Best Graphic Designer

                                                WORLD BEST GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Otl Aicher

Otl Aicher, also known as Otto Aicher (May 13, 1922 - September 1, 1991) was one of the leading German graphic designers of the 20th century.

Aicher may be best known for being the lead designer for the 1972 Munich Olympics. He created a new set of pictograms that paved the way for the ubiquitous stick figures currently used in public signs.

   

Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920-April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen.

Bass was responsible for some of the best-remembered, most iconic logos in North America, including both the Bell Telephone logo (1969) and successor AT&T globe (1983). Other well-known designs were Continental Airlines (1968), Dixie (1969) and United Way (1972). Later, he would produce logos for a number of Japanese companies as well. He also designed the Student Academy Award for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator. Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1957. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.

Bierut was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates. Since 1990 he has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram.

According to his Pentagram online biography: Bierut "is responsible for leading a team of graphic designers who create identity design, environmental graphic design and editorial design solutions

Robert Brownjohn

Robert Brownjohn (August 8, 1925-August 1, 1970) was a graphic designer known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture.

He is best known for his motion picture title sequences, especially From Russia with Love and Goldfinger.

In his short but intense working life, Brownjohn left helped to redefine graphic design, to move it from a formal to a conceptual art. His projects exemplify every aspect of his relationship to design, including his emphasis on content over form and his preferences with ordinary and personal images.

Ken Cato

Ken Cato is an Australian designer with an international reputation. Cato's work encompasses all facets of corporate and brand management and design. His philosophy of design is dynamically holistic, providing the synergistic solutions that produce positive results. As a graphic designer, his work has earned him an international reputation. He has won numerous international and Australian design awards, and his work is represented in museums and galleries throughout the World. He is a long-standing member of Alliance Graphic International and is a past AGI President. He currently holds the position of Director of Education. The World's largest student design conference was founded by Ken Cato in 1991. Now approaching its 15th year, AGIdeas attracts annually over 2000 young designers from around the World.

In 1995, Ken was awarded the first Australian Honorary Doctorate of Design from Swinburne University and was inducted into the 'Hall of Fame' of the inaugural Victorian Design Awards. Ken is a foundation member of the Australian Writers and Art Directors Association, a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, ICOGRADA, Design Institute of Australia, Australian Marketing Institute, Industrial Design Council of Australia, and is Patron of the Australian Academy of Design. Ken is also an acclaimed author and has written numerous books.