Shirley Hughes

She was born and grew up on the Wirral her father owned the well known apartment store TJ Hughes, she studies at Liverpool art school and in Oxford at the Ruskin School of Art, she then went on to become one of the countries best illustrators. Her first commercial illustrations were for other writers, but she went onto design her own books, her first one was Lucy and Tom's Day in 1960. One of the most loved books and best known of hers is Dogger which in 1977 won the Kate Greenaway award, her second of these was for her own adaptation of Cinderella, it was published as Ella's big chance.
The authenticity and creativeness in this picture book are outstanding to the point where you can see sense the texture of her clothes illustrated in the book all of which were designed by Shirley.

Her book Ella's Big Chance

An exhibition of her work has been held at the Ashmoleun Museum in Oxford and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. An autobiography of Shirley was published in 2002 by Bodley Head which gave an insight into the artists lifetime of illustrative work.

She is now 86 years of age and has written and illustrated hundreds of books and still has the creativity and vision which she comes on after more than 40 years of illustrating. My admiration of this great artist is immense. Her ability to turn an illustration into a theoretical allusion is outstanding this ability is epitomized in the beautiful Ella's Chance.

Johnny Hannah

He was born in Scotland in 1962 after leaving school, he gained a place to study illustration at Liverpool Art School since graduating from the Royal College of Art he has worked as an illustrator, his collaboration with Jonathan Hudson culminated in the piece for Channel 4 'The Man With The Beautiful Eyes' a short animation which went onto win a BAFTA in 2000.

Johnny enjoys success also with the his own company cakes and the press, which specializes in screen printing  In 2001 he co published The Captains Alphabet with Peter Sampson. His first book Hot Jazz Special was published by Walker books it is a creation of red hot rhymes and bold poster style art, which in 2005 was shortlisted for the V & A Museum illustration award, taking 2nd place for its beautiful illustrations.

His book Hot Jazz Special

Johnny's advertising and design work have included clients such as Vogue, New York Times and the english national opera. His most recent work is one of his illustrations for his wife's book of Poetry called Collected From The Sea.

His inspiration is drawn from music especially jazz, I admire his work it is stunningly detailed and his illustrations are beautiful.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is an internationally renowned designer, typographer, art director and consultant, he is also the founder of the highly acclaimed research studios network he is deeply involved in every aspect of their work.
He was born in London and after finishing school he successfully gained a place to study art at Hornsey School of Art and the London College of printing where he now has a place as visiting professor after college he went onto create record covers with Rocking Russian a design agency founded in the punk and new wave era. In 1980 he joined stiff records a label formed at the outset of the punk rock boom. His vision and creativity led to his appointment as an art director at fetish records an independent label where he went onto produce some of his most iconic and removable work.

In 1981 he became the art director of The Face a magazine with whom he stayed for 5 years until 1986 when he joined arena Men's style magazine. In 1988 an exhibition of his work was displayed at the V & A Museum to coincide with The Graphic Language of Neville Brody his first monograph which went on to become the worlds best selling design book.

His Book

His studio was renamed in 1994 to Research Studios at the same time of his release of his second book.
Major clients of his have included Sony PlayStation  BBC and mainstream newspapers The Guardian and The Times, his branding's have included Kenzo perfumes.
He has produced groundbreaking work for fuse by font shop a company which Brody was a partner of. His most recent work include his new book Neville Brody and exhibitions including one at the Rocker gallery in Tokyo.

He has pushed to the limit with his work not only his own visual communication but the worlds, his work as a designer is summed up as being an open minded statement only completed when the person looking at it has reached his or her own conclusion, which is the basis of Art. His work is exceptionally ground breaking which is my attraction to this great designer.

Lauren Child

She was born in November 29, 1965 in Berkshire. She is a writer and illustrator. She has written many books she is well know for her books Charlie and Lola which has also been turned into a television series. And also another of her well know book series is Clarice Bean

In her teens she attended the city and Guilds art school but she left after only a year attending instead of school she chose the working world. What she did was before her career started she became an assistant for artist Damien Hirst and started her own company of making lamp shades. Then she moved onto illustration and she wrote and her own book called Clarice Bean, That’s Me I early 1990 it did take a few years fer her to find a publisher to publish the book though in 1999.

