Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Six Designes Mentioned by Neville Brody

Gerard Unger


Gerard Unger is a graphic designer and typographer who has designed stamps, coins, magaines, newspapers, books, logos, corporate identities, annual reports, and many typesfaces. He was born in Arnhem, Netherlands and studied graphic design, typography, and type design at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, in Amsterdam, and then later became a professor there until January of 2007. He now teaches at the University of Reading, UK. He has recied the H.N.Werkman-Prize, Gravisie-Prize, Maurits Exschede-Prize, and Sota Award. 

Barry Deck
Barry Deck is a typeface and graphic designer, know to work with distorted typefaces, and working with Pepsi, Reebok, Nickelodeon, and VH1. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He graduated from Northern Illinois Uniersity and went to work for Lipmon & Simmons in Chicago in 1986 as a junior designer. Shortly after he worked as a graphic designer fro Kim Abrams Design. In 1987 he enrolled at the California Institute of Arts. Then moving to New York in 1992.  

Paul Elliman
Paull Elliman is a self-taught designer. He has taught at many universities including Central St. Martins School of At, the University of East London, Univeristy of Texas at Austin, and School of Art at Yale University, New Haven. He works with a range of people, such as; product and graphic designers, engineers, architects, and cycling activists. He also has a magazine column in IDEA magazine.


Rick Vermeulen
Rick Vermeulen is a graphic designer, born in Schiedam, the Netherlands in 1950. He studied graphic design at the Rotterdam Academy until 1972, and then landed a job working for Bert Bakker, a publisher. He then worked as editor of Hard Werken Magazine, along with four other men, making an impact on the nation. The group of five then formed a design studio name Hard Werken. In 1994, the studio being in financial trouble, moved to Amsterdam and joined forces with a packaging design company Ten Cate Bergmans, changing their name to Inizio. He then moved to the US and taught at Canbrook, Cal Arts, and North Carolina State Unveristy. He moved to Los Angeles for two years, then moving back to the Netherlands.

Phil Bicker
Phil Bicker is known as a creative director, designer, and photo editor. He made careers in editorial, advertising, fashion and an art director. He started as an art director at The Face in London, then directed Creative Camera Magazine, Vogue Hommes International, where he encouraged fine art photographers to create fashion stories. He has worked for well-known companies such as Clavin Klein, BBH, and The Fader. He finished his career working between Magnum Photos and Time Magazine.

Tobias Frere-Jonas
Tobias Frere-Jonas was born in New York in 1970. He was born into a family of writers and printers, so naturally became a designer of typefaces. At age 14 he was already exhibiting paintings, sculptures, and photos in New York galleries. He attended Rhode Island Schoo of Design, and graduated in 1992. He got a job at Font Bureau, and was a senior designer there for several years. He created three fonts with them, reactor, Fibonacci, and Microphone. He then taught at Yale University of Art to teach a typeface design class, but in 1999 returned to New York. He was awarded with the Gerrit Noordzij prize in 2006 and AIGA medal for exceptional achievements in the field of design in 2013.

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