Saturday, September 17, 2016

5 Designers No Longer Living


Paul Rand

Paul Rand, born as Peretz Rosenbaum, was a graphic designer from New York known for his logos. Some of his most famous and well known logos were made for bigger corporations. His most iconic logo was the one he created for IBM in 1956 which the company has used since and is their current logo. 

(Source: paul-rand.com)



Massimo Vignelli

Massimo Vignelli was a graphic designer born in Italy who is well known for his New York City Subway map which he designed and is still used today. Some of his other well known logo work is the American Airlines logo and the Bloomingdales logo. He is was a huge fan of Helvetica and used it in a large amount of his work. 





El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky is a Russian designer known for his posters and designs he made for the Soviet Union. He worked a lot with geometric shapes and many of the same colors to create his pieces. Shapes were 2D and 3D within his work. 





FHK Henrion

FHK Henrion was a designer who was born in Germany in 1914. He designed a lot of book covers in his time as a designer. He also is known for being the one to design the Quaker Corn Flakes box. 

(Source: fastcodesign.com)



Herb Lubalin

Herb Lubalin is a designer known to be on the team that founded the International Typeface Corporation, or ITC. He mostly deals with and creates different typefaces and fonts that are unique to the logos he makes. 




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