Clarice Bean is about a five year old and she lives in a madcap family. She created the character Clarice when she was on a trip to New York. In each of the books you will find Clarice in a predicament that children can relate too. As the series continued the young Clarice has grown up and the more recent volumes take her from a picture book to a chapter book format. In new ones she tries too solve a mystery at her school the theft of a trophy she was hoping that she would win and also another mystery the disappearance of her best friend. ." A critic for Kirkus Reviews wrote that "Child not only gives Clarice a distinctive preteen voice, but captures the chaos around her with plenty of sketchy, interspersed ink drawings and collages."

Clarice Bean Utterly Me by Lauren Child

After the Clarice series she moved onto Charlie and Lola for the toddler set, Lauren tells interactions between the big brother and her little sister, this has also been made into a television series and the books are all illustrated using the stills from the series.

One of the books called I Am Too Absolutely Small for School addresses Lola's nervousness at heading off to the first day of school. The book describe the brother and sister as Lola is an opinionated and determined attitude and that Charlie has the ability to gently wooing her onto the better path through his child's eye view of the world that have made the "Charlie and Lola" books extremely popular with both parents and children.

Alan Fletcher

Is a graphic designer born on 27 September 1931, He had studied at the Hammersmith College of Art and at the Central School of Art. He also founded the design firm Fletcher/Forbes/Gill with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill they did a book called Graphic Design: A Visual Comparison. There clients included Pirelli, Penguin Books, Cunard and Olivetti. Gill left the partnership and was replaced by Theo Crosby who he met at the Central School of Art. A couple more partners joined and then became Pentagram a design company. His logo for the V&A Museum is still in use today along with the logo for Institute of Directors and also Reuters logo. A book of his designs has also been published called Beware Wet Paint by Jeremy Myerson in 1994. Alan has also written several books as well. He died in September 2006 and in November that year an exhibition of his life’s work was displayed at the Design Museum in London until 18^th February 2007.

Reuters Logo by Alan Fletcher

Ross Collins

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1972 he went to the Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 1994 and got a first in illustration, he has also won the MacMillan Children’s Book Prize. He has illustrated over 100 Children’s books and has written 8, he has also won many awards including Royal Mail Book Award and Scottish Children’s Book Award. The types of books he has done are young fiction, toddlers books and picture books. He has also exhibited in New York and London.

My Amazing Dad by Ross Collins

 http://www.rosscollins.net/

Chris Ware

Was born in America on December 28 1967 he is a comic book artist and cartoonist his work includes Acme Novelty Library series and also the graphic novels n Earth, Building Stories and Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth His earliest published strips appeared in the comics page of The Daily Texan a student newspaper for University of Texan ate Austin. In 2007 he created an exhibition for the Phoenix Art Museum it was called Paintings, Sculpture and Graphic Works by Five Cartoonists. Which he also designed and edited the catalogue for the Museum as well.

Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on earth

Pete Fowler

He is a welsh artist born in 1969 in Cardiff he is a freelance illustrator and monster creator, he is known for the work he has done for the welsh band Super Furry Animals, he also does monsterism toys and goods. The style of his work is very cartoony and feature a set of recurring characters. A cd was also released in 2005 by Heavenly Records called The Sounds of Monsterism Island and a second one A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island in 2009. He has also done comics about the monsterism island which were featured in Vice Magazine.

A monster by Pete Fowler

http://monsterism.net/

Susan Kare

She was born in 1954 and is a artist and graphic designer, she has created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT she was working as the Creative Director. She went to New York University and Mount Holyoke College. In NeXT as a designer she worked with clients such as Microsoft and IBM. What she did for Microsoft was a card deck for Windows 3.0’s solitaire game and also numerous icons and design elements for the 3.0. Then for IBM she also produced icons and design elements for OS/2. Her designs are also on stationary and notebooks at the Museum of Maodern Art in New York City.

Icons she has created

Danny Brown

He is a designer, programmer and artist, since 1999 he has been chosen as one of the top 10 internet designers by Internet Business Magazine. He has also represented the best of British design as one of the exhibitors in  the Design councils Great Expectations show in New York. He has also done work the Victoria & Albert Museum which was a three storey high generative flower work to be displayed in the main atrium. He also has a company called Play-Create Ltd and is also a consultant advisor for several organisations and also works on freelance projects.

