Levine Huntley Schmidt & Beaver. For 20 years it was a place where anything was possible. Someone like Tina Turner could be called a homebody. A toy car could be treated like a real car. And a real car could be treated like it really is, overloaded and backed into trashcans (to the strains of…

Alexey Brodovitch was born in Russia shortly before the close of the last century. Some 73 years later he died in the remote obscurity of a small village in the south of France. For fifty years of his professional life, most of them in the United States, he was an artist, graphic designer, art director,…

The Washington Post art critic Paul Richard, reviewing an Alexander Liberman retrospective a few years ago, made an essential point about this extraordinary man. “History lists few artists of the caliber of Liberman who have held, much less insulated their painting from, intellectually demanding full-time jobs.” Putting it another way, history lists few art directors…

Alex Bogusky joined Crispin and Porter Advertising in 1989 as an art director. He became the creative director five years later, a partner in 1997 and a co-chairman in January 2008.Under Alexs direction, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has grown to more than 700 employees, with offices in Miami, Boulder, Los Angeles and London.    …

In 1939, at the age of 23, Alex Steinweiss revolutionized the way records were packaged and marketed. As the first art director for the recently formed Columbia Records, Steinweiss saw a creative opportunity in the companys packaging for its 78 rpm shellac records. The plain cardboard covers traditionally displayed only the title of the work…

Alan Fletcher drew pictures as a kid. When it came time to choose a career, life in post-war Britain only offered him three options: go to university, join the army, or work for a bank. None of these was very appealing to him. However, he was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend illustration courses…

His black inks can look blacker than black, and he can make the untouched white of the page work for him as a henchman and a friend. He has no favorites: in a big cast, every man and every woman is drawn with equal care. And he does it with an evident pleasure that makes…

Adrian Frutiger was born on May 24th, 1928, in Unterseen near Interlaken, Switzerland. After attending school, he was a typesetter’s apprentice from 1944 to 1948 at the printing press Otto Schlaefli AG in Interlaken. After this, he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (College of Technical Arts) in Zurich for three years. In 1952, he moved to Paris…

Mr. Burns, a native of Passaic, New Jersey, began his career in graphic arts as an apprentice after he left Army service at the end of World War II. In 1952 he became director of design and typography at the Composing Room, a Manhattan typography shop. He opened his own business in 1963 and six…