April GreimanApril Greiman (born 1948) is a highly influential contemporary designer. She is recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool starting in 1984 when she bought a new Macintosh and, to a lesser extent, for introducing the New Wave aesthetic to the United States.
Her work evolved from her graduate education at Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland. As a student of Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart in the early 1970s, Greiman was not only influenced by the International Style, but also by Weingart’s introduction to the style later to become known as New Wave, an aesthetic less reliant on the Modernist heritage. Greiman is credited, along with early collaborator Jamie Odgers as establishing the New Wave design style to the US during the late 70s and early 80s.
Prior to the mid-80s, designers shunned computers, viewing them as challenges to the crispness of the International style. However, Greiman did not feel that this should be a limitation, and embracing the physicality of digital work in terms of pixelation, "errors" in digitization, etc.
Among many other accolades, Greiman is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.....(Wikipedia)
Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli (born 1931) is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife, Lella Vignelli. He believed that "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," and this is reflected in his broad range of work.
Massimo Vignelli has created work in a wide variety of areas, including interior design, environmental design, package design, graphic design, furniture design, and product design. His clients at Vignelli Associates have included high-profile companies such as IBM. He is also one of two founders of Unimark. He recently donated a large portion of his work to the Rochester Institute of Technology......(Wikipedia)The list of awards won by them runs into several pages - including eight honorary doctorates, US presidential award, AIGA gold medal, etc.
Jacques LangePresident - Icograda Jacques qualified with a BA (FA) Information Design Degree in 1988 from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and spent time in the television and advertising industries before joining Bluprint Design, a visual communication consultancy where he is a senior partner. Here he is responsible for strategy consulting, as well as R&D of integrated visual communication programs for a diverse client portfolio spanning the public and private sectors.Jacques has served as an Icograda Board Member since 2001, was Chairperson of the Continental Shift 2001 Icograda Congress in Johannesburg, and was President of Design South Africa from 1998-2003. He is a director of the Communication Foundation of South Africa, a member of the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa, an editorial committee member of the academic journal, Image & Text, and a steering committee member of the SABS Design Institute's Design Achievers Awards.Jacques has received many professional awards, has served on numerous adjudication and moderation panels, and has authored more than 100 articles, papers, research and consulting reports relating to visual communication. Jacques is fluent in English and Afrikaans and has traveled to over twenty countries on six continents.
Mervyn Kurlansky(Copenhagen, Denmark) Mervyn Kurlansky was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1936. He trained in London at the Central School of Art and Design and then freelanced before becoming Graphics Director of Planning Unit, the design consultancy service of Knoll International. In 1969 he joined Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes and in 1972 co-founded Pentagram from which he resigned in 1993 to live and work in Denmark.His clients have included multinational corporations, cultural establishments and educational institutions throughout the world. He has won a number of important awards, including a bronze medal from the Brno Biennale of Graphic Design, a gold award from the Package Designers Council, silver awards from the Designers and Art Directors Association, a silver award from the New York Art Directors Club, a gold award from Japan's Minister of Trade and Industry, the Gustav Klimt prize 1995 and the Danish IG design prize 1996.His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and has been featured in several publications and exhibitions worldwide. He conceived and designed the book Watching My Name Go By, a celebration of New York's colourful graffiti. He was also a co-author of four books about Pentagram.
Russell Kennedy(Melbourne, Australia) Russell is a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator of Visual Communication at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is an academic and practitioner of both graphic design and filmmaking. Before joining Monash in 1994, he was the principal of Russell Kennedy Design, a corporate identity consultancy, and co-director of Onset Productions, a motion picture and documentary company.Russell is a member of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) and actively promotes a network interface between design education and industry. An international lecturer, Russell is often invited to assist other educational institutions within the Oceania/Asian region - he is currently an international examiner/moderator for both Temasek Design School, Singapore and Wanganui School of Design at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has been active in the development of the Icograda Education Network and the deployment and promotion of worldwide educational exchange initiatives.
Richard Grefé(New York, United States) Richard Grefé's experience is in the development of institutions that serve social purposes. His passion is design. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College in Economics, (where he also studied book design) and Stanford, where he received an MBA. While he began his career setting type by hand, he has since been a political analyst in Asia, a writer for Time magazine on business and the economy, a public policy and urban design consulting firm director, and a manager of strategic planning and legislative strategy for public broadcasting in Washington. He joined the AIGA in 1995. A humanist and internationalist, he has lived in Munich, Bristol (England), Lausanne, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, New York, San Francisco and Washington.
Halim Choueiry(Doha, Qatar) Originally from Lebanon, Halim Choueiry is a design educator and practitioner based in Qatar. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Having obtained a Bachelor's and two Master's degrees, he is undertaking a PhD in Design at Brighton University in the United Kingdom. Halim also runs his own design studio, Cinnamon, which specialises in cultural patterning identification, visual development of bilingual corporate identities, and the simultaneous typographic representation of Latin-based languages and Arabic.In addition to design consultancy, Halim publishes Comma, a quarterly pan-Arab graphic design magazine. He has won several national and international design competitions and has extensive experience in judging for student competitions and advertising awards. His involvement in international events includes conducting design conferences and chairing Creative Nights, a workshop series held throughout the Arab countries. He is dedicated to bringing about changes in the approach and look of graphic design in the Middle East and the Gulf region.