Display at V&A Museum

http://www.danielbrowns.com/

Hi-Res

They are a design company founded in 1999 by Alexandra Jugovic and Florian Schmitt. They work with graphic design, product design, fine art, music and film and they decided to combine them all. They have designed websites such as for the film Requiem for a Dream. They have won many awards which include a BAFTA, D&AD silver and Cannes Cyberlions and many more. They have also worked with Dolce and Gabbana and Chanel . They have recently done the new website for Dolce and Gabbana. They also created an online ad for channel 4s launch of Ugly Betty. They worked with Deisel to launch there Jewellery Collection his Cabinet of Visions.

Website main page for Dolce and Gbbana

http://hi-res.net/ 

Spike Jonze

He was born Adam Speigel on October 22 1969 in Rockville, Maryland. He is a American director, producer, screenwriter and actor he ha s done work which includes film, television, music videos and commercials. He is best known for the work he did with Charlie Kaufman in the 1999 film Being John Malkovich which he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director, 2002 film Adaptation and co writer/director of the film Where the Wild Things Are. He also has an upcoming film this year called Her which was written and directed by him which has not been released yet. He has also done short films and music videos which include 2 music videos for Kanye West 2 for Bjork and 5 for Beastie Boys along with many more music videos.

Poster for Being John Malkovich

Why Not Associates

They are a British graphic design company they have been going for 25 years, What they work on is corporate identity, television commercial direction, motion graphics, public art, digital design, environmental design and publishing so they work on a wide range of media. They have worked for many global brands which include Nike, Virgin Records and the BBC, and they can also work with smaller locally based commissions like public relations. The work they have done for Nike is in-store graphics including window designs, shoe boxes and tags for the international launch of nike’s shox ‘more go’ campaign.

Window display for Nike

http://www.whynotassociates.com/

Neville Brody

Born in London 1957 he studies a fine art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art and is a British Graphic Designer, typography and art director. He is also the Head of the communication Art & Design department at the Royal College of Art. He started working on record cover design’s but he made his name by his work for The Face Magazine. He has also had an exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum which attracted over 40 thousand people. His recent projects can include a new font for The Times called Times Modern in 2006 which is the new font for the Newspaper since it introduced Times New Roman in 1932 and also the redesign of the BBC in 2011.

Free me from Freedom poster by Neville Brody

John Lawrence

He was born in Hastings in 1933 and attended Hastings School of art and also did military service in West Africa. He has illustrated over 250 books some of them he has also written as well. The types of books he does can be picture books for children to adult works which include best selling Watership Down  by Richard Adams and Phillip Pullman’s Lyra’s Oxford. He has also won the Francis Williams award for illustration twice. He has also been a part time lecturer for most of his career. His work is also displayed in several public collections including Victoria & Albert Museum.

Jonny Hannah

He was born in Dunfermline in Fife, he studied illustration at the Liverpool Art School and he was taught by Peter Bailey he then went to The Royal College of Art. He has mostly worked as an illustrator and in 2000 he collaborated with and animator called Jonathon Hodgson on The man with the beautiful eyes which was a five minute animation for channel 4 which won many awards and also a BAFTA that year also. He has also illustrated also shortlisted in 2005by the Victoria & Albert Museum for the Illustration Award books like Hot Jazz Special for children a book of red-hot rhymes and cool cats it was published by Walker books, the book was. He has also co-published the book called The Captains Alphabet in 2001 with Peter Sampson.

Below The Man With The Beautiful Eyes

Lars Von Trier

He was born in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark in 1956 and is a film director and screenwriter. He went to the National Film College of Denmark during his time as a student there he made the films Nocturne and The Last Detail which they both won the Best Film Awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. Him and producer Peter Jensen founded the movie production company Zentropa Entertainment, in order to make money for the company he made The Kingdom and The Kingdom 2. His feature film came in 1984 which was called The Element of Crime, he has won many awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

Vaughan Oliver

Is a British Graphic Designer born in 1957 he is known for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23. He is most known for his designs for the record label 4AD’s bands such as the Pixies and Cocteau Twins, Oliver’s career has also spanned work with oddball director David Lynch, and projects in fashion, film, dance and fine art. When he came out of college he was working on designing packaging and drinks labels, which had introduced him to typography. When he started making sleeves he played with big letters next to little letters and big which then started for him to make album covers.

