Michael Bierut

A brief introduction to Design Legend Michael Bierut and highlights of his best works.

Credit for the images and accompanying information goes to pentagram.com

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1. michaelbierut
2. michaelbierut biography
3. University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Vignelli Associates, Vice President of graphic design New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) President 1980 1988-1990 michaelbierut biography 1980-1990
4. Pentagram, Partner AIGA President Yale School of Design, Senior Critic 1990-Present 1998-2001 Present biography
5. publications michaelbierut
6. publications
7. michaelbierut works
8. Sign of the Times An intricate assemblage of nearly a thousand separate custom-designed pieces, each a painted extruded aluminum sleeve a little more than three inches in diameter. The sign is composed of 959 individual pieces.
9. Saks Fifth Avenue A new identity designed by Pentagram for iconic New York retailer Saks Fifth Avenue. He took the cursive logo, redrew it, and placed it in a black square. Then, we subdivided that square into a grid of 64 smaller squares.
10. The Atlantic
11. The Atlantic The nameplate is based on the 18th century typeface Bodoni, it featured an italic A that was distinctive and perfectly captured the idiosyncratic character of the magazine. The two fonts that were settled on for the cover provided the necessary mix of ingredients: Mercury, an elegant serif typeface, and Titling Gothic, a bold sans serif.
12. MAD Museum of Arts and Design’s geometric-based mark reflects the circles and squares present in the building’s shape and its location, on Columbus Circle. He then designed an entire alphabet and numbers made out of squares and circles. It was called MAD Face.
13. Children’s Museum
14. Library Murals The libraries are usually located in older buildings with high ceilings, but the shelves in the libraries can’t be built higher than kids can reach. This means there is a space between the top shelf and the ceiling, just begging for something special.
15. The Fashion Center
16. Saks Fifth Avenue 49 names of collections and designers were rendered in Cyrus Highsmith’s Novia and combined to form a number 3.
17. Seduction The Seduction symposium poster designed by Michael Bierut and Marian Bantjes for the Yale School of Architecture.
18. MoSex Sex in Design/Design in Sex is the identity for an exhibition. The provocative logo de- signed by Michael Bierut and Jennifer Kinon.
19. This Way to Fall Bierut has designed the Yale Architecture posters since 1998. The posters use dif- ferent kinds of arrows to point the way to fall programming
20. Doomsday Clock Michael has updated the image of the Dooms- day Clock, the graphic symbol of the world’s proximity to nuclear annihilation. The move for- ward reflects the increasing availability of nucle- ar weapons and the effects of climate change.
21. New York Signage Alliance for Downtown New York Streetscape signage for Lower Manhattan (2001) Typeface: Interstate
22. Others International Design Center, New York (IDCNY) invitation (1984) Good Diner identity (1992) Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) identity (1995)
23. Others Book design for Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist published by Booth-Clibborn Editions/Princeton Architectural Press (1998) The Architectural League of New York Light Years poster (1999)
24. Not everything is design, but design is about everything. “ ” michaelbierut
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