Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser is one of the most famous American graphic designers of the 20 century. Milton Glaser is the designer behind some of the most famous popular icons, including the 'I love New York' campaign for the New York State Department of Commerce Skip forward nearly 25 years, and the I (Heart) NY design remains one of the most recognizable pieces of design in the world. Still cited on licensed and unlicensed merchandise across the city and internationally, it's has taken on a life of its own.Glaser has designed everything from a 1967 Bob Dylan Greatest Hits Album cover, to the DC Bullet adorning every DC comic for nearly 25 years, yet he still finds himself remembered for the aching simplicity of the I Heart NY design. What I love about his is the simplicity of it and yet it’s so popular. It just comes to show that a design doesn’t have to me complicated to be affective.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8303867/Milton-Glaser-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place.html

Laurie Rosenwald

For me Laurie is really exciting in the way she approaches design and illustration. The work feels simple, honest and sophisticated all at once. She makes it all look so easy.
Like Picasso, Laurie has managed to beautifully convey a thought with a few squiggles of a pen or with a blob of colour from a brush. She's invented a way to teach others to free themselves from traditional conventions and methods of approaching art and design, in part by working backwards and relying more on intuition.



http://www.rosenworld.com/

Laura Smith

I love her Classic, colourful, illustrations. They are edited to only the necessary detail, and her graphic images are nostalgic. Her work always has a retro style to them and always looks so cool. Laura's inspiration has been the work of artists and designers from the first half of the 20th Century. Economy in imagery and design have always been the motivating forces behind her art. She's worked with a wide array of national and international clients including Mercedez Benz, Ferrari and Time Magazine, to name just a few.

http://www.graphic-design.com/Gallery/laura_smith/index.html

Deborah Sussman

Deborah is and Art director and environmental graphic designer.I really like her work. She has been creating legendary work for public spaces for decades. Deborah and her firm, have done interior and exterior way finding and signage systems for Apple, Hasbro, the city of Los Angeles, and numerous others. She may be most famous for her comprehensive graphics program for the 1984 Summer Olympics. She has a keen eye for both client and community needs, creating work that is imaginative, spare, and crystal clear. I really love how her work visual communicates what’s going on but in the simplest design form using shapes and numbers.

(http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-deborahsussman)

David Carson

Like Neville Brody, typographer and graphic designer David Carson became influential in the late 1980's and 1990s for experimental typeface designs. David Carson's designs were featured heavily in surfing and skateboarding magazines. David Carson broke most of the rules of design and typography, a process that was made easy with the use of desk top publishing programs, such as PageMaker, and Illustrator. He experimented with overlapping and distorted fonts and mixed these with striking photographic images. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun which was first published in 1992 in California. Through Ray Gun Carson created new boundaries in magazine publishing. He abandoned the usual conventions of the grid system and ignored the acceptable usage of columns, headlines and even page numbers. I think his style which is chaotic and abstract in the extreme, often unreadable,is always visually exciting.since i'm a graphic designer I could use his techniques and apply them to my own.

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and first made his way into the public eye through his record cover designs and his involvement in the British independent music scene in the early 1980s. Fetish he began experimenting with the beginnings of a new visual language that consisted of a mixture of visual and architectural elements. Later he was able to put these ideas into practice and to set new precedents through the innovative styling of The Face magazine (1981-1986). It was his work on magazines that firmly established his reputation as one of the world’s leading graphic designers. His artistic contribution to The Face completely revolutionized the way in which designers and readers approach the medium. His unique designs soon became much-imitated models for magazines, advertising and consumer-oriented graphics of the eighties. Brody also won much public acclaim through his highly innovative ideas on incorporating and combining typefaces into design. Later on he took this a step further and began designing his own typefaces, thus opening the way for the advent of digital type design. His pioneering spirit in the area of typography manifests itself today in such projects as FUSE, a regularly published collection of experimental typefaces and posters which challenges the boundaries between typography and graphic design.
http://new.myfonts.com/person/Neville_Brody/

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood is one of my favourite directors. For most of his career, Clint Eastwood as an actor has overshadowed his accomplishments as a director. With over 30 movies as a director and two Academy Awards for Best Director, Clint Eastwood is one of America’s most prolific and best filmmakers. And at a time when special effects dominate the industry, when movies are routinely budgeted over $100 million dollars, it’s refreshing to see a filmmaker like Eastwood confident and competent enough to make modestly budgeted films ahead of schedule and under budget with an emphasis of story over effects. He’s been directing for a long time so he has both confidence and experience in his craft. It also helps that he worked in television where the quick production schedules and limited budgets necessitated that a director work quickly and efficiently. One of my favourite films by Clint eastwood is million dollar baby.
I saw this film a few years ago and was blown away by it. This movie is not an action packed boxing movie, it’s not some random character drama. This movie is all of that and (no pun intended) a million times more. This film, directed by Clint Eastwood, is one of the best films I have seen in my life. It isn't original but this movie does such an amazing job of drawing you into the scenes and the characters and the fights that you will be cheering and crying throughout this journey. The best part is what you take away from this film, a mild sort of hope and despair. This movie blends it all so well that you get involved in the film and love every moment. The acting is some of the best of recent years and Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, and Clint Eastwood all give powerful performances that are just involving. You really get to know these characters as the film progresses and the story opens up. Everything done by this movie was just on the dot perfect, and in my opinion this is possibly the greatest film of his career.


http://movies.about.com/od/milliondollarbaby/a/million123104.htm