Website: http://www.vaughanoliver.co.uk/

The Chase

Is a Graphic Design company it was founded in 1986 in Manchester by co founders Ben Casey and Lionel Hatch. Ben spent many years in education developing degree courses for Graphic Design by doing lectures and moderating at colleges and University’s. Lionel made a decision to become a self employed Graphic Designer after not doing to well at school but then he met Ben which led to the creation of the Chase. They were asked to design a set of stamps to celebrate 75yrs of classic British comics by Royal Mail, picture below.

Beano Stamp for Royal Mail by The Chase

Website: http://www.thechase.co.uk/

Ian Pollock

He was born in Chesire in 1950 and is a British illustrator he has a BA first class Honours in Manchester Polytechnic and went tot the Royal College of Art and  has MA Honours. He has worked for many major magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. What he has worked on are Posters for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The London Dungeon and a set of postage stamps called 'Tales of Terror', for the Royal Mail. He has also illustrated books as well in hi career for example an illustrated cartoon version of Shakespeare's King Lear for Oval Projects and Milton's Paradise Lost for the Folio Society also The Brothers of the Head by Brian Aldiss. His illustrations are rather weird and different from others I have seen.

Illustration of Marco Pierre White by Ian Pollock

Designers Republic

It was graphic design studio with a group of graphic designers it was founded in 1986 which is based in Sheffield in England but it closed in January 2009. Ian Anderson founded it to design flyers for a band which he managed at the time. The Designers Republic was introduced to a larger audience by their record covers for the English electronica label Warp Records. They have also created covers for artists like Moloko, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker.They have also designed Posters and packaging for Grand Theft Auto 1997, the interface for a pc game and manual and packaging for a game called Wipeout for PlayStation- Sega Saturn. They have worked in lots of media including typography, Packaging, logo design, album covers and web design.

Album artwork by The  Designers Republic

J Otto Seibold

Is a Children’s book illustrator. He has also done picture books for all ages.

Some of the books he has done are Going to the Getty (1997), Olive, the Reindeer (1997), Penguin Dreams (1999), The Pig in the Spigot (2000), Gluey: A Snail Tale (2002), Alice in (pop-up) Wonderland (2003), Olive, My Love (2004) and many more. He has also worked with Vivian Walsh on a lot of the books.

Penguin Dreams by Vivian Walsh and J Otto Seibold

Kyle Cooper

He is a designer of motion picture title sequences born July 1962. He studied Graphic Design at Yale University under Paul Rand. In is earlier professional he worked as a creative director at R/GA which is a advertising agency, during that he worked on and created the title sequence for the 1995 film Seven a seminal work which had critical acclaim and which inspired younger designers. He wanted to create main titles that were raising the bar creatively. He has also co founded Imaginary Forces which is a creative agency. Here is some of the film title sequences he has done Braveheart, Flubber, The Mummy, Spider Man and Sherlock Holmes. He has also directed a feature New Port South. 
                                         Se7en Opening sequence

Michel Gondry

He is an academy award winning French film maker born in Versailles France on May 8 1963. what he does is being a commercial director, music video director and also a screenwriter. His career of a film maker began with creating music videos for a band called Oui Oui, the style of the videos for the band caught the attention of music artist Björk and was asked to direct the video for her song Human Behaviour, he has directed a total of eight of her music videos. Since then he has directed music videos for The Rolling Stones, Kylie Minogue, Kanye West Paul McCartney. He has also directed films like The Green Hornet a super hero film by Sony which stars Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz and others. His own film The We and The I he also directed and co-wrote which was selected to be screened in the director’s fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival, his other films to direct include Human Nature, The Science and Sleep and Mood Indigo.

