5 Interesting (non-living) Designers

Paul Rand

1. Paul Rand was an American Graphic Designer, best known for his logo creations for popular companies such as IBM, UPS, Morningstar Inc. and many more.  His work is very simplified and catagorized as minimalistic. One of his most popular and treasured pieces was when he worked with Steve Jobs to create the logo for NeXT a computer industry. 

(Source: paulrand.com)

Robert Massin

2. Robert Massin was a French Graphic Designer as well as an art director adn typographer. He was known for his work in typography mostly for creating expressive forms. He was influenced greatly by Pierre Faucheux, who believed font should have some realtionship to the meaning of the text. This idea is portrayed in many of Massin's designs. 

(Source: http://www.eyemagazine.com)

Max Huber

3. Max Huber was a Swiss Graphic Designer. He began designer at the age of 21in Milan. He felt Milan was and adequate place for designers excelling in combining illustrations, paintings, photography and printing skills could all be utalized together. His work is known for using unframed images with typograhic elements with strips of color to create a feeling of speed. 



(Source:http://www.iconofgraphics.com)

El Lissistzky

4. El Lissistzky was a Russian Graphic Designer who also incorporated typography and photography. He created many propaganda posters for the Soviet Union in the 20th century. His stype is to experiment with production types. Using many abstract shapes as well as geometric shapes to create intresting and intricate designs.


(Source: http://www.designishistory.com)

5. Josef Muller- Brockman is another Swiss Grahphic Designer. He opened his own studio spreacilizing in graphic design as well as photography and exhibition design. He created piceses based off of  grid design. He created many posters including "Musica viva" seriews for Zurich Tonhalle. These were representations of structure and harmony of music.

(Source: http://www.modern-theory.com)