Marian Bantjes was born in Canada, in 1963. She grew up in Saskatchewan but now works internationally from her home off the west coast on Bowen Island. In 1983, she started working with book publisher Hartley & Marks after dropping… Continue Reading →
Rosemarie Tissi was born in Thayngen, Switzerland in 1937. She attended a one-year program at the School of Applied Art in Zurich, in 1953. There, she studied and developed her skills in Swiss design. Her first commission was a poster… Continue Reading →
Paula Scher was born on October 6th, 1948. She was born in Virginia but grew up in Philadelphia and Washington DC. In the 1970s, she went to the Tyler School of Art, where she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Fine… Continue Reading →
Stanley Mouse was born on October 10, 1990, in the state of California. He was born ‘Stanley George Miller,’ but is now more commonly known as Stanley Mouse. His father was an animator for Disney and worked on movies such… Continue Reading →
George Lois was born on June 26th, 1931, to immigrant parents from Greece. He was born and raised in New York and attended the High School of Music and Art. After high school, he decided to attend Pratt Institute, but… Continue Reading →
Inception The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, in New York City. Its founding director was Alfred H. Barr Jr. and its founding trustees included Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. It was the… Continue Reading →
Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929, in Japan. When she was little, Kusama’s mother didn’t want her to be an artist. Her mother would tear down her drawings and canvases, but she stayed determined. Even when she couldn’t afford art… Continue Reading →
When I was thinking about how to fit the 8 type categories into a poster that would look concise, I was inspired by the geometric shapes of the suprematism movement. I used simple shapes, made up of only primary colors… Continue Reading →
Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Sanok, Poland, on the 24th of February, 1929. He attended the Krakow University of Technology, where he studied architecture. He worked a couple of jobs after graduating but didn’t like them very much. Eventually, he… Continue Reading →