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Paula Scher and Jonathan Yeo launch online courses in design and painting with the BBC

Creative Boom

Now world-renowned designer Paula Scher and portrait artist Jonathan Yeo are the latest names set to join BBC Maestro's platform. Paula Scher: Graphic Design Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. Together with BBC Maestro, you can shape the future of graphic design."

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F5: Jiminie Ha’s Book Plans, the Furniture That Changed Her Life + More

Design Milk

” Launching in 2012, with a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing, and fashion, With Projects, Inc. Jiminie is also currently the Senior Director of Graphic Design at Solomon R. Neon Green artwork in background © Sandra Mujinga Spectral Keepers, 2020.

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Ed Fella’s Flyers Blur the Lines Between Design and Art

Eye on Design

In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own lectures, in an exhibition about Surrealism and graphic design at the Moravian Gallery in the Czech Republic. Pokorny had never seen Fella’s work before; his background as a critic and curator was in fine art, not design.

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“Always Moving Under the Surface”: Organic Typography by Alex Ortiga

Design You Trust

He grew up in Udine, where he graduated as a computer expert in 2012. 2009-2010 he obtained the Adobe Photoshop Certification, and he soon started to work as graphic designer. During the academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 he was tutor of the Decoration – Contemporary Art Lab. During the S.Y.

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Remembering Bob Gill: “There’s no such thing as a bad client”

Design Week

He later studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before moving to New York. In 1960, he moved to London to work for ad agency Charles Hobson and two years later on April Fool’s Day, he set up Fletcher/Forbes/Gill along with British designers Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes.

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The Rebellious and Revolutionary Work of Designer Eiko Ishioka

Eye on Design

Born in 1938, Ishioka grew up in uptown Tokyo, raised by her father, a self-taught commercial graphic designer, and her mother, a housewife. Moving away from Shiseido’s tradition of using Art Nouveau-style illustrations, Ishioka chose a photograph of the product that took centerstage.

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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

, the gallery that Krishnamurthy ran out of a storefront in New York’s Chinatown from 2012 to 2017. centered around artists, designers, architects, musicians, curators, and writers. From left: WORKac website design; Merchandise for Fikra Graphic Design Biennial; FRONT International 2018 identity system.