living designers

///JESSICA HISCHE/// Jessica Hische is an Illustrator and a Typographer and Designer based out of Brooklyn. She graduated in 2006 with adegree in Graphic and Interactive Design from Tyler School of Art (Temple University). She credits herself as a procrastiworker who always pumps out her painting and lettering projects right on time. Jessica’s clients includes Wes Anderson, Tiffany & Co., The New York Times, Penguin Books, Target, Leo Burnett, American Express, and Wired Magazine.

///WOLFGANG WEINGART/// Wolfgang Weingart was a teacher and Design Philosopher. He is credited as "the father" of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography. He taught Typography that was very influential in the 1990's. He believes that what he taught was Swiss Typography, but the work that came from his students pushed the boundaries of traditional swiss Typography.

///STEFAN SAGMEISTER/// Born in Bregenz, Austria in 1962, Sagmeister began his unorthodox career at age 15 writing for Alphorn, a small, left-wing magazine, but quickly realized that working on the layout was more enjoyable than writing articles. Sagmeister, whose motto was “Style=Fart,” replaced style with attitude. His designs are rooted in disorienting images and self-defining aphorisms. With apparent ease, Sagmeister morphs—as tricksters are wont to do—taking on various skins, from graphic designer to conceptual typographer to performance artist. When the mood strikes, he returns to being a designer, and a completely new cycle of transformation commences.

///WIM CROUWEL/// Born in 1928, Wim Crouwel is a remarkable and inspiring figure with an inventive spirit and vision, vigorous and always distinguished. Hendrik "Wim" Crouwel is a Graphic Designer, and Typographer. He studied fine arts in the Netherlands and Typography in Amsterdam. Crouwel's graphic work is especially well known for the use of Grid-based layouts and typography that is rooted in the International Typographic Style.

///ERIK SPIEKERMANN/// Erik Spiekermann born in 1947 is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts BremenIn 1989 he and his wife, Joan Spiekermann, started FontShop, the first mail-order distributor for digital fonts. FontShop International followed and now publishes theFontFont range of typefaces. MetaDesign combined clean, teutonic-looking information design and complex corporate design systems for clients like BVG (Berlin Transit), Düsseldorf Airport, Audi, Volkswagen and Heidelberg Printing, amongst others.