The We and The I film poster directed and written by Michel Gondry

David Carson

Is an American graphic designer and art director who was born September 8 1954. He is known for his magazine designs and his experimental typography. He was also the art director for a magazine which was called Ray Gun while he worked here it made him well known and attracted him new admirers to his work he was featured in publications such as The New York Times. He is said to be one of the most influential graphic designers of the 90’s. He attended the San Diego State University of Arizona which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. He has become the creative director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and a worldwide creative director for Bose Corporation.

Ray Gun magazine

Pentagram

Pentagram are a design consultant agency one of the worlds largest. Its is owned by  and run by 19 partners and friends who are all leaders in their individual creative fields.It was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange and Mervin Kurlansky.
 They work all over the world including New York, Berlin and London. They design a whole lot of work which includes books, posters, websites and architecture just to name a few. They have also designed identities for famous brands including United Airlines, Shell and Star Alliance. They have also product designed Dell computers and Nike watches and there packaging design can be found at Tesco in the finest range, Swatch and and the Tiffany’s store in NYC. Pentagram was hired to redesign the American cable television program, The Daily Show's set and on-screen graphics.

An updated identity for Penguin group by Pentagram

Eboy

They are a pixel art group founded on May 2^nd 1997 by Kai Vermehr, Steffan Sauerteig and Svend Smital. There illustrations have been made into shirts, souvenirs and posters also displayed in gallery exhibitions. They started working with pixels as they liked the idea of making pictures only for screen they like how they get really sharp and clean looking results and also how handling with the pixels is fun and to be forced to simplify and abstract things. Their work makes use of commercial icons amnd popular culture and their type of style is presented in three-dimensional isometric illustrations filled with robots, guns, girls and cars. The brands and companies such as coca cola, Goola, Honda, MTV, VH1 and Addidas. They have also created an album cover for Groove Armada’s 2007 studio album Soundboy rock. Their unique style has gained them a cult following among other graphic designers worldwide. They have also transformed London into pixels with iconic buidings and lots of surreal action.

Eboy's London Poster

Website: http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/

John Maeda

He is a Graphic designer and author, he started out as a software engineer at the Massachesettes Institute of Technology when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand. When he finished his bachelors degree and Masters he went to study in Japan Tsukaba University's Insitute of Art & Design to complete his Ph.D in design.
His early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining computer programming with traditional artistic technique. He has done shows and exhibited in London, Paris and New York. He also has permanent work displayed in The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. He also published a book called Laws of Simplicity in 2006 which is his best selling book it is about ways that people can simplify their life in growing complexity.

John Maeda's design of the New York Times Key Magazine's cover

Shirley Hughes

She is an author and illustrator she has written over fifty books which have been sold more than 8 million copies and has illustrated more than 200 as well. She trained at Liverpool School of Art and the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, she had wanted to be a set designer but changed her mind and the influence of theatre still remains in her work. She had began her work by illustrating for others authors work. With her children she gained a first hand experience on what they like to read which influenced her first book which was called Lucy and Tom’s Day. She has also won the Kate Greenaway medal for her book Dogger which is a book about a family incident the loss of a pet dog. She loved writing books about real life situations as she said there was not many children’s books about this. She was also awarded an OBE in 1999.

A quote from Shirley says " My books have grown from real situations with which very small children can identify, perhaps even at an age before they can fully appreciate fairy tales. They are mostly set in a city background - my own part of London to be exact. The domestic details are very local and English, but I hope the themes are fairly universal."

Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Kathleen Hale

Kathleen was an illustrator, children's author and British artist she was born on the 28th May 1898 in Lancashire and dies on 26th January 2000. She moved to London in 1917 she worked sometime as an artist and in the 1920s she earned a living as an illustrator and did commissions for book jackets and by selling her own drawings.
  One of her most known books is called Oralando The Marmalade Cat which were a series of books.. It was one of the most popular children’s book of the 1940’s and 50’s. She created Orlando so she could entertain her own children at bedtime.

The Book Orlando's Evening Out by Kathleen Hale

Ronald Searle

He was a British artist and cartoonist born 3 March 1920 in Cambridge he was also educated there at the Cambridge School of Art, and died 20 December 2011. He left his studies when World War 2 started and left to serve in the Royal Engineers and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held by them for three and a half years. He is also known as the creator of St Trinians School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willians on the Molesworth series. 

