10 Amazing Graphic Designers You Must Know

There are people who have changed the world of graphic designing with their artistic skills and creative power. These are the world’s leading graphic designers who have revolutionized graphic designing and art industry.

There are many big names who have influenced graphic designers. Read on these 10 smart graphic designers that every graphic designer in Dubai must know to work on branding in Dubai.

 

Paul Rand

One of the leading graphic designers, Paul Rand is best known for creating corporate logo designs such as for IBM, Enron, Morningstar, Westinghouse, and Steve Jobs’s NeXT. He was the first graphic designer who practiced Swiss Style of graphic design. He started his career with Direction magazine. In 1972, he was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame

 

Saul Bass

Saul Bass, the American graphic designer is one of the best graphic designers to be known . He has received appreciation for designing motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. He is called a jack of all design strategies for both print design and movie animation. He was also an Academy Award winning filmmaker of Hollywood who had provided title sequences of many films.

 

Herb Lubalin

He is best known as the grandfather of typography and had worked as Art Director throughout his career. He played with letter forms and words by infusing movement. He transformed text into pictures and some meaningful messages. He had worked on Ralph Ginzburg’s three magazines Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde by creating visual beauty for these magazines. He had designed the typeface, ITC Avant Garde, Lubalin’s signature and also created Ginzburg’s magazine logogram.

 

George Lois

George Lois is best known for creating more than 92 covers for Esquire magazine. He is a prominent advertiser and Art Director who also worked for “I want my MTV” campaign. He has worked for the advertising and promotions department at CBS. He created graphics for Jiffy Lube, USA Today, ESPN, VH1, Lean Cuisine and Tommy Hilfiger. He has been induced in The Art Directors Hall of Fame, The One Club Creative Hall of Fame, along with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

 

Alexey Brodovitch

Alexey Brodovitch had an exceptional taste for graphic designing. He got fame for working as art director for fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar for 15 years i.e. from 1934 to 1958. He had been a motivational force for graphic designers for not only arranging photos, illustrations and text on the page but also for helping photographers to start their career. In 1949, he designed his own typeface and same year collaborated with publication Portfolio. Alexey Brodovitch was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in New York after his death in 1971.

 

Bradbury Thompson

Bradbury Thompson has worked for various renowned companies like  Rogers, Kellog and Stillson. He is known for his creativity of using colors, and playing up with composition of letter forms. He was an American graphic designer who worked in NYC for 60 years. He worked as art director of Mademoiselle magazine for fifteen years. He has also remained important designer of U.S. postage stamps during the middle decades of the 20th Century.

 

Milton Glaser

Known as the most celebrated graphic designer in USA, Milton Glaser founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker and there he created the I <3 NY logo that every tourist loves to wears while traveling to new York. He was a Fulbright scholar and was the first graphic designer in 2009 who receive the National Medal of the Arts award.

 

Cipe Pineles

This Austrian graphic designer Cipe Pineles made her career at Vogue, and Vanity Fair magazines. She was the first female member of the Art Directors Club in year 1943. Her artistic skills made her enter their Hall of Fame. She remained art director of magazines Charm, and Mademoiselle.

 

Lillian Bassman

The Mistress of the Darkroom, Lillian Bassman was a photographer, art director, graphic designer and painter. In 1940, photographer Richard Avedon discovered her as a graphic designer for her visual talent and continued working as photograph. She revolutionized fashion photography with her talent. At the age of 87 years old she embraced digital photography and started creating interesting effects and variations of the images she captured years ago.

 

Alvin Lustig

Alvin Lustig was an American graphic designer best known for his contributions to book designs, magazines, interiors, and textiles. He introduced principles of Modern art to graphic design that had a long-term influence on contemporary design practice. He passed away of diabetes-related complications in 1955. He was given AIGA Lifetime Achievement award in 1993.