A
Adam Voorhes
A 21
Photographer Adam Voorhes is a graduate from Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA. He first moved to Los Angeles, then to New York. Adam now works in his own studio in Austin, Texas, USA, where he enjoys life with his wife and dogs.
Akatre
A 18, A 19, A 20
Akatre was founded by Valentin Abad, Julien Dhivert and Sebastien Riveron. The partners met at art college and the idea of Akatre was born there. However, the studio’s launch was delayed for a year while all three partners gained experience at other studios and companies, including Philippe Apeloig, Integral Ruedi Baur, Pyramyd Editions, Michel Bouvet and Aer’ studio. Valentin, Julien and Sebastien then joined forces to set up their own independent studio close to Paris.
Alex Robbins
A 27
Alex Robbins is an illustrator and designer who graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London. Now based in Berlin, he creates work for clients such as TIME Magazine, The Guardian, Dazed and Confused, Howies and The New Yorker.
Alexander Egger
satellitesmistakenforstars.com
A 22
Alexander Egger is a graphic designer, illustrator, concept developer, artist, writer, musician and publisher of artzines. He lives and works mostly in Vienna, Austria and in Gais, Italy. He works in different media on a range of cultural, commercial and self-initiated projects for either very small or very big clients. His work has been published in international magazines and books and he has had his work exposed in every continent except Antarctica. Monographs of his work have been published by Rupa Publishing and Rojo Editions.
Allistair Burt
A 26
Over the last few years, under the banner of Hole in my Pocket, Allistair has directed a series of short films for the UK’s Channel 4, designed a ‘Storytelling Machine’, and exhibited artwork throughout the UK. His projects have also included creating a series of short books for the Glasgow International Art Festival and his self-initiated Small World Experiment. In 2009, Allistair was the creator of the design competition Common of Houses, which tried to solve the fiasco of British MPs’ expenses through creative means.
Alvin Lustig
See foreword p. 6
Alvin Lustig (1915–1955). Although it is more than half a century since his death, Alvin Lustig’s influence can still be felt, and seen, in contemporary graphic design. Perhaps best known for his groundbreaking book jacket designs of the 1940s – with their use of expressive typography, simple line-art illustrations and photographic collages – Lustig also designed buildings, furniture, interiors, exhibitions, title sequences and, famously, a helicopter. A sense of honesty permeates Lustig’s graphic design work. His stripped-down compositions and direct approach was in line with modernist ideals of the time and, along with Paul Rand, Lusting helped bring these principles to American graphic design. Alvin Lustig also played an important role in design education, teaching in the USA at Black Mountain College, the University of Georgia and Yale University.
Amandine Alessandra
A 13, A 14, A 15, A 16, A 17
Amandine Alessandra is a French photographer and graphic designer based in London. After a Masters in Fine Arts and Aesthetics from the Université de Provence in 2003, she moved to the UK, where she has run her own photographic practice since 2007. She graduated with a Masters in graphic design from the London College of Communication in 2009 and now works as a freelance graphic designer. Her three-dimensional typographic installations confront words and real life. Using context as a playground, the installation becomes a readable experience: contextual letterform is used as a medium for reinterpretation, reinforcing an obvious meaning or opening it up to a new perspective.
Andrew Byrom
A 38, A 39, A 40, A 41, A 42, A 43
See foreword pp. 6–9 Andrew Byrom was born in 1971 in Liverpool, UK. He graduated in 1996 from the University of East London. He worked briefly in the design department of Routledge, a leading academic book publisher, before opening his own design studio in London in 1997. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at the University of Luton and Central Saint Martins. In 2006, Andrew moved to Los Angeles to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University. He now divides his time between teaching, designing for various clients and playing with his sons. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for The New York Times Magazine, Du Magazine, McGraw-Hill and Elle Decoration.
Anna Garforth
A 23, A 24, A 25
Freelance illustrator and environmental artist Anna Garforth is based in London, where she studied at Central Saint Martins. Since graduating, her creative practice (Abe) has grown in ways she never expected. Projects include working with natural media, such as her much-talked-about moss typography – a collaboration with Eleanor Stevens. Anna has, paradoxically, become more appreciative of nature since moving to the city.
Antoine+Manuel
A 12
Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz met in art school in Paris. They soon decided to work together under the name Antoine+Manuel. They combine hand-drawing and computer illustration with their own typography and photography. They each explore their favourite fields and creative methods, resulting in an output which, although diverse, has an obvious unity. Moving from dance to fashion via contemporary art and design, the duo has defined a singular graphic style. They work in the areas of fashion (Christian Lacroix), home and interiors (Habitat, Galeries Lafayette, Domestic, BD Ediciones), publishing, contemporary dance, theatre and art.
April Larivee
See foreword p. 9
April Larivee was born and raised on a small farm surrounded by mountains in Northern California. Her design work draws on this rural upbringing, and on her study of ecology and agriculture. She worked for several years at West Coast Choppers, and is now a consultant for several clients and non-profit organizations. Her experimental designs have appeared in art galleries and featured in design publications.
Arslan Shahid
A 31
Graphic designer Arslan Shahid was born in Pakistan, but lived in Dubai until 2004 when his family moved to Canada. It was there that Arslan started his studies at Toronto-based Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD).
AT.AW.
A 27
Eric Cheung was born in Canada and currently works as an architect in Toronto. His side projects, under the label AT.AW., can be described as ‘guerrilla urbanism’, as he optimistically subverts the often neglected, mediocre and complacent urban condition with a series of small urban projects.
Atelier van Wageningen
A 32
Atelier van Wageningen (AVW) is a (typo)graphic design studio based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since 1995 they have worked for a large number of international organizations including publishing houses, fashion labels and cultural institutions. AVW’s award-winning work has also been published internationally.
Autobahn
A 33, A 34, A 35, A 36, A 37
Dutch studio Autobahn was launched in Utrecht, the Netherlands, by Jeroen Breen, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte – all graduates from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Autobahn’s graphic projects often have an illustrative and typographic focus. This passionate and ambitious team take an analytical approach to start with, followed by a strong sense of form at the end of the process.
Axel Peemoeller
A 28, A 29, A 30
Axel Peemoeller studied visual communications in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Melbourne. He works as a freelance designer, art director and senior designer for different clients and studios. Depending on the project, he travels to wherever he is needed and works for small boutique clients and large corporations. He follows his mantra: ‘Design with thought is good design and will last.’
B
BANK
B 49
Berlin-based BANK is run by French–German duo Sebastian Bissinger and Laure Boer, along with one intern and some associated designers. They plan, develop and realize a wide range of design projects for cultural, institutional and commercial clients, and are interested in unique approaches.
Bela Borsodi
B 44
Bela Borsodi was born in 1966 in Vienna, Austria. He studied fine arts and graphic design at the Akademie für Angewandte Kunst before becoming a photographer. When he started to work for magazines he focused on shooting portraits and some reportage. Bela also experimented with ‘light painting’. He moved to New York in 1992 and started to focus on still life photography in 1999, which remains the main direction of his work to date.
Benoit Lemoine
B 47, B 48
French freelance graphic designer Benoit Lemoine studied in Belgium at the Institut St Luc, Tournai, and at the Graphic Research School in Brussels, from where he graduated in 2007. Since then Benoit has worked for numerous graphic design studios in Canada and Belgium including Studio Feed, Speculoos Studio, Double-Echo Studio and Salutpublic Studio. In 2006, Benoit also co-founded the Repeatafterme collective together with Jonathan Préteux and Guillaume Ninove, who regularly collaborate with Cécile Boche with whom Benoit created the White Desk project featured in this book.
Bola Cooper
B 46
Bola Cooper studied graphic design and illustration at the University of the Arts London, where she specialized in experimental illustration. Outside of university, she also worked with the lead fashion designer of Les Chiffoniers, Leena Similu, designing clothing labels for her start-up collection, as well as exhibiting work in the USA with Five to Nine Magazine.
