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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

ALAIN GILLES Portrait by Lydie Nesvadba Design as a second life: After a brief stint in the financial world, Gilles returned to study industrial design, at the urging of his wife, in France. He has taught architectural history, theory, and design in the UK, U.S., JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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Ken Garland Was Graphic Design’s Moral Compass

Eye on Design

Although he was part of an influential and widely-lauded generation of British designers who rose to prominence in sixties London, it is safe to say that Ken was one of a kind. . In fact, the original manifesto has inspired repeats, such as the 2000 version first published by Adbusters, and a more climate-crisis focused edition from 2020.

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How IBM revolutionized corporate America with design

UX Collective

s first major step towards his goal of reinventing IBM with a design focus was to hire Eliot Noyes as the company’s first design consultant. He was a well-respected architect and industrial designer with a distinguished career, including his work as curator of industrial design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

The Package Design Book. Published in English, French and German, The Package Design Book is any packaging designer’s bible. He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. A fascinating look at the possible future of design. Buy the book.

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35 Famous Graphic Designers You Need To Know

Shillington

Nyoni has worked as an illustrator and art director in the South African advertising industry whilst also moonlighting as poster artist R!OT. Under this guise, his work has been published both locally in South Africa and internationally in the US, UK, Spain, Croatia, Germany and Mexico. Kate Moross. Leta Sobierajski. Paula Scher.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

He shares analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media. Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann. Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 by Gerda Breuer. Why are there so few women in the history of design?

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdspring

Notable Clients: Snapchat, 7Up, The Gap, BMW, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, NYTimes Magazine, Lou Reed, Jay-Z, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Random House Publishers, the AIGA, Autodesk, Levis, Adobe. Look back at the last two or three decades of graphic design. The design studio has a reputation for bold design choices.