St Trinian's illustration by Ronald Searle

Scott McCloud

He is an American cartoonist born in 1960 in Boston Massachusetts, he has created the science fiction book/superhero comic book series called Zot! In 1984 and other print comic books. There was a total of 36 issues of Zot! Who was a hero from an alternate Earth who can fly with rocket boots and fights villains with a laser gun. The first ten of the issues were in colour where as the rest were in black and white it ran from 1984 to 1990. In 1990 he had an idea of a 24 hour comic which was a complete 24 page created by a single cartoonist in 24 hours. Thousands of cartoonists have signed up to the challenge since. He sketches his layouts in pencil but most of his work is done digitally, he scans the work to his computer and then creates them in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He explains how he has done his working his 2006 book Making Comics. He has also done web comics of ones you can read online he has made a web comic he has also done a Google Chrome comic explaining all about the browser and how to use it.

Zot! comic book by Scott McCloud

Website: http://scottmccloud.com/

Joel Stewart

He grew up in Sheffield he obtained a first class honors degree in illustration from Falmouth College of Arts. He is also known for his Dexter Bexley picture books and illustrations for other authors like Julia Donaldson and Carol Ann Duffy.
He has worked for Walker books and has designed many books for them. His career began when he did his first pictures book called The Adventures of a Nose. He is also the creator and director of the children's animation series called The Adventures of Abney & Teal.

The Adventures of Abney & Teal TV series

Lauren Child

Lauren is an English author and Illustrator known for the books such as Charlie and Lola which was a series of picture books that she had illustrated, but was then adapted as animated television stars. The tv series each one lasts 11 minutes there has been 3 series and a total of 80 episodes. There are 4 original books by Lauren Child and also 18 spin off books based on the television series.  Over the years Lauren has written and illustrated 21 books over the years. She has also won awards for her books.

I Am Too Absolutely Small for School by Lauren Child

Saul Bass

He was an American graphic designer and also filmmaker who has collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock where he designed the titles for vertigo and also title sequence for North by Northwest. He has designed many corporate logos including AT&Ts bell and globe logo and also continental airlines jetstream logo. He also designed movie posters where his were more simplified than others and he put symbolic designs in that visually communicated key essential elements of the film, his poster’s are characterized by a distinctive typography and minimalistic style.

Identity for AT&T by Saul Bass

Sara Fanelli

Sara is an artist and illustrator who was born in Florence 1969 she studied art at Camberwell college of art in London and also the royal college of art.she has won a D&AD silver awards for a postage stamp, poster design and for her book sometimes I think sometimes I am. She has also been commissioned by the Tate Modern to design their four permanent collection gallery entrances a 40 metres long timeline of 20th century artists. She also has worked with penguin books the New Yorker and Royal Mail. Some of the books she has worked on are First Flight, Dear Diary and Wolf!

Sara Fanelli's book First Flight

Website http://www.sarafanelli.com/docs/bg02.html# 

Jonathan Barnbrook

Is a British Graphic designer, film maker and typographer. He is most known for doing the design for the cover artwork of David Bowie’s 2002 album Heathen. He has also created many fonts some are called Mason, Patriot and Drone. He went to Saint Martin’s School of Art where he graduated with a distinction in graphic design. He also went to the Royal College of Art in London. In 2007 his work was recognised for his contribution to brithish Graphic Design and he had an exhibition at the Design Museum in London called Friendly Fire. He has exhibited in  any other places including Japan, New York, USA, Australia and Berlin.

The font used on this poster was Jonathon Barnbrook's font Mason 

Yugo Nakamura

Yugo Nakamura is a web designer and is highly regarded as one of the worlds most innovative designers for the web. He is also a creative director, designer and engineer who explores various forms of interactive systems in digital and networked environments.

Yugo Nakamura is renowned for the complexity of the interactive animations that he does on websites his own website he has used animations which look very complex. One of his most important influences was John Maeda. Who was born in Nara 1970, which was the ancient capital of Japan, he originally studied civil engineering and landscape architecture at Tokyo University. After graduation, Nakamura spent had four years working on bridge some building projects. He has exhibited in a number of places throughout his life which include London, Paris and Vienna. He has also done a number of lectures and has won many awards.

