Whilst most designers slave away with little recognition, other than our clients cheque or the occasional award, there are some designers that have gained international fame for their work. Are we bitter and twisted?
Well... possibly. But to show that we harbour no hard feelings, we focus on some of them here.
In all seriousness, few of these designers are celebrities, in the normal sense of the word - certainly outside of the design community (with the possible exception of Jonathan Ives - Apple's designer of the iPod and the recent iMacs). And most of these designers have become famous for the influence of their work, rather than as the result of any kind of personality cult.
Indeed, some of them are important enough to have had an influence on the very meaning and interpretation of the history of design itself. If you have any suggestions or comments about any of our featured artists, please feel free to let us know.
Ron Arad
Ron Arad is a well known furniture designer, artist and architectural designer. Ron Arad's work has been exhibited at many major museums and galleries throughout the world and his work is in many public collections.
Giambattista Bodoni
Giambattista Bodoni was an Italian typographer, engraver, type designer and printer who lived between 1740 and 1813. Giambattista Bodoni gave his name to the series of fonts that he designed.
Neville Brody became famous in the 1980's for his typographic design work on numerous British magazines, in particular The Face and Arena. Brody used newly invented desktop publishing tools to the fullest and continues to be influential as a type designer for both print and web.
David Carson
Like Neville Brody, typographer and graphic designer David Carson became influential in the late 1980's and 1990s for experimental typeface designs. David Carson's designs were featured heavily in surfing and skateboarding magazines.
A tribute to other self-taught designers, David Carson broke most of the rules of design and typography, a process that was made easy with the use of desk top publishing programs, such as Pagemaker, QuarkXpress and Illustrator. He experimented with overlapping and distorted fonts and intermixed these with striking photographic images.
There is an ongoing discussion of David Carson in the Design Talkboard forums.
William Caslon
A typeface designer and engraver, William Caslon lived in England between 1692 and 1766. William Caslon's typefaces became extremely popular in the mid-to-late 18th century and were used for many important printed works. A version of Caslon typeface was used for printing the first edition of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser is one of the most famous American graphic designers of the 20 century. Milton Glaser is the designer behind some of the most famous popular icons, including the 'I love New York' campaign for the New York State Department of Commerce and, in particular, numerous advertising posters, record covers and soup cans.
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