill
    Eric Gill
    Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...

  • Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.-Biography:Glaser was born into a Hungarian...

  • April Greiman
    April Greiman
    April Greiman is a contemporary designer. "Recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool, Greiman is also credited, along with early collaborator Jayme Odgers, with establishing the ‘New Wave’ design style in the US during the late 70s and early...

  • Catrin Große
    Catrin G Grosse
    Catrin G Grosse , also known as Catrin Große, is a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor.- Career :Catrin G Grosse began at 16 years of age with an evening class in painting and graphic design in Cottbus at Uli Richter, Hans Scheuerecker und Dietrich Brüning, while obtaining her...


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  • Baron Barrymore Halpenny
    Baron Barrymore Halpenny
    Baron Barrymore Halpenny is a commercial artist, executive editor, writer and historian of traditions and culture, who does work for several publications, but is best known for his book cover illustrations for Ghost Stations, for which he has also been editor for the newly released series.-Early...

  • Steven Heller
  • Armin Hofmann
    Armin Hofmann
    Armin Hofmann is a Swiss graphic designer. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style...

  • Julian House
    Julian House
    Julian House is a graphic designer, a musician, and the co-owner of the Ghost Box Music record label.-Graphic design:House is associated with Intro, a London-based design/production direction company who work in many media...

  • Max Huber
  • Hans Hulsbosch
    Hans Hulsbosch
    Hans Hulsbosch is an Australian designer, responsible for the development of many of Australia's leading brand identities including Qantas and Woolworths.- History :...

  • Angus Hyland
    Angus Hyland
    __notoc__Angus Hyland is a British graphic designer.- Biography :Hyland studied information design at the London College of Printing and Graphic Art and Design at the Royal College of Art...


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  • John Maeda
  • Martin Majoor
    Martin Majoor
    Martin Majoor is a Dutch typedesigner and graphic designer.-Biography:Martin Majoor has been designing type since the mid-1980s. During his study at the School of Fine Art in Arnhem , he shortly worked in a student placement at URW in Hamburg. It was there that he was able to work with the first...

  • Aldus Manutius
    Aldus Manutius
    Aldus Pius Manutius , the Latinised name of Aldo Manuzio —sometimes called Aldus Manutius, the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson, Aldus Manutius, the Younger—was an Italian humanist who became a printer and publisher when he founded the Aldine Press at Venice.His publishing legacy includes...

  • Oscar Mariné
    Oscar Mariné
    Oscar Mariné Brandi Designer, illustrator, expert typographer and professional artist, Oscar Mariné is one of the major communicators in post-Franco Spain...

  • Bruce Mau
    Bruce Mau
    Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries.-Life and career:...

  • Katherine McCoy
    Katherine McCoy
    Katherine McCoy is an American graphic designer and educator, best known for her work as the co-chair of the graduate Design program for Cranbrook Academy of Art....

  • Philip B. Meggs
    Philip B. Meggs
    Philip Baxter Meggs was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. His book History of Graphic Design is a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design....

  • László Moholy-Nagy
    László Moholy-Nagy
    László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...

  • Morteza Momayez
    Morteza Momayez
    Morteza Momayez was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale...

  • William Morris
    William Morris
    William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...

  • Kate Moross
    Kate Moross
    Kate Moross is a designer and illustrator based in London. Her achievements include a nationwide billboard campaign for Cadburys and a signature clothing range for Topshop...

  • Josef Müller-Brockmann
    Josef Müller-Brockmann
    Josef Müller-Brockmann, , was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he...

  • Bruno Munari
    Bruno Munari
    Bruno Munari was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts and non visual arts with his research on games, didactic method and creativity.-Biography:Bruno Munari was born in Milan but spent his...


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  • Peter Saville
  • Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...

  • Paula Scher
    Paula Scher
    Paula Scher, born October 6, 1948, in Washington, DC., is an American graphic designer, illustrator, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991...

  • Ghobad Shiva
    Ghobad Shiva
    - Career :He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He then spent several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art before earning a master's degree from Pratt University, New York, in 1980...

  • Erik Spiekermann
    Erik Spiekermann
    Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen....

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