David Carson

David was born September 8, 1955, Corpus Christi, Texas. He is an American graphic designer, whose unconventional style stirred up visual communication in the 1990s.Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life. He was a competitive surfer,ranked eighth in the world and a California high-school teacher when, at 26, he enrolled in a two-week commercial design class. Discovering a new calling, he briefly enrolled at a commercial art school before working as a designer at a small surfer magazine, Self and Musician. He then spent four years as a part-time designer for the magazine Transworld Skateboarding, which enabled him to experiment. His characteristic chaotic spreads with overlapped photos and mixed and altered type fonts drew both admirers and detractors.In 1989 Carson became art director at the magazine Beach Culture. Although he produced only six issues before the journal folded, his work there earned him more than 150 design awards. Later on Carson opened his own company called David Carson Design, with offices in New York City and San Diego, California. The firm was instantly successful and attracted well-known, wealthy corporate clients.

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Neville Brody

Neville Brody was born in London in 1957. He attended the London College of Printing from 1976-79 before becoming a freelance designer, mainly of record sleeves. In 1981 he became designer of The Facemagazine, where his typographic experiments won international acclaim. He went on to art direct Arena, Per Lui  and Actuel. A book of his collected designs, The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, was published in 1988. He is an enthusiastic advocate of computer-based design and in 1991 helped to launch Fuse, a disk-based interactive’ magazine of new typefaces.

Alexey Brodovitch

Alexey Brodovitch is remembered today as the art director of Harper's Bazaar for nearly a quarter of a century.He played a major role in introducing the United States to a radically simplified, “modern” graphic design style. Through his teaching, he created a generation of designers sympathetic to his belief in the primacy of visual freshness and immediacy. Fascinated with photography, he made it the backbone of modern magazine design, and he fostered the development of an expressionistic, almost primal style of picture-taking that became the dominant style of photographic practice in the 1950s.Brodovitch is virtually the model for the modern magazine art director. He did not simply arrange photographs, illustrations and type on the page; he took an active role in conceiving and commissioning all forms of graphic art, and he specialized in discovering and showcasing young and unknown talent. 

 

Tibor Kalman

Tibor Kalman July 6, 1949 was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine.Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. He later became the supervisor of their in-house design department. Kalman also worked as creative director of Interview magazine in the early 1990s.Kalman became founding editor-in-chief of the Benetton-sponsored Colors magazine in 1990. In 1993, Kalman closed M&Co and moved to Rome, to work exclusively on the magazine.In 1997, Kalman re-opened M&Co and continued to work until his death in 1999 in Puerto Rico, shortly before a retrospective of his graphic design work entitled Tiborocity opened its U.S. tour at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

Gail Anderson

Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator, she is a partner, with Joe Newton, at Anderson Newton Design currently.She started out early in her career working at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books. For nine years she worked as a Creative director of Design at SpotCo, an advertising agency that creates artwork for Broadway and institutional theater. She also worked at Rolling Stone magazine as a designer and deputy art director, and later the magazines senior art director. She has received many awards from major design organizations. She is also a co-author on many books with Steven Heller. She also teaches many different programs at the School of Visual Arts MFA. She received the 200lifetime achievement medal from AIGA.

Fred Woodward

Fred Woodward was born in 1953 in Noxapater, Mississippi. In a tiny town with approximately 500 people. He attended Mississippi state university. He is best known for his legendary work in the Rolling Stone magazine, where he worked for 14 years. He choreographed the typography with the photography, which became Rolling Stone’s visual signature. He has a way of breaking up the letters so the reader is forced to read the titles in a specific way. Works as a design director at GQ since 1991 and also president of society of publication design and the youngest member in the New York art director Hall of Fame.