Bradley–McQuade collaboration
B 46
Graphic designers Jamie McQuade and Thom Bradley graduated from Kingston University in the UK. They are passionate about typography, photography, illustration, printmaking, installation and sculptural work and everything in between. The duo exhibited a conceptual photography installation at the late Paul Arden’s Arden & Anstruther photography gallery in Petworth, UK. They have also contributed to the design and production of independent London fashion and culture magazine Playground.
Brent Barson
B 45
Brent Barson graduated from the USA’s Brigham Young University in 1997 with a BFA in graphic design, and he has been designing in all media ever since. He graduated from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, with an MFA in media design in 2003, which led him to his current post as an assistant professor in BYU’s graphic design department. He creates websites and interfaces, corporate identities, posters, and all other forms of design, but his first love is creating motion graphics. He has created the opening titles to a variety of independent films, as well as creating all motion graphics for the Typophile Film Festival since 2006.
C
Charlie Hocking
C 65
Charlie Hocking is a London-based graphic designer and art director. He graduated in 2010 from London College of Communication. He has worked with studios in both the USA and the UK, interning with Steven Harrington and Justin Kreitmeyer at National Forest in Los Angeles and at Village Green Studio in London.
Charlotte Cornaton
C 65
Freelance graphic designer, videographer and ceramics artist Charlotte Cornaton graduated in art direction and graphic design from ESAG Penninghen in Paris in 2009. She has also attended ceramics courses at Central Saint Martins in London.
Cheil USA
C 50
Established in 1992, Cheil USA is the North America Regional Headquarters of Cheil Worldwide – the 16th-largest advertising agency in the world – which is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Based in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, Cheil USA has North American locations in Dallas, Texas; Toronto, Canada; and Mexico. Through passion for ideas and idea engineering, Cheil Worldwide is a full-service communications agency specializing in creative, media, interactive, promotions and event marketing.
Chris Tozer
C 61
Fascinated by the possibilities of typography as image, Chris Tozer began experimenting with three-dimensional type during the final year of his graphic design degree at University College Falmouth, UK. His experimental project culminated in a book called XYZ: Spatial Typography, which investigates the possibilities of giving type a spatial context.
Chris Wilkinson
nineteeneighty.co.uk shu.ac.uk
C 64
Chris Wilkinson is a graphic designer based in Sheffield, UK, specializing in print design, art direction and illustration. He works on a regular basis with Sheffield Hallam University. Some of the key projects he has worked on include the rebrand of Sheffield Institute of Arts and the identity for the annual Creative Spark degree show. In around 2007, Chris developed a passion for creating type in 3D and considers himself lucky to have been able to use it in a few projects since then.
Chrysostomos Tsimourdagkas
C 66, C 67
Chrysostomos Tsimourdagkas (BArch, University of Thessaly, 2005, MArch, Architectural Association, 2007) is a registered architect in Greece. He has worked as a graphic, industrial and architectural designer for several firms including Zaha Hadid Architects. His work has been promoted through lectures and exhibitions in Athens, Helsinki, Berlin, Chicago, London and New York. At the time of writing, Chrysostomos was pursuing a PhD at the Department of Architecture of the Royal College of Art in London, investigating ways in which typography can be incorporated into the architectural field. This study is being funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation.
Clotilde Olyff
C 58, C 59, C 60
Brussels-based graphic designer and typographer Clotilde Olyff has been an elected member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 2004. Since 1993 she has been a lecturer at Brussel’s Le 75 – École Supérieure des Arts de l’image. She also works as a freelancer for agencies, industry and the public sector. To date, Clothilde has designed 42 stamps for Belgium and is the author and editor of 62 books and five typographic games. She has also published fonts via Font Bureau, USA and 2Rebbels in Canada. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has also lectured across the world.
Conor & David
C 56
Conor Nolan and David Wall are designers who work on print, interactive and identity projects in Dublin, Ireland. Conor studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona, while David studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Both graduated in 2002. Since the duo founded their studio in 2006, the focus of Conor & David’s work has been to create thoughtful, rational, content-driven graphic design for print and screen, for a wide variety of clients.
Corriette Schoenaerts
C 60, C 62, C 63
Corriette Schoenaerts is a Belgian photographer based in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Rietveld Academy and has been freelancing ever since. She works in the fields of autonomous, fashion and commercial photography, refusing to draw any finite distinctions between these fields. Corriette doesn’t use a single, unambiguous style or choice of subject, choosing instead to research the message itself. According to her, a recognizable style is ‘a cheap trick that fails to bring pleasure to yourself, your work or the public.’
Craig Ward
C 51, C 52, C 53, C 54, C 55, C 57,
Craig Ward is a New York-based designer and typographer who likes playing with words. Having graduated in 2003 from Buckinghamshire Chiltern’s University in the UK, he now operates under the moniker ‘Words are Pictures’, bringing life to headlines and constantly exploring the notion of type as image. He was named as one of the Art Directors Club of New York’s Young Guns for 2008, and in 2009 received a certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club. For the most part he works alone, but he is collaborating more and more; he uses other people’s skills to realize his increasingly complex ideas.
D
Daryl Tanghe
D 68, D 70
Daryl Tanghe grew up in Metro Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies, where he learned how to design and relearned how to think about the world. Upon graduating from CCS, he moved from Detroit to Seattle, Washington, where he currently resides and works at Microsoft on the Windows team.
Dave Wood
D 69
In 2005 Dave moved to London and began his graphic design education at Kingston University. The diversity of the course allowed him to explore and develop a portfolio that bridged new media, product design and film. After being nominated for the D&AD student awards in 2008, Dave gained experience in numerous studios including GBH and Johnson Banks, before going to work as a designer for The Partners. He is currently involved in a healthy mix of projects from small independent ones to international-scale jobs. He also pursues self-initiated projects in his spare time, and is currently indulging a passion for screenprinting and traditional processes.
David Aspinall
D 70
David Aspinall is a London-based creative designer who enjoys experimenting with different media and materials. He graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2007. David relishes working with 3D materials, getting his hands dirty and finding solutions to the problems his ideas create.
Denise Gonzales Crisp
D 68
‘Bi-located’ in Los Angeles, California and Raleigh, North Carolina, Denise Gonzales Crisp is a professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University and designer of the occasional studio SuperStove! Her designs and writings have appeared in many international publishing venues, including Emigré, Items, Form, Design and Culture Journal, Design Observer and Eye Magazine; in anthologies such as All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives; and in exhibitions, including Dimension+Typography and East Coast/West Coast: Graphics in the United States. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Detail. Design Studio
D 70
Detail. Design Studio is a creatively led design and communications company that was established in 2005. They specialize in identity, print communications and interactive design projects – large and small, simple and complex. Detail believe in analysis, simplicity, clear messages and original output. They help their clients develop a clear and consistent vision for their brand, products, services and environments.
Dolly Rogers
D 71
Creative agency Dolly Rogers was founded in 2008 by Jennette Snape and Chris Costuna, both originally from Australia. The designers met while living in Amsterdam, where they are now based. Jennette and Chris believe that market research is not done behind a desk – they live the culture that they create for. They create visual communication concepts that are printed, that appear on screen, that make sound, that are silent, some that are bigger than you and others that can fit in your pocket.
E
Ed Nacional
E 73
Ed Nacional is a graphic designer, type geek and recent graduate from Parsons the New School for Design. He is originally from Canada but now happily calls Brooklyn home. Ed designs for both print and the web, but also gets his hands dirty with printmaking techniques like silkscreen, gocco and letterpress.
Efsun Senturk
E 74
Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Efsun Senturk is a freelance graphic designer based in Shoreditch, East London. She graduated from London College of Communication in 2007.
Elfen
E 74
Guto Evans is a co-founder of Elfen, a design and branding company based in Cardiff Bay, Wales. Formed in 1997, the company has built a reputation for creating successful design and branding projects for a wide variety of clients. The company has a team of six multi-disciplined creatives working within the media, arts and cultural sectors.
Émilie Chen
E 72
Paris-based graphic designer Émilie Chen graduated in 2008 from the DSAA, ESAAB college in Nevers, France. After an internship at the design agency ODD in London, she went back to Paris to work in a small agency.
