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John Bienlenberg  is an award winning German Graphic Designer who fancies himself as a freethinking entrepenur. Bienlenberg developed the Blitz Cycle which is used by his firm future to inspire creative methods to solve the world’s problems. He has formed a partnership with other artist to form Common, a brand that supports and connects new socially minded enterprises. One of his programs called project M has helped to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a significant impact on communities. Project M has developed projects in Alabama, Baltimore, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Detroit, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Maine, Minneapolis and New Orleans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reza Abedini

Reza is an Iranian designer and professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University. He is most famously known for his modern Persian typography. He used modern and traditional themes in his unique style. Reza Abedini has won dozens of national and international design awards. He is listed as one of the world’s outstanding post digital designers.

 

 

 

 

Otl Aicher  was a German graphic designer and typographer most notably known for his stick figure pictograms at the 1972 Munich Olympics. His designs were influential in the use of stick figures in public places. Aicher was also a co-founder of the Ulm School of design. In 1966 Aicher was asked by the organizers of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich to become the Olympic Games' lead designer. He was asked to create a design for the Olympics that complemented the architecture of the newly built stadium in Munich designed by Gunther Behnisch. Basing his work in part on iconography for the '64 Games, Aicher created a set of pictograms meant to provide a visual interpretation of the sport they featured so that athletes and visitors to the Olympic village and stadium could find their way around.

 

 

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Eric Nitsche

We are now into the second part of the mod. Looking back I definitely have a type of graphic arts that I am drawn toward. The type of work I speak of is usually colorful, geometric, and modern (next time I will attempt to write about an artist that predominately work in black and white). As is the case with Eric Nitsche. Nitsche was born 1934 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Early in his career at the age of 26 Nitsche moved to the United States where he became known for his partnership with defense contractor/engineering company General Dynamics. General Dynamics hired Nitsche as the company’s art director where he was responsible for and successfully completed their advertising graphics and corporate logos. Post General Dynamics, Nitsche went on to the design of books more specifically children’s books. I mentioned previously what attracts me to this type of graphic design the article states it more skillful than I. Nitsche’s work can described as “meticulous attention to details of page composition, the elegance of simple type presentation, and the juxtaposition of elements on a page. His hallmarks were impeccably clear design, brilliant colors, smart typography, and an adherence to particular geometric foundations.” Eric Nitsche passed in 1998.

More very interesting and fun General Dynamic logos created by Nitsche over the years.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=general+dynamic+graphic+logos+nitsche&FORM=HDRSC2

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd a graphic designer who is famous for his book covers. His book covers are said to make readers appreciate books as objects of art as well as literature. He is sought after by many writers and film directors because of the influence his book covers have on the consumer. He designed the book cover for Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park which also became the marketing image for the feature film. Kidd is also and advent fan of comic books, especially Batman and as such has designed several covers for the DC Comic franchise. In addition to book covers Kidd has written several books and collaborated on several animation projects. He is currently an associate art director at Knopf.

Philip Meggs

Philip Meggs was a graphic designer who was influential in defining the history of graphic design. He was born May 30, 1942, in Florence, S.C. He received a master’s degree of fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. He began his career as a senior designer from Reynolds Aluminum. Later he served as art director for A.H. Robins Pharmaceuticals. It was after teaching students at Virginia Commonwealth that he was inspired to write his book on graphic design because of the student’s lack of fundamental knowledge of the history of graphic design and how it relates to art and industrial design. His book is said to be the first compete overview of the history of graphic design. He also wrote several other books throughout his career and won many awards for his influence on the field of graphic design.

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Brandon Rike

Brandon Rike is a full time graphic designer and Rocker by night. This young guy has designed his album covers, merchandise, logos and T-shirts for his Bands Dead Poetic and At Night We Strike. Besides being a modern designer, he is a techy who has a blog and tweeter feed for his fans to follow. Brian was asked what was his biggest challenge running a design business and this was his response: 

The biggest problem that I have running my freelance operation is maintaining a balance with my social life, and happiness level in general. We assume, early on, that if we work hard enough, we can achieve a certain level of success. It is also our assumption that that level of success will bring us a wealth of happiness. It doesn’t. Achievement of our goals only prompts us to set a new goal, instead of taking any time to enjoy reaching a milestone. After doing freelance design for over a decade, I have set goals and achieved them – only to set a higher goal for the following year, and thus put myself right back to the grind – glossing over any chance to pat myself on the back. It’s possible that continued success in a creative field has an adverse reaction to one’s happiness. Being creative all day, every day, gets more and more taxing. The well of ideas threatens to dry up, and we put more and more pressure on ourselves to stay afloat. The quest for “better” is admirable, but also tortuous. This grind keeps me in my cave, churning out work, giving myself little to no interaction with the outside world. More success, for me, has led to a very reclusive lifestyle. On paper, I’m experiencing the most successful time of my life – in reality, I can’t remember the last time I sat down with a friend for coffee.  The solution? Move happiness to first on your priority list. Meeting with people you enjoy or doing things you love can put you in a positive frame of mind that’s more equipped with managing a heavy workload. This positive outlook instantly manages stress better, and is more effective at calculating an otherwise chaotic and overwhelming to-do list. Days may look less like a row of fires to put out, and more like the privilege that we began these careers with – that, while others toil through jobs that they hate, we get to be creative for a living. - See more at: http://brandonrike.com/#sthash.UpxydvbC.dpuf

Susan Kare

Susan Kare is a graphic designer that creates interface elements for computer programs. Her creations have been used by IBM, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. This queen of Icons has many famous symbols we recognize in our everyday usage like the garbage can, the arrow, and the lasso we use on Photoshop. Kare said of her work: I do every job myself because I think of it as an art’ with the icon and font work, she wants to help counter the stereotypical image of computers as cold and intimidating.  My work has continued to be motivated by respect for and empathy with, users of software’, she said, Kare began to master a peculiar sort of minimal pointillism and spent her days designing understandable visual metaphors for computer commands.

 

Today Kare rather work on designing than representing the business. She is intrigued with the possibility of improving the quality of small monochrome and typefaces in fast handheld devices.

 

                                                David Carson

David Carson is a graphic designer, art director and pro surfer. He has been influential in the design of typography. Carson was hired by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett to design Ray Gun, an alternative music and lifestyle magazine that debuted in 1992. Ray Gun made Carson well known and attracted new admirers to his work. In this period, he was featured in publications such as The New York Times (May 1994) and Newsweek (1996). In 1995, Carson left Ray Gun to found his own studio, David Carson Design, in New York City. He started to attract major clients from all over the United States. During the next three years (1995–1998), Carson was doing work for Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban (orbs project), Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser, Giorgio Armani, NBC, American Airlines and Levi Strauss Jeans, and later worked for a variety of new clients, including AT&T Corporation, British Airways, Kodak, Lycra, Packard Bell, Sony, Suzuki, Toyota, Warner Bros., CNN, Cuervo Gold, Johnson AIDS Foundation, MTV Global, Princo, Lotus Software, Fox TV, Nissan, quiksilver, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, MGM Studios and Nine Inch Nails.

When Graphic Design USA Magazine (NYC) listed the “most influential graphic designers of the era” David was listed as one of the all-time 5 most influential designers, with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli.