#AGI member Margaret Calvert (UK, inducted in 1976) School children Nearby, 1960
Margaret Calvert studied illustration at Chelsea School of Art in the 1950s. After leaving Chelsea, she was invited to join Jock Kinneir (her tutor), to assist on the design of signs for Gatwick Airport. Worked with Jock on the UK’s road signage system. Major projects included designing an integrated lettering and signing system for British Rail, British Airports, and the Tyne and Wear Metro. Collaborated with Monotype to produce the typeface Calvert, released in 1981, based on lettering designed for the Metro and later adapted for the Royal College of Art, 1992. Designed the typeface A26 (based on traffic signs), for FUSE, 1994. Won a D&AD Silver Award for the David Hockney book Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink, 1978. She taught part-time at the Royal College of Art (1966–2001) and was head of graphic design at the RCA (1987–91). She is a senior fellow of the RCA, fellow of the University of the Arts, London and an honorary doctor of the University of Brighton.
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#AGI member Fang Cao (China, inducted in 2004) Green, 2023
A professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Design, Nanjing University of Art. A member of the China Artists Association and A member of the International Graphic Design Alliance (AGI). A head of national language and text promotion base.Deputy Editor in Chief of the Visual Communication Design Branch of the Encyclopedia of China.
Compiled and published 15 types of textbooks and won national awards. Published over 50 papers.
The poster "No Child Left Behind" won the Silver Award at the 10th National Art Exhibition. The book design of the "movable type" series won the "Most Beautiful Book in China" award.
The studio team has completed dozens of visual image designs...Be invited to give academic reports at international annual conferences for many times, and lecture at Kassel University in Germany, Aichi Prefecture University of Arts in Japan, and the Chinese Cultural Center in The Hague.
Judge for the Warsaw International Poster Biennale, Italy "GOOD 50x70" Poster Exhibition, "Water is Life" International College Student Poster Exhibition, Finland Lahti Poster Triennial, Peace International Poster Biennale, BIPB International Poster Art Biennale, and other exhibitions.
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#AGI member Matthew Carter (USA, inducted in 1978) Shelley, 1972
Matthew Carter is a type designer with 60 years’ experience in typographic technologies, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies he was a co-founder of Bitstream Inc. in 1981, a digital type foundry. Carter is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., designers and producers of original typefaces, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Carter's type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian (for newspaper text), Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter, and faces for Greek, Cyrillic and Devanagari. For Carter & Cone he designed Mantinia, Sophia, Elephant, Big Caslon, Alisal and Miller. He designed Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Nina and Sitka for Microsoft, and Carter Sans for Monotype Imaging.
Carter is a Royal Designer for Industry, and a Senior Critic on Yale's Graphic Design faculty. In 2010 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian National Design Awards. Seven of his type designs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Late #AGI member Jean Carlu (France, inducted in 1952) Gellé toothpaste, 1938
Originally trained as an architect, he decided to become a graphic designer after he lost his right hand in a traffic accident. He was one of the avantgarde who launched the new European poster. His early works reveal a fascination for geometric forms and minimal text, inspired by cubists like Juan Gris and Fernand Léger and surrealists like André Breton and Yves Tanguy. He also started to try new developments like photomontage (Atlantis film poster, 1932) and three-dimensional elements (La Grand Maison de Blanc department store, 1933). His political and social commitment was evident in his work for the peace movement (Le Désarmement, 1932 and Stop Hitler Now, 1940). There Carlu created his most famous poster, America’s Answer! Production. It was voted as poster of the year by the NADC. Back in France (1953) he became art director for Larousse and made a great contribution to commercial art, working for Air France and Firestone France.
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#AGI member Alois Carigiet (Switzerland, inducted in 1957) Au grand passage, 1940
After an apprenticeship in visual art, Carigiet trained in Zürich in an advertising agency (1923–27). He then started his own practice and got assignments to design posters and stage sets. He was co-founder of the Cabaret Cornichon for which he produced sets, costumes and the publicity. His pre-war posters are classics. The Zürich men’s fashion fi rm PKZ was an important client. His reputation opened the doors of AGI: he was chosen as what AGI dubbed at the time ‘an honorary member’. In 1939 Carigiet moved back to his native mountains and focused on painting. He later also created several successful children’s books. He received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 1966. He had many exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany and Canada, and became well known in Japan and the USA.
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#AGI member Erberto Carboni (Italy, inducted in 1952) Bertolli olive oil, 1953
Carboni started his studies in architecture in 1921, but became also interested in graphic and industrial design. His career began at the famous Studio Boggeri, but later he worked on his own. He specialized in exhibitions for trade fairs (Olivetti), interior design and graphics. For many years, Carboni worked for RAI (the Italian radio and TV company), but also for clients who mainly manufactured basic consumer products like Motta (ice cream), Pavesi (bread), Barilla (pasta) and Shell Oil. He presented those clients with a complete graphic line, ranging from packaging to posters. From 1953 to 1960 he worked for Bertolli, for whom he designed a whole series of magazine ads and posters. In 1954 he designed the ‘Delfi no’ (dolphin) chair for Arflex. He wrote several books; Exhibitions and Displays (1959), with an illustrated introduction by Herbert Bayer, features his relatively unknown work from the early 1930s through to the late 1950s.