Emeline Brulé
E 77
Originally from France, Emeline Brulé moved to Brussels, Belgium, in 2009 to start her studies in visual communication, graphic design and typography at graphic research school ERG.
ÉricandMarie
E 76
ÉricandMarie – Marie and Éric Gaspar – live and work in Paris. They teamed up in 2002, but have known each other and worked together since the early days of their graphic design education. After a first qualification in France, they obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Central Saint Martins College and a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London. They have carried out commissions for the Royal College of Art, the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Villa Noailles in Hyères, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris.
Ersin Han Ersin
E 75
Freelance graphic designer Ersin Han Ersin is based in Ankara, Turkey. He has won several awards for his poster designs, which have been exhibited internationally.
Evelin Kasikov
E 78, E 79
Evelin Kasikov is an artist and designer. Born in Estonia, she now lives and works in London. Her work crosses the boundaries between handmade and digital. She creates typographic illustrations by fusing modernist design principles, technology and craft. By transforming printing processes into hand-embroidery, her work is influenced by craft but retains the context of graphic design. In 2008 she graduated from the MA communication design course at Central Saint Martins in London. She works as an independent designer, specializing in handmade type, typographic illustration and editorial work.
F
Fajn Hajp Agency
F 85
Filip Bojovic is the founder of this Serbian design agency, which is based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina.
Farina Kuklinski
F 80, F 81
Berlin-based graphic desiger Farina Kuklinski studied at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten (Academy of Fine Arts) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from where she graduated in 2009.
Ferdinand Alfonso
F 82
Ferdinand Alfonso is a graphic designer based in New York City. He graduated from the California College of Arts (and Crafts) in San Francisco/Oakland with a BFA in graphic design.
FL@33
F 88, F 89
See biography on page 240.
Fluid
F 84, L 138
See also Lee Basford’s biography. Birmingham-based Fluid was launched in 1995. Fluid is not only their name but also their branding philosophy. There is no house style, and the studio represents a rich pool of outstanding talent from a wide range of artistic disciplines. The company ethos ‘Never Not Creating’ ensures that every project they undertake benefits from an ingrained passion and cultural knowledge, earning Fluid a growing reputation for consistently evolving creativity.
Form
F 83
Form is an award-winning London-based design company founded by Paul West and Paula Benson in 1991. They work in graphic design and branding for music, media, education and contemporary culture. They are driven by a passion for design and the power it has to make a difference to their clients and their products and services. Their innovative approach has resulted in effective and creative design solutions for identities, print and digital. Their work is frequently featured in design magazines, books and blogs, and the partners often lecture on design and culture.
Frost*Design
F 86, F 87
Frost is an internationally awarded creative studio founded by Vince Frost in 1994. Based in Sydney, Australia, the Frost team focuses on delivering real and enduring results for their clients. They work on anything from postage stamps to the built environment. The studio’s collective skills and experience allow it to work seamlessly across a variety of media for a diverse range of international clients. Central to Frost’s philosophy is the value and power of the ‘Big Idea’ and the difference it can make to a business, large or small, when correctly executed.
Funda Cevik
F 85
Turkish graphic designer Funda Cevik was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She graduated from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2007 with a degree in graphic design before moving to Edinburgh to obtain her MFA degree in the same discipline at the Edinburgh College of Art.
G
Gareth Holt
G 92
Independent designer and art director Gareth Holt runs his own studio in London, UK. He is a graduate of Camberwell College of Art and completed a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art. Conceptually driven, ideas-led design is fundamental to his approach and practice. He often collaborates with other designers on projects, and is a visiting lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and UCA Epsom.
Geoff Kaplan
G 93
USA-based designer Geoff Kaplan of General Working Group has produced projects for a range of academic and cultural institutions, including MOCA, the Walker Art Center and CalArts. His work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is senior adjunct professor in design at California College of the Arts.
Georgina Potier and Itamar Ferrer
G 90
Georgina Potier completed her BA in illustration at Kingston University, UK, and her MA in communication design at Central Saint Martins in London. She is an award-winning designer and conceptual thinker, whose strengths lie in bridging the gap between illustration and design, working in 2D and 3D to create quirky and thought-provoking images. The project Earth Will Survive shown in this book was a collaboration between Georgina and designer Itamar Ferrer. Itamar is from Venezuela and also obtained an MA from Central Saint Martins in 2007. Itamar now works with diverse clients including Research Centres Design Against Crime and Textile Futures from University of the Arts London.
Gluekit
G 91
Gluekit is the illustration and design team of Kathleen Sleboda and Christopher Sleboda. Working from their home studio in Guilford, Connecticut, Gluekit creates illustrations, graphics and type treatments for clients around the world. In addition to their commercial work, the pair is passionate about their self-initiated projects. These range from typographic explorations to image and language play, experiments with visual narration and spatial relationships, and illustrations involving baby animals, pop stars, bricks and hearts. Gluekit’s work has been exhibited in Japan, the UK, the Netherlands and the USA. In 2007 the pair established Part of It, a project that works with artists to create products for causes they are passionate about.
Go Welsh
G 90
Go Welsh is a design studio based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. They produce advertising, graphic design and public relations projects. Their widely published work has also been exhibited in New York at AIGA, the One Club, the Time Square Alliance, in Milwaukee at the Eisner American Museum of Advertising and Design, in the Morrison Gallery at Penn State Harrisburg, and is included in the permanent archives of the Denver Art Museum. Their work has also been part of travelling exhibitions in Canada and China.
H
HandMadeFont
H 100
Estonian design company HandMadeFont was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov. They specialize in developing unique, untraditional fonts. Their website offers hundreds of beautifully crafted fonts that can be purchased and used freely for any purpose from business cards to outdoor advertisements.
Handverk
H 106, H 107, H 108, H 109
Handverk is a small design company based in a small snowy town in the Norwegian countryside. The company was formed in 2009 by Eivind S. Platou (formerly Fruitcake Oslo) and Kåre Martens (formerly of Sopp Collective). As the name Handverk (Norwegian for ‘hand craft’) suggests, they approach most projects with a tactile and handmade sensibility.
Happycentro
H 102, H 103
Graphic design studio Happycentro was launched in 1998 in Verona, Italy. The studio’s approach to design is always the same: designing a logo, an advertising page, a wall or directing a commercial offers the same opportunity to deal with a problem. Mixing complexity, order and fatigue is their formula for beauty. In addition to their commissioned work, they always spend time and energy in research and testing.
Hat-trick
H 110, H 111
Multi-disciplinary studio Hat-trick Design was formed in 2001. They currently have ten staff based in their offices in London. They work for a wide variety of clients and, at the time this book was compiled, they ranked number two in Design Week’s creative survey. Their aim is to provide their clients with the highest standard of creative design and project management. They believe that the best way to achieve this is by the directors being very hands-on and leading the jobs from the front.
Helen Mycroft
H 104
Helen Mycroft is a creative from Sydney who splits her time between her two home countries of Australia and England. She studied at the University of Lincoln (School of Art and Design), UK, graduating in 2008 with a BA in graphic design. She won the YCN and Clearchannel student awards while there. Her work is a mix of pattern, type and love; it combines illustration and graphic design with strong ideas to create something that has concept and thought as well as being visually appealing.
Helena Dietrich
H 104, H 105
Helena Dietrich is based in Stuttgart, Germany, where she works as a freelance graphic designer. She also works on self-initiated networking projects, such as Vow, a shop and gallery in Stuttgart, and a magzine that she co-edits and art-directs with Denise Amann.
Hijack Your Life
H 94, H 95, H 96
Hijack Your Life, aka Kalle Mattsson, lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, although he originally hails from Uppsala, Sweden. In the past he has worked freelance and in-house, focusing on illustration and graphic design.
Hoax
H 101
Hoax is a graphic design studio based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was founded by Bram Buijs, Steven van der Kaaij and Sven Gerhardt after their graduation from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). All three are passionate about typography, materials and experimentation. Their main goal in graphic design is to steadily broaden their horizons, and they constantly try to renew their way of working by doing all sorts of experiments. They believe that every assignment deserves its own unique approach, resulting in its own individual visual translation.
Horst
See foreword p. 9
Horst P. Horst (1906–1999), most often known just as ‘Horst’, was a German-American photographer best known for the images of women and fashion he made for Vogue magazine. Horst began his association with Vogue in 1931, publishing his first photograph in the French edition of the magazine in November of that year. His first exhibition was shown in La Plume d’Or in Paris in 1932. A positive review appeared in The New Yorker after the show was over, and it made Horst instantly famous. Horst made a portrait of film star Bette Davis the same year, the first in a series of many celebrities that he would photograph during his life.
Hort
H 104
Berlin-based Hort (formerly known as Eike’s Grafischer Hort, which was launched in 1994) is run by Eike König. Hort is a direct translation of the studio’s mission – a creative playground and a place where ‘work and play’ can be said in the same sentence. Hort is an unconventional working environment. Once a household name in the music industry, it is now a multi-disciplinary creative hub. It is not just a studio space, but an institution devoted to making ideas come to life; a place to learn, a place to grow, and a place that is still growing.
HunterGatherer
H 97, H 98, H 99
HunterGatherer is a New York Citybased design, illustration, animation and production studio founded by Todd St. John. It has earned international recognition for its spare but inventive projects, which often combine experimental and hand-built techniques with more complex methods. Since 2000, HunterGatherer has stayed decidely small, focusing on a limited number of assignments across a wide range of media.
Huy Vu
H 105
Graphic designer Huy Vu obtained a MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He now lives in his home town of New York City and works for Jack Spade, designing everything from prints and patterns to special projects. Prior to all of this, he graduated from Carleton College with a BA in biology, upon which he sought employment as a janitor, a dance music publicist and a web producer at Listen Up!
I
Intercity
I 112
Intercity is a London-based graphic design studio with a network of collaborators from the worlds of art, design, illustration, photography and more.
Italo Lupi
I 113
Born in 1934, Milano-based graphic designer Italo Lupi has an academic background in architecture, having studied at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), an honorary member of the Art Directors Club of Milan, and was awarded the title of HonRDI (Honorary Royal Designer for Industry) in London. Exhibitions of Lupi’s works have been held in New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Grenoble and Echirolles.
J
J. Kyle Daevel
J 132
J. Kyle Daevel is a Chicago-based designer and artist. He received an MFA in 3D design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a BFA in graphic design from the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. His studio focuses on experimental 2D and 3D design, including furniture, products, graphic design and public art. Many of his 3D experiments draw upon his past professional 2D work. Typography, pattern and iconography are 2D topics that he consistently revisits within 3D archetypes.
Jack Curry
J 125
Freelance graphic designer and photographer Jack Curry is from Orange County, Florida, and studied at California State University, Long Beach. His Dash house number project, featured in this book, was awarded Judge’s Top Honors for Student Work by the Type Directors Club 2009 Annual.
Jamie Hearn
J 117
This London-based graphic designer graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2010. Hearn won the 2004 Designer of the Future competition run by the Design Museum, London. He has worked for the creative agencies Landor, LagoStudio, Italy and Johnson Banks.
Jan Olof Nygren
J 128
Jan Olof Nygren obtained a BFA from the School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he also grew up. After successfully applying for a Fulbright grant he then studied for two years at the 2D design program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and received an MFA degree. His previous work experience included a one-year position as a graphic designer at Ó! in Reykjavík, Iceland. He now works as a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and typographer and splits his time and work between Europe and the USA.
Jan von Holleben
J 117
Jan von Holleben is an artist and photographer who lives and plays in Berlin. He is internationally known for his project Dreams of Flying. Jan grew up in an alternative commune in the south of Germany. He loves the mountains, muesli and herbal tea. For his education and the development of his work, he spent seven years in London, which he enjoyed and hated at the same time. He works across all fields of design for galleries, magazines and advertising. However, his passion lies within the photo-book-making world, where he can apply the ideas of the Homo Ludens, the man who learns through play, at its best with great publishers.
Jarrik Muller
J 129, J 130
Jarrik Muller runs a design studio in Amsterdam, and occasionally works with international collaborators. He graduated in fine arts in graphic design in 2007 from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Jarrik specializes in printed media, creative concepts, art direction, graphic design and typography.
Jenna Burwell
J 131
Graphic designer Jenna Burwell graduated from Lincoln University, UK, in 2010. Before this she studied general art and design at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. Her work mainly consists of making and creating, photographing and then taking this into a graphic format.
Ji Lee
J 133
Born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Ji Lee moved to New York to study graphic design at Parsons School of Design. After his studies, Ji worked in the fields of design, art, branding and advertising. Ji now works as the creative director at Google Creative Lab in New York, an in-house branding and marketing department at Google. Ji is the founder of the Bubble Project and the author of two books: Talk Back: The Bubble Project (Mark Batty, 2006) and Univers Revolved: A 3-Dimensional Alphabet (Harry N. Abrams, 2004). Ji’s work has appeared in ABC World News, The New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, Boing Boing and Gizmodo, among others.
Jim Stevens
R 187 (under Ryan Molloy)
Jim Stevens was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. After a BA degree from Savannah College of Art and Design he got a Master of Architecture degree from North Carolina State University and the American Institute of Architects’ Henry Adams Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture. Jim now has a full-time tenure track appointment at Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design in Southfield, Michigan. Along with his faculty appointment, he maintains a digital fabrication and design studio in Detroit, Michigan. Jim has published and lectured in the US, China and the Middle East.
João Henrique Wilbert
J 126, J 127
João Henrique Wilbert is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary media artist and researcher with interest and experience in interaction, design and programming. Over the last few years he has created and developed web and installationbased projects that engage with the use of technology as a medium for collaboration and creative expression. João has also worked as art director and web programmer for commercial brands worldwide. He is currently involved with research in the fields of tactical media, viral networks and reverse engineering.
Johanna Bonnevier
J 125
Johanna Bonnevier works as a freelance graphic designer based in London, although she is originally from Sweden. She is a former Central Saint Martins student. Since graduating, she has worked mostly with exhibition design/signage and books but also with printed matter. Her clients have included B-store, the Embassy of Sweden and Färgfabriken art space. Johanna frequently collaborates with 42/architects; under the name of weare42 they also work on joint projects that lie somewhere between graphic design and architecture.
John Morgan studio
J 114, J 115
From the typography department at Reading University in the UK, John Morgan assisted Derek Birdsall at Omnific, London. In 2000 he established John Morgan studio, where he works with a small team on Platform 1 of Paddington Station. Alongside studio work, he has tutored at Central Saint Martins and the University of Reading, and co-founded Workplace Co-operative 115 with Robin Kinross, a new building for designers and makers. Morgan’s projects include prayer books for the Church of England, granite poetry for the BBC, exhibition design for the Design Museum, art direction for Phillips de Pury, and a new graphic identity for David Chipperfield Architects. He has written for various journals, including Typography Papers and Dot Dot Dot.
Jonathan Hall
J 118
Jonathan Hall studied graphic design at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2007. Originally from Northern Ireland, Jonathan now lives and works in Glasgow. Since graduating he has worked as a freelance designer/illustrator on both commissioned and self-initiated projects. His work deals largely with the physical and aesthetic qualities of old books and ephemera, using the familiar visual language of this material to create something distinctive and new.
Jörger-Stauss
J 114, J 116
Theres Jörger studied visual communication at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland. She graduated in 2001, having conducted research into typography and space. Theres now works freelance in Zürich. Since 2002 she has worked regularly in collaboration with the photographer Susanne Stauss. Susanne studied textile design and photography at the School of Art and Design Zürich, and since graduating has worked as a freelance photographer. Her focal point is artistic documentary photography. Work featured in this book includes both Theres’s solo work and her collaborations with Susanne.
Juan Camilo Rojas
J 119, J 120, J 121, J 122, J 123, J 124
Colombian-born graphic designer Juan Camilo Rojas graduated from New World School of the Arts in Miami, USA, where he is now based. He considers his typographic work and experiments as an art form that enables him to communicate social awareness.
Juan Pablo Cambariere
J 124
Juan Pablo Cambariere studied graphic design at Buenos Aires University, Argentina, where he is based. He is one of the most renowned South American book designers and his work has been featured in publications around the world. Juan is also a sculptor; he studied fine arts at the Buenos Aires Fine Arts Academy and worked for seven years as an assistant to Argentinian sculptor Enio Iommi. From a combination of both experiences, he developed Essay on Power, a ‘family’ of wooden puppets that he built to represent the whole of society.
Jung Eun Park
J 131
Jung Eun Park is a freelance illustrator based in South Korea. She studied illustration at Central Saint Martins, London, from where she graduated in 2007.
K
Kari Szentesi
See foreword p. 9
Kari Szentesi was born and raised in San Diego, California. Her graphic design work is experimental in nature – playing with expectations, and asking the viewer to look closer.
Karin von Ompteda
K 136, P 179
Karin von Ompteda is a doctoral researcher at the Royal College of Art, London, investigating typeface design for people with visual impairments. She continues to engage in self-initiated and commercial typographic design projects alongside her PhD work with clients including Fortune Magazine and Research RCA. Karin has lectured at international conferences including at ATypI 2008 and Include 2009. She has won awards for her research including the Commonwealth Scholarship (United Kingdom) and a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Work featured in this book includes Karin’s solo work and a collaboration with Peter Crnokrak. .
Karina Petersen
K 136, K 137
Graphic designer Karina Petersen from Denmark holds an MA in graphic design and is a 2009 graduate from Kolding School of Design, Denmark. In 2009 a book on her typographical work was published. Previously she has had work published in various design publications. Her work is characterized by an experimental and artistic approach, from minimalistic typographical compositions to abstract visual experiments, using collage, drawing, typography and photographs.
Kate Lyons
K 134
London-based freelance graphic designer Kate Lyons graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2007. To date, her clients have included two publishers, a museum, a gallery, an artist, an exhibition designer, an events venue, a college, a library, a church, a pub and friends. Her work is mainly print-based and often typographic, and she regularly collaborates with her previous tutor Phil Baines. She especially enjoys designing books.
Kris Hofmann
K 134, K 135
Originally from Austria, Kristina Hofmann moved to London in 2003. She holds a Masters degree from London’s Royal College of Art, from where she graduated in 2009. She works as a freelance designer and director from her East London studio. She has a particular interest in experimenting with handmade techniques and their application to animation and typographic design. The building of sets and the use of tangible materials to play with the idea of what is 3D and 2D, real or not, is a recurring motif in both her print and moving-image work.
L
Lee Basford
L 138, F 84
See also Fluid’s biography. Lee Basford is the art director at Fluid in Birmingham, UK, and works in and around the overlap of art and design, producing work for arts, video games, fashion and music companies. He has written and illustrated for the magazines Paper-Sky, Dazed and Confused, Tokion and Level; designed typefaces for T26 and Fountain, and exhibited internationally both as a solo artist and a member of the Outcrowd. His work has been featured in numerous books and design journals. In 2007 he was invited by Uniqlo to their Creative Awards in Japan, where he received a Judges Choice Award.
Lee Stokes
L 138
Originally from Stoke-on-Trent in the UK, Lee Stokes is now based in London, where he works freelance under his moniker StokeS.
Lisa Rienermann
L 139
Originally from Cologne, Germany, freelance designer and photographer Lisa Rienermann now lives and works in Berlin. In 2005 she spent a semester in Barcelona. It was here that she created her project Type The Sky, for which she won awards and international recognition in 2007 and 2008. Lisa graduated from Folkwang Hochschule in 2008.
Louis Danziger
See foreword p. 6
New York City-born Louis Danziger (b. 1923) began his design education in high school and in Federal Art Project classes from 1938 to 1942. During 1946 through 1948, after military service in the Pacific, he continued his education, studying with Alvin Lustig and Alexey Brodovitch. He began his design practice in Los Angeles in 1949. His work includes art direction, advertising concepts and design. His work has been widely published and his clients have ranged from minuscule enterprises to major international corporations. A design educator for more than 50 years, he currently teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has taught at Chouinard Art Institute, been the director of the design program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and taught at Harvard University, Carpenter Center (1978–88). He has given lectures and workshops at major universities throughout the USA as well as in Canada and Japan. Most notably, he pioneered the teaching of graphic design history in the USA. Elected to membership of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) in 1974, he has also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Art Museum in 1982, the Distinguished Designer Fellowship Award from the NEA in 1985, and was awarded the AIGA Medal in 1998.
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MAGMA Brand Design
M 157
MAGMA Brand Design is an agency with a focus on corporate and brand design. It regards design as means to communicate information, values and attitudes; a way of evoking feelings and triggering thoughts and actions; and a method for breathing life into brands. Design is currently a general discipline that manifests itself in the interaction between society, companies and the market. MAGMA Brand Design supports corporate design processes and conducts projects in various branches and different media.
Marian Bantjes
See foreword p. 7
Marian Bantjes has been variously described as a typographer, designer, artist and writer. Working from her base on a small island off the west coast of Canada, her personal, obsessive and sometimes strange graphic work has brought her international recognition. Following her interests in complexity and structure, Marian is known for her custom typography, detailed and lovingly precise vector art, her obsessive hand-work, and her patterning and ornament. Her work has been published in books and magazines around the world. She has lectured on her work throughout the USA and in many other countries, including South Africa, Argentina, Norway, France and New Zealand. In 2010, she spoke at the renowned TED Conference at Long Beach, California. In 2008, she was accepted as a member of the prestigious international design organization, Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). In the same year a monograph of her work was published as part of the bilingual design&designer book series by Pyramyd Editions, France. Her book I Wonder was published in 2010 by Thames & Hudson.
Mario Hugo
M 147
Mario Hugo is a New York-based artist and designer. Although he spends an inordinate amount of time in front of his computer, Mario still feels most honest with a pencil and two or more sheets of paper.
Marion Bataille
M 158, M 159
Paris-based Marion Bataille is a freelance graphic designer of book covers, typography and illustration. She graduated from ESAG Penninghen in Paris in 1988 and published her first book, Livre de Lettres (Editions Thierry Magnier), in 1999. Her popular alphabet pop-up book ABC 3D was released by numerous publishers around the globe in 2008.
Mark Formanek
M 142, M 143
German artist Mark Formanek lives and works in Münster and Berlin. The project Standard Time featured in this book was conceived by Mark and realized in collaboration with Jörn Hintzer and Jakob Hüfner of online broadcaster Datenstrudel. Datenstrudel (set up with a dozen like-minded artists in 2000) have streamed interactive web shows, realized music videos, directed TV commercials, and written and produced long and short feature film. They live and work in Berlin and released Mark’s Standard Time as a DVD – a real-time 24-hour screensaver.
Me Studio
M 148, M 149, M 150, M 151
Me Studio is a small graphic design studio that was founded in 2005 in Amsterdam by Martin Pyper, a British designer who has lived in the Netherlands since 1989. Martin studied at art school in the UK and speaks fluent Dutch.
Merci Bernard
M 153, M 154, M 155, M 156
French graphic designer Thomas Bernard graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués de Bourgogne (ESAAB). He founded Merci Bernard in 2007 and is also a member of the French graphic design collective Think Experimental.
Mervyn Kurlansky
M 141
Educated at Central School, London 1960, Mervyn co-founded Pentagram in 1972 and set up Mervyn Kurlansky Design in 1994. His clients include multinational corporations, cultural establishments and educational institutions worldwide. He has won numerous design awards and was inducted into the South African Hall of Fame in 2006. His work is in the permanent collection of MOMA, New York, and has been featured in publications and exhibitions worldwide. He is the co-author of several books on Pentagram and design-related subjects. Active in design education, Mervyn lectures extensively and serves on design juries internationally. He is the past President of Icograda, Fellow of CSD, ISTD and RSA, and a member of AGI and Danish Designers.
