Thursday, May 7, 2009

Greiman, Chwast and Glaser

April Greiman is a contemporary designer from the 80's. She's responsible for introducing the New Wave art movement to the United States and is well known for her knowledge in various mediums; computer graphics, hand graphics, architecture and video. One influential aspect of April is that when she first began her career in design, she did everything by hand due to the lack of technology in the early 80's. She then made a remarkable transition into the computer generated graphics and excelled in both. Her issue of the Design Quarterly entitled Does it Make Sense is considered to be a major turning point in the evolution of graphic design. She played around with photography and tried to make 2D images appear 3D.

Seymour Chwast is an American graphic designer with a bit of illustration and typographer mixed in. He designed posters, food packaging and magazine covers during the 50's. He is most widely known for co-establishing Push Pin Studios. His work was very illustrated and incorporated a bit of humor in it. The images were generally flat with multiple colors. His typography is has a very Art Deco feel to it.

Milton Glaser is very remarkable contemporary graphic designer who is also described as a modern renaissance man due to understandings, visual language, conceptual thinking and illustration skills. He is the other co-founder of Push Pin Studios with Chwast, and has had his own one person show at the Modern Museum of Art in New York. Some of his famous work includes the flat Bob Dylan poster, along with the I LOVE NY logo, which was the first time the heart symbol was recognized as love. He is one of the most famous designers in modern day. 

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