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#AGI member Ken Carbone (USA, inducted in 1997) Musée du Louvre Signage, 1988
Ken Carbone is known for his work in the areas of brand identity, print communications, exhibitions and environmental graphics. Among his accomplishments are a signage and wayfinding system for the Louvre, a brand identity programme for Sesame Workshop and a graphics and display system for the international auction house, Christies. He has also worked with top corporations, such as Morgan Stanley, Tiffany & Co. and Herman Miller, in addition to many celebrated cultural institutions, including MoMA, the High Museum, Hartford Stage and the Cleveland Museum of Art. An adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, Ken frequently speaks to audiences about the role of strategic design and communications in business. His work has been featured in design publications such as Graphis, Communication Arts, I.D., Print and Idea. He is the author of The Virtuoso: Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents, which explores excellence in art, science and music.
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#AGI member Frederick Vincent Carabott (UK, inducted in 1968) Griechenland, 1961
Late Frederick Vincent Carabott is of mixed Anglo-Greek parentage. Studied 1950–53 in London at Chelsea School of Art and St Martin’s School of Arts and Crafts. Returned to Greece and in 1957 became art consultant to Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts and Pictures magazine, both of Athens. Has since acted in the same capacity for many other organizations, including until 1967 the Greek Tourist Board, which was awarded the 1962 Golden Tulip from the International Advertising Association for work done largely under his direction. In 1962, he co-founded K+K Athens Publicity Centre (now K+K/Univas). Director of studies and lecturer at Hellenic American Institute of Graphic Arts (since re-named Homer/ Omiros), 1968–71. Awarded prize at 1962 Livorno International Tourist Poster Exhibition and Rizzoli awards in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968. The King of Greece awarded him the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, in recognition of outstanding contribution to graphic design.
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#AGI member Mel Calman (UK, inducted in 1974) I want to design a client, 1994
He studied at Perse School, Cambridge and did illustration at St Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmith College. In a time span of 37 years (1957–94), he created cartoons for the Daily Express, Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Sunday Times and The Times. He also worked for Cosmopolitan and House & Garden. Mel was a cartoon art addict and founded The Workshop, later called The Cartoon Gallery, where exhibits were held of original cartoons, illustrations and graphics. He created a short, striking animated cartoon, The Arrow, and has drawn for television. He said that his ‘little man’ was influenced by James Thurber and is not autobiographical. He published many books including Calman and Women (1968), Couples (1972) and How About A Little Quarrel Before Bed? (1981). In 1986 he wrote his autobiography, called What Else Do You Do? I’ll never forget and often use, when applicable, the text of his cartoon ‘I hope my eating doesn’t spoil your cigar!’ Thanks, Mel! – Ben Bos
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#AGI member Georges Calame (Switzerland, inducted in 1967) Tagliabue Meubles, 1994
Georges spent some time in Paris, before opening his own graphic design studio in Geneva, 1953. In exhibition design he received major commissions: the Italian pavilion at ‘Graphic 1957’, pavilions at Swiss Expo 1964, Lausanne, at the Montreal World Fair 1967, the Swiss pavilion in Brno and a project for the Milan Triennale. From 1969–75 he was art director of the Pakistan Design Center in Karachi, but also designed the ‘Dybs 69’ design biennial and the travelling exhibition ‘Swiss Graphic Design’. From 1975 to 1993 he created the visual identity of the BCG bank and harmonized the look of all its branches. His posters for ‘A Japanese Summer in Geneva’ (1983) aimed to connect East and West as well as the past and the present. His posters were selected 15 times at the ‘Best Swiss Posters of the Year’ event. In 1998 he received an award at the Brno Biennale for his powerful and simple design for the Geneva furniture shop Tagliabue, which had been a client over 30 years.
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#AGI member Andrew Byrom (UK, inducted in 2012) Interiors Light, 2005
Andrew Byrom is a British-born designer and educator based in Los Angeles. His clients include The Museum of Latin American Art, The New York Times Magazine, Penguin Books, Sagmeister Inc., and The Architecture + Design Museum.
His interdisciplinary work has been recognized by the AIGA and the Type Directors Club. It has featured in many design related publications and has been exhibited in venues across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has also presented at international conferences and design insitutions - including MOCA/Pacific Design Center, ATypI, TypeCon, The AIGA Y Conference, and a TEDx lecture at UCLA.
Andrew Byrom is also a Professor, teaching Typography and Graphic Design History at California State University and USC.
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#AGI member Will Burtin (USA, inducted in 1955) The Brain, 1960
Education: until age 14. Studied typography at Hand werkskammer Köln while apprenticed, 1922–26; then studied art/graphics at Cologne Werkschulen. Established Entwurfe Burtin (Designs by Burtin), 1927–38. Taught in Berlin, marrying his student Hilde Munk, 1932. Hitler demanded Burtin become design director of the Propaganda Ministry (1938). Instead, he took his Jewish wife to New York, winning Federal Works Agency contract for 1939 World’s Fair. Freelance design for Time-Life, others. War work: OSS, designed aerial gunnery manuals. Art director for Fortune magazine, 1945– 49. From 1949 Will Burtin, Inc. served corporate clients, including Upjohn. Renowned for scientific models: Cell, Brain, Uranium Atom, others. After Hilde’s death he married Cipe Pineles. Will Burtin pioneered the fields of scientific visualization, information design, corporate identity and multimedia (he called it ‘Integration’). His large models foreshadowed computer-assisted virtual environments (CAVE).
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