Mesh Design
M 152
Mesh Design are a small but passionate collection of graduates based in the Midlands, UK. Formed in 2008, they combined their varying skills to create one company. Their collaborative approach and passionate enthusiasm for design has allowed them to work on a number of branding, advertising and website design projects for national companies. In their own words, ‘The office is like a jostling hotbed of arguing enthusiasts. All this creative energy means that the projects we work on are delivered as seen through an educated, aesthetically invigorated eye.’
Michael Hübner
M 146
Michael Hübner was born in Leipzig, Germany. He began his design studies in the Bauhaus town of Dessau and explored various fields of creation. During this time he spent 14 months in France, where he studied art and communication for one semester in Angoulême and worked in Paris for Dream On. After graduating, Michael moved to Berlin to work for Minigram. In 2009 he moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he started a Masters in visual communication and iconic research at the Basel School of Design. In his research studies he explores how images work and focuses on spatial relations and representations like maps or panoramic pictures. Alongside his research, Michael continues to work as a designer.
Michelle Jones
M 146
Michelle Jones graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2004. She is passionate about 3D and hand-drawn type in her work.
Miguel Ramirez
M 140, M 144, M 145
Miguel Ramirez is a Los Angelesbased designer. Through his studies at California State University, Long Beach and in Basel, Switzerland, and his work experience at Art Center College of Design, he has developed an interest for experimental typography. Miguel continues to express his passion for type through various three-dimensional works.
Milton Glaser
See foreword p. 7
Milton Glaser (b. 1929) is one of the most celebrated graphic designers in the USA. He has had one-man shows at MoMA, New York, and the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. In 2004 he was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. As a Fulbright scholar, Glaser studied with the painter Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, Italy, and is an articulate spokesman for the ethical practice of design. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.
Miranda van Hooft
M 145
Miranda van Hooft is based in the Netherlands. In 2004, she graduated as an art director from the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, and in 2009 as a graphic designer from the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague.
MoreGood
M 160, M 161
MoreGood is home to the work of Ralph Hawkins and Amy Ricketts. MoreGood was set up in 2009 after the duo’s graduation in graphic communication. MoreGood also teach part-time at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
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Nathan Gale
N 164
See Intercity for biography.
Nemanja Jehlicka
N 163
Nemanja Jehlicka was born in Belgrade (then still part of Yugoslavia) and was raised in Paris, France. He is the son of a graphic designer and a cultural attaché, and graduated from Paris’s Lycée Technique Auguste Renoir in 2000. Nemanja is now based in Belgrade, where he works as a freelance art director, type designer and illustrator.
Non-Format
N 162
Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British) have worked together as the creative direction and design team Non-Format since 2000. They work on a range of projects including art direction, design, illustration and custom typography for arts and culture, music industry, fashion and advertising clients. They have art-directed the independent music monthly The Wire and also Varoom, the journal of illustration and made images. Their first monograph was published in 2006 by Pyramyd Editions as part of the bilingual design&designer series. In 2007 a hardback monograph entitled Non-Format Love Song was published by Die Gestalten Verlag; a second edition was released in 2008. Non-Format are based in Oslo, Norway and in Minneapolis, USA.
NR2154
N 165
Established by Jacob Wildschiødtz and Troels Faber, NR2154 is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Copenhagen and New York. Troels and Jacob have worked together since 1996 when, at the age of 20, they launched a skateboard magazine. This was followed by a music and lifestyle magazine in 1998. That same year they completed their first client design projects, and they set up the design studio, which in 2005 changed its name to NR2154. The name NR2154 is a project number, underlining the ethos that the project always comes first. This focus is also evident from the studio’s variety of solutions, including both overall visual identities and the implementation of individual elements such as exhibition designs and books.
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Oded Ezer
O 166, O 167, O 168, O 169
Oded Ezer is an award-winning graphic designer, type designer, design educator, pioneer in the field of 3D Hebrew lettering and a typographic experimentalist who invented the term ‘biotypography’. Oded’s projects, posters and graphic works are showcased and published worldwide, and are part of the permanent collections of eminent museums such as MoMA, New York, Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, and the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland. Oded studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem from 1994 to 1998. In 2000 he set up his own independent studio, Oded Ezer Typography, in Givatayim, where he specializes in brand identity, typographic design and Hebrew and Latin typeface design. He also teaches typography and graphic design at H.I.T. (Holon Institute of Technology), and at the Wizo Haifa College of Design, and gives lectures in academies and conferences outside Israel. Oded’s first monograph, Oded Ezer: The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy, was published by Die Gestalten Verlag in 2009.
Open Studio
O 169
Julia Furtmann and Kai Hoffmann live and work together in Düsseldorf, Germany. After graduating from the Institute of Design, and gaining valuable work experience in several agencies and studios, they decided to set up their own studio in 2009. The Open Studio is a multi-disciplinary studio for visual communication that combines a design studio, a gallery and an advertising agency. It found its home in a small storefront with a tiny shop window, which is the perfect place to work, show self-initiated work and collaborate with other designers and artists.
P
Paul Elliman
wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Elliman
See foreword p. 9
Paul Elliman is a London-based artist and designer. He designed the typeface Found Fount, derived from an ongoing collection of industrial parts in which no letterform is repeated. Elliman also engages the human voice in many of its social, technological and linguistic guises, from popular songs to public announcements and radio broadcasts. Sirens Taken for Wonders, a project commissioned for the New York biennial Performa09, initiated a series of discussions about the coded language of the city’s emergency vehicle sirens. Paul has exhibited widely in venues such as Tate Modern in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, New York’s New Museum for Contemporary Art, and APAP in Anyang, Korea.
Pesca Salada
P 172
During the daytime, Barcelonabased Pol Viladoms Claverol works as an architect, while Maria Beltran Marín organizes events and conferences. In their spare time, however, they work as graphic designers and photographers under the moniker Pesca Salada.
Peter Crnokrak and Karin von Ompteda
P 179, K 136
Peter Crnokrak is a London-based designer and creative director of The Luxury of Protest. A primary focus of Peter’s work is data visualization, with a particular interest in the intersection of visual semiotics and data analysis. His work has been exhibited at InfoVis, bio.21, Computational Aesthetics and SIGGRAPH. The Luxury of Protest has been featured in more than 60 books and magazines, and has won a number of international design competitions, including the European Design Awards and AIGA 365. Work featured in this book includes one of Peter’s collaborations with Karin von Ompteda, alongside Karin’s solo work.
Piero Glina
P 175
Originally from Germany, Piero Glina is a Zürich-based communication designer. His specific interest is in the areas where different media and different ways of communication overlap. He gained recognition with several award-winning projects in the fields of video and printed matter, and his works have been exhibited internationally. Piero is co-founder of Telekolleg, an independent space for art and music. He also founded The Magic Shadow Boys in 2000, a group of visualists who try to bridge the gap between music and film in a live music environment. The Magic Shadow Boys have performed alongside the likes of Kraftwerk-member Karl Bartos, Âme, Carl Craig, Mark Stewart and Angie Reed.
Plasticbionic
P 178
Julien Brisson has been working as a graphic designer since 2004. Based in Nantes, France, he is driven by his passion for art and typography. In 2006, he joined Fly Designers as an art director/graphic designer, where he became involved in interactive design. He has since carried out commissions for music labels, clubs, public institutions and business societies. He also works freelance under the moniker Plasticbionic.
Pleaseletmedesign
P 176, P 177
Pleaseletmedesign (PLMD) is a graphic design studio set up in Brussels, Belgium, in 2004 by Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta. They started the studio directly after quitting school (they studied typography at ERG, Brussels), and decided to learn everything else in the field instead. In 2009, their regular collaboration with Morgan Fortems led to the creation of a second studio in Nancy, France. PLMD’s projects include graphic design, exhibition design, signage, title sequences and websites.