His website: http://yugop.com/

Meta Design

MetaDesign is one of Europe's most respected design agencies for over ten years. Its portfolio of services that they do are strategic brand management and design implementation of complex corporate identities and images and they can also do print production and packaging design. Initially they were set up to start off with in Berlin 1992 by Uli Mayer-Johanssen and Erik Speikermann, Metadesign is now in 4 different places which has offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zurich, they also employ over 100 people, they are also doing global branding for Adobe, Volkswagen, Audi and Lufthansa which are all very well known companies. They have also won a number of awards throughout the years.

Their website: http://www.metadesign.com/ 

Peter Saville

Peter Saville is a British graphic designer. Born in Manchester in 1955, has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music. Since his first work for Factory Records in the late 1970s, Peter Saville Having been introduced to graphic design with his friend Malcolm Garrett by Peter Hancock, their sixth form art teacher.

Saville decided to study graphics at Manchester Polytechnic, where Garrett soon joined him. At the time bands like Kraftwerk and Roxy Music obsessed Saville, but Garrett encouraged him to discover the work of early modern movement typographers such as Herbert Bayer and Jan Tschichold. He found their elegantly ordered aesthetic more appealing than the anarchic style of punk graphics. Tschichold was the inspiration for Saville’s first commercial project, the 1978 launch poster for The Factory, and a club night run by a local TV journalist Tony Wilson.

Sought out by a younger generation for his signature, Saville’s work became increasingly self-referential. Not only was he photographed for Suede’s Film Star, but The Apartment was a set in the cover of Pulp’s This Is Hardcore. Meanwhile advances in image manipulation software enabled him to digitally rework images, rather than having to work with sourced imagery

He has created album artwork for acts such as Joy Division, New Order and, later, Suede and Pulp and by the mid-1980s, Saville’s reputation as a designer of music graphics was assured and he was sought-after by mainstream acts such as Wham! and Peter Gabriel, No longer involved with SHOW studio, he continues to recycle his own work, alongside that of others.

Colour and Form, 2002
Design Museum web site identity
Design: Peter Saville

Tomato

Rick Smith and Karl Hyde founded Tomato as an art design collective at the turn of the 1990s by nine people based in London, two of whom are of the electronic music group Underworld.

Their primary function is mainly in television and print advertising, corporate identity, fashion, architecture, public speaking, art installations, clothing, and of course, exhibitions and live performances for music artists all designed from Underworld's depth of talent and various channels of output. In its existence, They have also built an international reputation for broadly working across different sections of the various medias, developing platforms for many multi media projects in the commercial world along with research based projects creating graphic designs for all manner of clients such as Reebok, Adidas and Levi's; and identity for museums and cultural centres. They also host many creative workshops for company’s in the advertising world

Tomato regards itself as an art and design collective rather than as a design and communication agency.

Tomato has offices in New York and Tokyo as well as a film production company, Tomato Films and their effective multi collaboration continues toda

Website: http://www.tomato.co.uk/

April Germain

April Germain born in 1948 is recognised as one f the first designers to use computer technology as a design tool and with Jayme Odgers created New Wave’ design style in the US during the late 70s and early 80s In 1984, she lobbied successfully to change the department name to Visual Communications, as she felt the term “graphic design” would prove too limiting to future designers. She then returned to full-time practice and acquired her first Macintosh computer.

Prior to the mid-80s, designers shunned computers, viewing them as challenges to the crispness of the International style. However, Greiman did not feel that this should be a limitation, and embracing the physicality of digital work in terms of pixelation, "errors" in digitization, etc

She produced an issue of Design Quarterly in 1986, notable in its development of graphic design. Entitled Does it make sense?, the edition was edited by Mildred Friedman and published She re-imagined the magazine as a poster that folded out to almost three-by-six feet. It contained a life-size, MacVision-generated image of her outstretched naked body adorned with symbolic images and text— a provocative gesture, which emphatically countered the objective, rational and masculine tendencies of modernist design.

This is the "Hand Holding a Bowl of Rice"

Greiman completed her largest ever work: a public mural, "Hand Holding a Bowl of Rice," spanning "seven stories of two building facades marking the entrance to the Wilshire Vermont Metro Station in Los Angeles and still teaches today in universites. 

Her website: http://aprilgreiman.com/