R. Roger Remington has spent his formative and adult life in upstate New York (the Adirondacks and Rochester). His professional education in graphic design was in nonestablishment settings, having studied at Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He considers himself primarily a teacher who has critical interests in design studies (graphic design…

Prolific designer of more than 80 typefaces. Robert Hunter Middleton (May 6, 1898 – August 3, 1985) was an American book designer, painter, and type designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he came to Chicago at the age of ten in 1908 where he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He joined…

Phyllis Kenner Robinson (née Kenner, October 22, 1921 – December 31, 2010) was an advertising executive and copywriter who helped create numerous notable ad campaigns. She was a foundation employee of the US agency Doyle Dane Bernbach from 1949 and was instrumental in that agency’s success and growth over the next twenty years. Born in…

If one word could describe Philip Harrison Hays, it would be glamour, the old Hollywood kind. He had looks, style, and ambition, and he came of age near the end of an era when illustration still dominated advertising and publishing, and when great illustrators were stars. Born in Sherman, Texas on May 14, 1930, Phil…

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…