Post Typography
P 173, P 174, P 175
Post Typography is a Baltimorebased studio specializing in graphic design, conceptual typography and custom lettering/illustration, with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curating, design theory and vandalism. Post Typography’s work has received numerous design awards, been featured in books, and their posters are collected by highschool punk rockers and prominent designers (whom they consider equally important). In between working for clients such as the New York Times and the U.S. Green Building Council, Post Typography have authored and designed Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009). A bilingual monograph of the studio’s work was published by Pyramyd Editions as part of their design&designer book series.
Praline and RSHP Model Shop
P 170, P 171
Praline was created in 2000 by David Tanguy, fresh out of London’s Central Saint Martins. Today it is a five-strong (and growing) design studio based in London. Praline works for international clients on various projects from art direction, corporate identities, web and exhibition design through to print and book design. They have won several international awards, including the Chicago 100 Show for web design, the D&AD award for environmental design, the Fedrigoni Award for educational brochures and the Art Directors Club of New York award for corporate literature.
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R2
R 182
Lizá Ramalho and Artur Rebelo formed the design studio R2 in 1995. Based in Porto, Portugal, R2 works on projects for cultural organizations, contemporary artists and architects in areas such as visual identity, poster, book, signage, graphic installation and exhibition design. Lizá and Artur have lectured in graphic design since 1999, have co-ordinated various workshops and participated as speakers and jury members in numerous national and international events. They have been invited to a wide array of international exhibitions and their projects have been published in specialized books and design magazines. R2 have won several international awards and Lizá and Artur are both Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) members.
Rafael Farias
R 183, R 184
Rafael Farias is a graphic designer and artist from London. He gained a BA from the University for the Creative Arts in Maidstone, Kent, and now works as a freelance graphic designer. Past achievements include being shortlisted for the Penguin Design Awards and receiving a D&AD in-book award. Rafael is also a member of Bumf, an art collective that he set up with friends from university. Bumf is an ongoing, online exhibition of creative output, which involves the creation of work following rules set by others in the collective.
Raphaël Legrand
experimentationsgraphiques.blogspot.com
R 190, R 191
Raphaël Legrand graduated from ESAAB in Nevers, France, in 2002 before moving to Paris, where he now works as a freelance graphic designer. He avoids working with his computer whenever he can and enjoys all aspects of photography. He is member of the design collective Ils Se Marièrent.
Rebootlab
R 182
German designers Tim Faulwetter and Peter Werner share an interest in the dynamics of urban subcultures. It is this curiosity that has been the catalyst for their collaboration since they first met in 1998. After working together on different projects, they joined forces in 2001 and set up rebootlab.com. Since then, they have worked together on intercultural and intermediate design projects. The majority of their work focuses on developing design for interactive media, illustration and graphic design. Like the subcultures, rebootlab.com is constantly reinventing itself; it is both hideout and design laboratory at the same time.
Rick Myers
R 187
Myers Art-Utility is a design company formed in 2010, building on commissioned artwork made since 1996. Books designed by A-U have been exhibited internationally, and are included in numerous special collections such as MoMA, New York, Tate Gallery, London and Kunsthaus Zürich.
Rinzen
R 188, R 189
The Australian art and design group Rinzen is perhaps best known for the collaborative approach of its five members, forming as a result of their RMX project in 2000. Rinzen’s work, created both individually and as a collective, covers a wide range of styles and techniques, often featuring utopian alternate realities, bold, geometric designs or intricate, hand-drawn studies. ‘Play’ is a key role in their creative process, creating work that is cheerful, optimistic and celebratory. Rinzen is Steve Alexander and Rilla Alexander in Berlin; Adrian Clifford in Brisbane; Craig Redman in New York; and Karl Maier in Melbourne.
Roger Excoffon
wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Excoffon
See foreword p. 7
Roger Excoffon (1910–1983) was a French typeface designer and graphic designer. Excoffon was born in Marseilles, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and then moved to Paris for an apprenticeship in a print shop. In 1947 he formed his own advertising agency and concurrently became design director of a small foundry in Marseille called Fonderie Olive. Later he co-founded the prestigious Studio U+O (a reference to Urbi et Orbi). Excoffon’s best-known typefaces are Mistral and Antique Olive; the latter he designed in 1962–1966. Air France was one of Excoffon’s largest and most prestigious clients. The airline continues to use a customized variant of Antique Olive in its graphic identity. Excoffon’s faces have an organic vibrancy not found in similar sans-serif types of the period. His typefaces gave voice to an exuberant body of contemporary French and European graphic design.
Rowland Scherman
R 180, R 181
Rowland Scherman was born in New York in 1937. He studied art at Oberlin College when he realized he wanted to be a photographer. He served as the first photographer for the Peace Corps in 1961, helping to give the newly formed agency its image. Rowland went freelance in 1964. His work has been published on the covers and in the pages of Life, Time, Paris Match, Newsweek, Playboy and National Geographic. While living in the UK, he photographed the alphabet in human form – Love Letters – the project featured in this book. In 1968, he won a Grammy award for the cover of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, and published a photo book called Elvis is Everywhere in 1991. He currently lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He photographs the landscape and accepts portraiture assignments.
Ryan Molloy
R 185, R 186
Ryan Molloy is a freelance designer, artist, and an assistant professor of graphic design at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Prior to teaching at Eastern, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin’s design division, where he also received his MFA in design. He is an educator and inter-disciplinary designer, having practised in the fields of architecture and graphic design. His graphic design work has received numerous awards, including an ADC Young Guns Award. His work has been exhibited internationally including at the OneDotZero film festival in 2008.
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s3studio
S 212
Graphic designer Maxime Archambault graduated from CEGEP du Vieux Montreal, Canada, and now runs Montreal-based s3studio (aka S.3). Prior to setting up S.3 in 2005, he worked full-time developing designs for the fashion industry, including work for Sims, Converse and Groggy.
Sagmeister Inc.
S 196, S 197, S 198, S 199, S 200
Stefan Sagmeister, a native of Austria, received his MFA in graphic design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and, as a Fulbright Scholar, a Masters from the Pratt Institute in New York. He formed the New York-based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed identities and graphics for Viacom, Warner Brothers, Bertelsmann as well as non-profit organizations such as TrueMajority and OneVoice. His work has been nominated five times for the Grammies and has won most international design awards. A book titled Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far was published by Abrams in 2008. Stefan lectures worldwide on design and branding.
Sakis Kyratzis
S 210
Sakis Kyratzis was born and raised in Greece. He is a designer, photographer and interaction designer, working mainly with architects and the culture sector. After graduating from Central Saint Martins, London, he has worked for an architectural practice, but also undertakes freelance work. As a result, his work is quite varied: it includes projections for opera and dance performances, working with charities and community projects, designing books for photographers and websites for artists, doing promotional materials for exhibitions and the Central Saint Martins degree shows, and pursuing his own interests in photography and screenprinting. He is also an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins. Prior to his career in graphic design, he obtained an MA and a PhD in linguistics.
Satsuki Atsumi
S 203
Satsuki Atsumi was born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1978. She grew up in traditional Japanese culture, which included Chinese calligraphy. Satsuki combines her cultural background and fine art experience in her simple and conceptual designs. She moved to California in 2004, where she graduated from California State University, Long Beach.
Sean Freeman
C 54, C 55, S 210
Sean Freeman was born in Gibraltar and used to sell suits for Paul Smith. Since finishing his degree in 2007, Sean Freeman has been producing semi-photographic type treatments and illustrations for a wide range of clients. His work derives from his love for playing and his endless enthusiasm for experimenting with out-of-theordinary materials, including acrylic paint mixed with hair gel, powder, milk, ink in water, and smoke. Sean Freeman’s clients include The New York Times Magazine, VH1, Wired, HarperCollins, Computer Arts and Digital Arts.
Sean Martindale
S 192, S 193, S 194
Sean Martindale is an inter-disciplinary artist and designer currently residing in Toronto, Canada. His interventions, which frequently focus on ecological and social issues, activate public and semi-public spaces to encourage engagement. His playful work questions and suggests alternate possibilities for existing sites, infrastructures and materials found in urban environments. Often intentionally ephemeral and encountered by accident, his interventions engage others in city spaces.
