Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.

Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.^[1]

Bierut was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates. Since 1990 he has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram. Biography at 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. He has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in several permanent collections including: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); the Denver Art Museum; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany; and the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, Switzerland."^[2]

Bierut served as the national president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1998 to 2001.

Bierut is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art.

Bierut is also the co-editor of three Looking Closer graphic design anthologies. He is also a founding writer of the Design Observer blog with Rick Poynor, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand.^[3]

Bierut is also known for his involvement in the film Helvetica.^{[citation needed]}

Books

• Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design, Princeton Architectural Press, (May 31) 2007. (ISBN 978-1568986999)

Quotes

• "Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at."

• "Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything."

• "Graphic design is the purposeful combination of words, pictures and other visual elements to support the communication of an explicit or implicit message."^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of AIGA medalists

External links

• Design Observer blog with biography available on homepage
• AIGA biography
• Yale online biography
• Art Directors Club biography and images of work

References

1. ^ Biography at Pentagram
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Design Observer

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