Veejay Archary(Johannesburg, South Africa) Veejay is a founding partner of Herdbuoys McCann-Erickson, which was the first black advertising and design company to open a practice in South Africa in 1991.He has created some of the more memorable design moments in South Africa's democratic history including the new corporate identity for the national carrier, South African Airways and the imagery and identity for the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a commission to deal with South Africa's turbulent past and voting system. He has also created the voting system for the new government, the ballot paper for the first democratic elections and designed all the voter education campaigns.Ten of his anti-apartheid and 'How to Vote' posters are in the permanent display of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and his 'Dance Theatre of Harlem' poster is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute in New York.He currently advises the South African government on design issues and creates all of the presidential inauguration imagery in addition to personally advising the First Lady on branding and design for all of the President's social projects.
David Berman(Ottawa, Canada)) David Berman has over 20 years of experience in graphic design and communications and has worked extensively in the adaptation of printed materials for electronic distribution, including Web design and software interface development. As an expert speaker, graphic designer, communications strategist, public speaker, typographer and consultant, his professional work has brought him to over 10 countries in the past few years. His clients include IBM, the International Space Station, the Canadian Government, the World Bank, and the Aga Khan Foundation. David's work includes award-winning projects in the application of plain writing and design.
David has worked to establish a code of ethics that embraces social responsibility for graphic designers throughout Canada. The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada ratified his draft nationally in May 2000. He served as President of the first elected board of the Association of Graphic Designers of Ontario, North America's first accredited graphic design organization, from 1997 to 1999. He led the development of the association's General Bylaw and Rules of Professional Conduct and authored Ontario's accreditation examination section on ethics and professional responsibility. He has served as the National Ethics Chair for Graphic Design in Canada since 2002.
Don Ryun Chang(Seoul, South Korea) Don Ryun Chang was born to diplomat parents and grew up on five continents - Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa. He was educated at the University of British Columbia in Canada, the Parsons School of Design, and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Don then worked for several organizations such as Nara Advertising, Design Focus in Korea, Steiner & Co. in Hong Kong, and was Creative Director for the Infinite Group. Don founded DC&A in 1991, which later became one of the leading identity companies in Asia, with corporate identity clients such as the Shilla Hotel, the Maeil Business Group, M.net Television, and brand identities such as Sunpower Battery, and Santa Fe Coffee. The company merged with Interbrand in July 1999 and has developed acclaimed identities for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Korea Telecom, and Shinhan Bank. Don has received numerous international design awards from prestigious organisations such as the Brno and Warsaw Poster Biennale, and the Type Directors Club. Don lectures widely on branding and is currently Department Chair of Visual Communication Design at Hongik University in Seoul. He has served as a Vice President of the Visual Information Design Association of Korea (VIDAK) and was the Executive Organizing Director for the 2000 Icograda Millennium Congress in Seoul
Ruth Klotzel(São Paulo, Brazil) Born to European immigrant parents in São Paulo, Ruth spent several years of her childhood in Chicago and New York, and part of her adolescence in Italy. Since graduating from Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo (School of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo University) in 1982, she has worked as a graphic designer on projects for public and private companies, and in the education sector. Ruth is head of the design office Estudio Infinito, and is a teacher of visual communication, both at Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (School of Architecture and Urbanism of Armando Álvares' Penteado Foundation) and at Faculdade Senac de Comunicação e Arte (Senac College of Communication and Arts). She was a co-founder in 1989 of the Associação dos Designers Gráfi cos in Brazil (ADG-Brazil), and has served four terms as its Director. Since 2003, she is also one of the directors of Mundaréu, a non-profit organisation aiming to create income-generation activities for people otherwise excluded from the formal job market - by training them to produce and sell handcrafted products in line with the principles of fair trade. Aside from her own design practice and teaching activities, Ruth has participated in numerous juries, events, and publications in Brazil and abroad and is active with events and committees of ADG-Brazil.
Dashrath Patel(Ahmedabad, India)
Dashrath Patel, a leading Indian artist and designer, has worked and moved among some of the 'giants' of contemporary art. He was first given a camera by Henri-Cartier Bresson, studied architecture with Buckminster Fuller, worked musically with John Cage and worked in design and design-education with Charles and Ray Eames, to name but a few. He was part of the faculty who established theNational Institute of Design in Ahmedabad . He spent 19 years at NID during which time he designed and coordinated a series of Festivals of India. These were large-scale exhibition installations aimed at projecting India's profile abroad. Patel then went to Sewapuri, which is a rural design school based upon Gandhian principles, where he has concentrated on teaching design workshops. (source: www.tajmahalfilm.com)
Piyush Pandey(Mumbai, India)
Piyush Pandey is the Group President and National Creative Director of Ogilvy and Mather India. Piyush Pandey has been named the most influential man in Indian advertising three years in a row by The Economic Times, India's premier business paper. Under his leadership, O&M India has won a dozen Lions. And, in 2004, he became the first Asian to be the president of the Cannes jury. A Hong Kong-based media group voted Mr Pandey Asia's Creative Person of the Year in 2002, and O&M India is ranked among the most creative of its offices worldwide.Mr Pandey is credited with developing a new style of Indian advertising, which is earthy, visual-led and celebrates the Indian vernacular.
Sudarshan Dheer (Mumbai, India)
Sudarshan Dheer is the well known, prolific and outstanding graphic designer from India. He established his own design workshop Graphic Communication Concepts in 1973 to specialise in corporate communication projects on: Corporate Identity Programmes, Corporate Literature, Corporate Packaging and Signage Systems. Sudarshan Dheer is the editor of the book ‘Symbols, Logos and Trademarks: 1,500 Outstanding Designs from India’. He has several international and national awards for his work and achievements
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