Sebastian Gagin
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Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, graphic designer Sebastian Gagin graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 2009. He takes pictures, plays in a band, draws, and tries to get himself involved in as many independent design projects as possible.
Sebastian Lemm
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Sebastian Lemm, a native of Germany, relocated to New York City in 2000 after graduating from Berlin University of the Arts (MFA equivalent). Sebastian works as an independant graphic designer and visual artist in Brooklyn.
Sharon Pazner
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Sharon Pazner was born in Kenya and spent her childhood in Jerusalem and in Washington, D.C. Sharon studied architecture in Jerusalem in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and at the Ecole d’Architecture, Paris, from where she graduated in 2001. Since then she has resided in Israel. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Shotopop
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Shotopop was launched by Carin Standford and Casper Franken – both graduates of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. After relocating to the UK, they started freelancing and did Shotopop work in any spare time. Eventually they found that their own work was taking up all their time. They are now represented by Valerie Oualid and Wizz in France, from whom they get a large proportion of their work.
Simone Stecher
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Simone Stecher grew up in South Tyrol, Italy. She studied graphic design at the University of Wales, Newport.
Siobhan Tarr
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Freelance mosaic artist Siobhan Tarr was born and grew up in England. She then lived in Australia before moving to Germany, where she has lived since 1993 in the countryside between Hamburg and Luebeck. Siobhan’s work has been exhibited internationally.
Start
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Start is a collective, the vision of Phil Robson and Mat Carlot. Originally from London and Paris, they met in Sydney, Australia.
Stefan G. Bucher, 344 Design
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Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344 Design, and the online drawing and storytelling experiment dailymonster.com. His monsters have invaded computer screens all over the world, and their savage adolescence is chronicled in the book 100 Days of Monsters (How, 2008). Stefan has created designs for Sting, David Hockney, Tarsem, and the New York Times, and works with a whole roster of brilliant, driven clients. His time-lapse drawings appear on the rebooted TV classic The Electric Company on PBS. He is the author of All Access — The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers (Rockport, 2004) and The Graphic Eye — Photographs by Graphic Designers From Around The Globe (Chronicle/RotoVision, 2009).
Strange Attractors Design
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Strange Attractors Design is the international studio of Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop. Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and in New York City, they create innovative ideas and solutions to influence culture and commerce. The duo are also active design researchers and educators, giving lectures and workshops around the globe. In the Netherlands they teach at the Design Academy, Eindhoven, and The Royal Academy of Art, the Hague. They also teach at Parsons New School for Design in New York.
Studio for Virtual Typography
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Matthias Hillner was born in Germany, where he trained first in photography, then in visual design. He received his MA in communication art and design from the Royal College of Art in London in 2001, and his MPhil in the same subject in 2007. Having worked for various design agencies in London, Matthias founded his Studio for Virtual Typography in 2005. This business development was supported by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and the National Film and Television School in Britain. Matthias also works as a senior lecturer in graphic design at the University of Hertfordshire in England.
Studio Lundsager
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Studio Lundsager was set up by designer and art director Mikkel Lundsager Hansen. After finishing his BA in Denmark, he moved to London to complete his Masters in communication design at Central Saint Martins. After working as a freelancer on a range of projects, he joined the team at the prestigious design company Stylorouge, specializing in design for music. Mikkel now lives and works in London.
Studio Output
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Studio Output was set up in 2002 by three partners: Rob Coke, Dan Moore and Ian Hambleton. It is now a team of 13 run across two studios in London and Nottingham. Studio Output work on everything from branding and campaigns to websites and motion graphics. Their clients include Arts Council England, Sony PlayStation, the BBC, Ministry of Sound, Nokia and HMV.
Studio Xavier Encinas
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Xavier Encinas is a French art director living and working in Paris, France. His work is focused on typography, editorial design and print collaterals. He is the design director of French fashion magazine Under The Influence and Canadian culture magazine The Lab. He is also the founder of the blog Swiss Legacy.
Stylorouge
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Stylorouge is an independent creative consultancy with more than 25 years’ experience in commercial media. They work in the areas of graphic design and art direction, advertising, film and television, photography and multimedia. Stylorouge was founded by Rob O’Connor, who is the creative driving force of the studio. Rob is a graduate of Brighton Art College who started work as a designer/art director at Polydor Records. Within three years he had made the break and started Stylorouge from an uncompromising desire to create unique, effective design. It is Rob’s enthusiasm for diversity that has led the business to expand its repertoire of services to all forms of new media, and in doing so has earned him a reputation as an art director and as a film and video director. He has been a visiting lecturer and external assessor at various art colleges.
Supermundane
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Supermundane is the pseudonym of Rob Lowe, who was born in the Midlands, England. Having worked in graphic design for more than 12 years, he has become known as an illustrator, art director, typographer and graphic artist. His graphic art, which depicts a utopian world of organic shapes and beasts displaying hope, melancholy and beauty, has been published and exhibited worldwide including several solo exhibitions. He is the creative director of the quarterly alternative children’s magazine Anorak, and art director of the food quarterly Fire & Knives. He lives and works in London.
Superscript2
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Founded in 2006 in Lyon, France, by Pierre Delmas Bouly and Patrick Lallemand, Superscript2 is a graphic design studio that outputs a variety of graphic design media including publishing (books, monographs, catalogues, magazines and posters), typography and digital media (websites and interactive installations). Since 2006, the studio has developed and produced a typographic magazine called Ink.
Sveta Sebyakina
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Sveta Sebyakina is a graphic designer, type designer and art director at the Republica design studio in Moscow. The studio works on a variety of projects including identity, branding and graphic design.
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Thijs Verbeek
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Thijs Verbeek was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After turbulent years at school he decided to go to the Art Academy in 2000. He studied graphic design at the HKU in Utrecht and graduated in 2005. He then held internships at studio Anthon Beeke, Swip Stolk, Lex Reitsma and Paulina Matusiak. He works hard to combine commissioned projects with free experiments.
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Underware’s Type Workshop
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Underware was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki. They are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam. Together with Donald Beekman and Liza Enebeis, they set up the radio channel Typeradio in 2004. Underware also holds workshops at various academies and conferences worldwide. These workshops can be followed in real time online. The often spectacular output of these workshops has been published widely.
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Vaughan Oliver
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Independent record label 4AD’s identity was designed in 1980, and has been maintained by Vaughan Oliver and his collaborators for more than 25 years. Initially a collaboration with photographer Nigel Grierson, they were then called 23 Envelope. Nigel left in 1988. Supported by Chris Bigg since 1988, Oliver and Bigg’s collaborative work is credited to studio v23 – the founding of which was the result of their creative partnership being formalized in 1998. Specializing in work for the music industry, their collaboration has attracted commissions for company identities, magazine design, books and book cover design, special print projects, print advertising, and promotional campaigns and film direction. A highly successful retrospective of Vaughan Oliver’s work in Nantes, France, in 1992 resulted in shows in Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, the UK and Athens. Vaughan’s work has been collected for London’s Victoria and Albert Museum archives, and is on permanent exhibition in the museum’s Twentieth Century Gallery. Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures, a design monograph by Rick Poynor, was published in 2000, and Vaughan Oliver and v23 Poster Designs was published in 2005. Vaughan is based in Epsom, England. He teaches at the University for the Creative Arts in Epsom and also gives lectures in the UK and abroad.
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Wilfrid Wood
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Wilfrid Wood was born in London and grew up in Sussex, UK. He graduated from Central Saint Martins. After college he worked for a publishing company, then for the TV programme Spitting Image, a satirical show featuring puppets of public figures, as a head builder. He now concentrates almost entirely on 3D work; heads, figures and some lettering. His studio is in Hackney Wick. When he is not working on commissions, he creates self-initiated pieces that are shown on his website or at exhibitions.
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Xavier Encinas
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See Studio Xavier Encinas for biography.