Group's posts with tag: posters
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biography
1947
born in Willisau/Switzerland
1963-67
Apprenticeship as a Typographer
1967-71
Graphic Design Education at Art School of Lucerne
1971-72
Art Director in Paris at Hollenstein Création
since 1973
own Graphic Design Studio in Willisau/Switzerland
since 1966
Organizer of the Willisau Jazz Concerts
since 1975
Organizer of the Willisau Jazz Festival
since 1998
Professor at State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart/Germany
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/04/features/design05.php
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| | Betsy Cameron's first effort at creating a poster was in early 1987. It was a black and white photograph picturing two small children sitting on a beach looking out to sea. The simple, yet evocative poster, aptly named "Two Children," soared to the top of the Bruce McGaw Graphics' best seller list.
Betsy's imagery is simple, consisting mainly of children and landscapes. Gently drawing viewers into a world of contemplation, nostalgia and memories, her photographs appeal to both the young and old alike.
Betsy began her professional career as a fashion model with the Ford Model Agency in New York City. She appeared on the covers of leading women's and fashion magazines and worked with most of the world's finest photographers. After ten successful years, Betsy decided to make the transition from one side of the camera to the other. She took some test shots of two young models which, after they appeared in Life magazine, caused such a sensation that the first issue of Look magazine followed up with a four-page spread of the then-unknown models, Lisanne Falk and Brooke Shields.
Over the next several years, Betsy's photographs appeared in numerous magazines throughout the world. Then, in 1980, Betsy accepted an assignment from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees which was to forever change her view not only of photography, but of life. She spent three months in Cambodia photographing over 300 refugee children who had become separated from their families by the war. The photographs were published and sent to various camps on both sides of the Cambodian border in an effort to reunite the children with their relatives. The idea worked over 200 children were resettled with their families.
Betsy continues extensive fashion and portrait work and commercial assignments including corporate clients Radio City Music Hall, Dunkin' Donuts, Bufferin and Juicy Juice. Cameron's first book, "Little Angels," was published in 1993 by Villard Books.
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Josef Müller-Brockmann, (May 9, 1914 – August 30, 1996), was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he produced concert posters for the Tonhalle in Zurich. In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. In 1966 he was appointed European design consultant to IBM. Müller-Brockman was author of the 1961 publications The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, Grid Systems in Graphic Design where he advocates use of the grid for page structure, and the 1971 publications History of the Poster and A History of Visual Communication.
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| | Otto Baumberger (1889-1961)
Affectionately referred to as the "spiritual father of the Swiss poster", Otto Baumberger helped to found the Swiss schools of graphic design in the early 1900's and eventually spawned the style of the "Swiss object" poster in the 1930's.Preceeded and perhaps inspired by phenomenal Swiss poster designers Grasset and Steinlen, Baumberger made his first posters in 1911, at the age of 22. Soon after, he began doing important work for the Swiss theatre. He is said to have inspired the Swiss travel poster, and along with his colleagues, trademarked the new concepts of design simplicity and "Photographic Realism".Education and learning played a large role in Baumberger's life. He began by mastering the skill of lithography while attending a course with Eduard Stiefel at the Applied Arts School in Zurich. In 1908 Baumberger began design study at the Munich Academy, and in 1911, was employed as a lithographer by J.E. Wolfensberger, where he later became a partner. From 1920-1932, at the height of his career, Baumberger became a professor of lithography and drawing at the Applied Arts School of Zurich, finishing his career in education as the faculty chairman and professor at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. Baumberger proved himself to be one of the true masters of "object identification" and typography as exemplified by his posters, "PKZ" and "Brak Liquer".
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Armin Hofmann is a Swiss graphic designer. With Emil Ruder, Hoffman helped to found the Basel School (Schule für Gestaltung Basel) and a graphic style known as the Swiss Style. He was well known for his posters, which emphasised economical use of colour and fonts, in reaction to what Hofmann regarded as the "trivialization of colour". His posters have been widely exhibited as works of art in major galleries, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art.
He was also an influential educator. In 1965 he wrote the Graphic Design Manual, a popular textbook in the field.
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nouveau
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Leonetto Cappiello (b. 1875 in Livorno, Italy; d. 1942 in Cannes, France) was an Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris.He is now often called 'the father of modern advertising' because of his innovation in poster design. The early advertising poster was characterized by a painterly quality as evidenced by early poster artists Jules Chéret, Alfred Choubrac and Hugo D'Alesi. Cappiello, like other young artists, worked in way that was almost the opposite of his predecessors. He was the first poster artist to use bold figures popping out of black backgrounds, a startling contrast to the posters early norm. |
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