Philip B. Meggs was born in 1942 in Florence, South Carolina. He began his career at age 16, hand setting metal type after school, and developed a great love for the types and the letterforms he printed. An avid reader who pored over the words and illustrations in books and magazines, he also spent many…

Philip Bernard Dusenberry (April 28, 1936 – December 29, 2007) was an American advertising executive for the BBDO advertising agency. Dusenberry was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1936, and attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then Emory & Henry College in Virginia. He gained his first experience in advertising when he was…

Paula Scher plunged into the New York design world in the early 1970s, a moment when progressive art directors, illustrators, and graphic designers, as well as architects and product designers, were drawing energy and ideas from the parking lots of Las Vegas, the Factory ofAndy Warhol, the creative boutiques of Madison Avenue, and the tragi-comedy…

Paula Green is a pioneer among women in advertising, best known for writing the lyrics to the “Look for the Union Label” song for ILGWU and the Avis motto, “We Try Harder.” She began her career working as a copywriter for Seventeen Magazine; after two years helping boost the young magazine’s image and trying to…

Scher has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991. She began her career as an art director in the 1970s and early ’80s, when her eclectic approach to typography became highly influential. In the mid-1990s her landmark identity for The Public Theater fused high and…

Paul Daviss restless naturewhich reveals itself in the variety of visual approaches and problems he has chosen to explore in his career as an artist, graphic designer, and art directormay trace its origins to his pioneer ancestors. The son of a Methodist preacher from Texas and grandson of a Kansas newspaperman, Davis grew up in…

“I awoke one morning and found myself famous,” Byron said. How did I get to be famous, the famous askseldom sure of what it all is. There often is an elegant insouciance that comes with greatness. Paul Smith is cast out of that classic mold. He was a Renaissance agency man long before the concept…

The human animal discovered soon after it was perched up high on the evolutionary ladder that languishing on the “grunt and point” rung of communications was hardly a suitable posture for a sapient species. Eventually, a rather involved way of saying what had to be said was devised. At various stages of his advancing sophistication,…

Paul Rand (Born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929-1932), the Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933-1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style…

Paul Standard (May 19, 1896 – January 1, 1992) was an American calligrapher and author, who immigrated from Russia in 1903. His books included: Calligraphy’s Flowering, Decay and Restoration, Society of Typographic Arts, 1947 Our Handwriting, 1947 Arrighi’s Running Hand, 1979