Designer Research Writing
Humanities
These are some very influential designers of the past and present and seeing their designs will help you with our up-coming projects. Use the work of these designers as inspiration before designing!
List of Designers:
| Milton Glaser | Margo Chase |
| Bradbury Thompson | Saul Bass |
| Rick Poyner | Lars Muller |
| Ellen Lupton | Shepherd Ferry |
| Buro Destruct | Leslie Savan |
| Michael C. Place | Otmar Hoefer |
| Philippe Apeloig | Bruno Steinert |
| Chip Kidd | Tobias Frere-Jones |
| Fred Woodward | Jonathan Hoefler |
| Paula Scher | Wim Crouwel |
| Michael Vanderbyl | Massimo Vignelli |
| Erik Spiekermann | Matthew Carter |
| Michael Beirut | Jeff Kleinsmith |
| Wally Olins | Tibor Kalman |
| David Carson | Stefan Sagmeister |
| April Greiman | Armin Hofmann |
| Rudy VanderLans | Pentagram |
| Carlos Segura | Leaster Beall |
| Paul Rand | Neville Brody |
| Abram Games | MetaDesig |
- Take some time to look at as many of these designers as you can. See which styles are interesting to you. Which work moves you? You can go on-line and “google” them. Another good site is here (do a search for various designers): http://designarchives.aiga.org/ (Links to an external site.)
- Choose two designers to profile. Write 2 paragraphs about each designer. One paragraph about the designer and one paragraph about why it is that you chose them. What do you like about their work. Include 2-3 samples of each designer’s work.
- Upload both DESIGNER PROFILES as one file. You should have a minimum of 4 paragraphs. (two for each designer profiled)
