Milton Glaser received his training at the Cooper Union Art School in New York and studied etching under a Fulbright Scholarship with the late Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, Italy. He is co-founder of Push Pin Studios, a member of the faculty at the School of Visual Arts and at Cooper Union. He has written numerous…

Meeting with Mike Tesch is like communicating with a spirited, soft-spoken, gray-bearded philosopher in a disconcertingly dark corner office. Blinds drawn, the only light comes from a harsh table lamp that glares out from a desk crammed with storyboards, reels, and books ranging from Eisenstadt to Ogilvy. “I was a very insecure and protected kid.…

As Director of Typography for Mergenthaler Linotype, he managed the production of more than a thousand typefaces. In 1981, he and Matthew Carter co-founded Bitstream, the first all-digital type company. And in 2000, Parker joined David Berlow and Roger Black at the Font Bureau as a consultant, type historian, and type designer.     In…

The Truth About Mike Hughes Mike Hughes is not what he seems. To the world, he is a rare and talented writer and an even more skilled creative director, an icon of advertising. I’ve known the man for thirty-two years now and I love him dearly, but as he prepares to receive this singular and…

Mike Tesch squeezes only primary colors out of paint tubes. He never mixes complimentary pigments. His palette includes no tints or shades, no subtle hues or grey values. Armed with Magic Markers to render a layout or storyboard in his primitive style, his color spectrum is RGB with few additions. Nothing to dilute impact. For…

Michael Bierut used to open his slide lectures with a pair of maps that demonstrated his geographic connection to his then boss, hero and mentorMassimo Vignelli. Vignelli came from Milan, Italy; Bierut came from Parma, Ohio. This little joke speaks volumes. The elegant Vignelli is an architect by training, a rationalist and formalist, a designer…

Mr. Sackheim, Harry Scherman and Robert K. Haas in 1926 founded the Book-of-the-Month Club, the nation’s first direct-mail book club. Eleven years earlier, Mr. Sackheim had formed a New York advertising firm in partnership with Mr. Scherman Two years after the book club was founded, Mr. Sackheim sold his interest, moved to Cleveland and went…

“The fruits of your talent and ability are nothing short of genius. As one of the few designers who has drawn typefaces for metal, photo, and digital medium, the substance of your designs is legendary. The typefaces you create combine indisputable beauty and relevance to the real-world of graphic communication in such a manner that…

Massimo and Lella Vignelli had a profound effect on the way people interact with urban design, starting with the iconic signage of the New York City subway system in 1978. The Vignellis created corporate identity that included American Airlines, Bloomingdales and Benetton.     Their complete oeuvre, product design, furniture and interiors design has been…

Born in Milano in 1931, Massimo Vignellistudied architecture there and in Venice, and since then has worked with his wife Leila, an architect, in the field of designfrom graphics to products, from furniture to interiors. Based in New York since 1965, their work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the permanent collections…