Ashley Bourque- Cloutier
Some INFLUENTIAL people
Stefan Sagmeister
- 1962 Born in Bregenz, Austria. His parents own a fashion retailing business. Educated at a local engineering school, then at a college in nearby Dornbirn.
- 1981 Moves to Vienna. Accepted on his second attempt to study graphic design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts.
- 1984 Having designed posters for Vienna’s Schauspielhaus theatre with the Gruppe Gut collective, creates the posters for a successful campaign to save the Ronacher music hall from demolition.
- 1985 Graduates with a first class degree and a $1,000 prize from the City of Vienna.
- 1987 Arrives in New York with a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute.
- 1990 Returns to Vienna for community service as an alternative to military conscription. Works in a refugee centre. Posters for Nickelsdorf jazz festival.
- 1991 Moves to Hong Kong and lands a job with ad agency, Leo Burnett.
- 1992 Controversy over Sagmeister’s bum-bearing 4As awards poster.
- 1993 Returns to New York (via Sri Lanka) to work for Tibor Kalman at M&Co. Six months later, Kalman closes M&Co and Sagmeister opens his own studio.
- 1994 Creates identity for his brother, Martin’s jeans stores, Blue. Nominated for a Grammy Award for the cover for H. P. Zinker’s Mountains of Madness.
- 1995 Starts collaboration with David Byrne by designing the cover of his Afropea compilation album.
- 1996 First project with Lou Reed: Set the Twilight Reeling album cover. Emblazons a pair of tongues on poster for AIGA’s Fresh Dialogue talks
- 1997 Creates Headless Chicken poster for AIGA biennial conference in New Orleans and designs graphics for David Byrne’s Feelings and Rolling Stones’ Bridges to Babylon.
- 1999 Sagmeister carves the text of a poster for an AIGA lecture at Cranbrook near Detroit into his own torso.
- 2000 Takes a year off to work on experimental projects.
- 2001 Reopens studio and publishes the book, Sagmeister: Made You Look.
- 2003 Designs Once in a Lifetime boxed set for Talking Heads.
- 2004 Visiting professor in Berlin and unveils Trying to look good limits my life, series of typographic billboards.
I think that Stefan Sagmeister's work is interesting because he incorporates a very eye catching use of words, almost as if he uses typography in his designs.
Paula Scher
- born October 6, 1948, Virginia
- the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991.
- Paula Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1970
- Paula Scher moved to New York City and took her first job as a layout artist for Random House's children's book division
- In 1984 she co-founded Koppel & Scher with editorial designer and fellow Tyler graduate Terry Koppel
- During the six years of their partnership, she produced identities, packaging, book jackets, and advertising, including the famous Swatch poster
- In 1991, after the studio suffered from the recession and Koppel took the position of Creative Director at Esquire magazine, Scher began consulting and joined Pentagram as a partner in the New York office.
- in 1992, she became a design educator, teaching at the school of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.
- She received more than 300 awards from international design associations as well as a series of prizes from the American Institute of Graphic Design (AIGA), The Type Directors Club (NY), New York Art Directors Club and the Package Design Council.
- She is a select member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and her work is included in the collections of New York MoMA, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich and the Centre Georges Pompidou".
- As an artist she is known for her large-scale paintings of maps, covered with dense hand-painted labeling and information.
- She has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York for over two decades, along with positions at the Cooper Union, Yale University and the Tyler School of Art.
- Paula Scher has contributed to numerous issues of Print. Her first Print cover was with her friend Steven Heller. Together they created a parody issue in 1985, a genealogy chart of graphic design.
- In 2010, Scher designed the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park poster has presented powerful productions of The Winter’s Tale and The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pachino as Shylock. Scher’s festival promotional campaign focuses on the reminiscent language in both plays by pulling lines from each production to meet in a dimensional expressive of words and typography. This campaign was award for Print Regional Design Annual 2011.
Paula Scher manages to catch a viewers attention by her use of word disposition and contrasting colours.
charles spencer anderson
Mr Spencer Anderson successfully attempts to use a vintage style in his designs well also including vibrant colours.