Typographers, poster artists, and other graphic designers.
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Maurice Sendak (born 1928)
American illustrator, author and set designer.
- Author and illustrator of several popular children''s books
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Edward Burne-Jones (born 1833, died 1898)
English Pre-Raphaelite artist.
- Painter, illustrator and designer of stained glass and tiles
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Walter Crane (born 1845, died 1915)
English illustrator, painter, cartoonist and designer.
- Set the standard for quality book illustrations
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Claud Lovat Fraser
- British designer and illustrator
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George Grosz (born 1893, died 1959)
German artist.
- Known for his grotesque caricatures of post-World War I bourgeois life
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Andrzej Klimowski
- British designer and poster artist
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Paul Nash (born 1889, died 1946)
British painter, illustrator and photographer.
- An official war artist in both WWI and WWII
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Howard Pyle (born 1853, died 1911)
American illustrator and author.
- Illustrated his classic retelling of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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Norman Rockwell (born 1894, died 1978)
American artist who drew hundreds of Saturday Evening Post magazine covers.
- The best-known American illustrator of the 20th century
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Ben Shahn (born 1898, died 1969)
American artist.
- Lithographer whose work treated social and political themes
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Jan Toorop
Dutch painter and poster artist.
- A leader of the Luminist and Divisionism movements
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Saul Bass (born 1920, died 1996)
American film designer and director.
- Known for his creative use of animated type
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Herbert Bayer (born 1900, died 1985)
Austrian-born American graphic designer, painter and architect.
- Known for his work in advertising
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Max Bill (born 1908, died 1994)
Swiss architect and graphic designer.
- Co-founder of the College of Design in Ulm, West Germany
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Will Bradley
American graphic designer.
- Known for his Art Nouveau posters and magazine covers
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Neville Brody
- British art director and graphic designer
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Barney Bubbles
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Adolphe-Jean-Marie Mouron (Cassandre) (born 1901, died 1968)
French poster artist, typographer, painter and set designer.
- Co-founded the Alliance Graphique ad agency in 1926
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William Addison Dwiggins (born 1880, died 1956)
American book designer, typographer, illustrator and puppeteer.
- Designed the Caledonia, Electra, Eldorado and Metro typefaces
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Lyonel Feininger (born 1871, died 1956)
American graphic designer and painter.
- Led workshops at the Bauhaus
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Barnett Freedman
- British illustrator and designer
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Abram Games
- British poster artist and graphic designer
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Josse Goffin
- Belgian designer and illustrator
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John Heartfield
German graphic artist and inventor of photomontage.
- Known for his anti-Nazi poster art
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Selwyn Image
- British designer and graphic artist
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Johannes Itten
Swiss painter, sculptor and educator.
- Developed the basic design curriculum used at the Bauhaus
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Egbert Jacobson
- American design executive
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Tibor Kalman
- American graphic designer
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Edward Kauffer
American graphic designer and poster artist.
- Known for his work in the Art Deco style
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Lazar El Lissitzky (born 1890, died 1941)
Russian panter, designer and typographer.
- Known for his abstract, geometric works
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Joao Machado
- Portuguese graphic designer
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Herbert Matter (born 1907, died 1984)
Swiss-American photographer and ad designer.
- Known for his use of photomontage
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Vaughan Oliver
- British graphic designer and typographer
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Maxfield Parrish (born 1870, died 1966)
American illustrator.
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Alexander Rodchenko (born 1891)
Russian designer and typographer.
- Associated with the Constructivist movement of the early Soviet era
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Bruce Rogers (born 1870, died 1957)
American book and type designer.
- Designed the Montaigne, Centaur and Riverside Caslon typefaces
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Ruedi Röegg
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Niklaus Stoecklin
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Armando Testa
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Jan Tschichold
Calligrapher and typographer.
- Known for his use of classical letter styles
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Kurt Schwitters (born 1887, died 1948)
German painter, collagist and poet.
- Associated with the Dada movement
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John Baskerville (born 1706, died 1775)
English printer and type designer.
- Designed the Baskerville typeface
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Aubrey Beardsley (born 1872, died 1898)
English illustrator.
- Illustrated Oscar Wilde''s play Salomé
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Giambattista Bodoni (born 1740, died 1813)
Italian printer and typographer.
- Designed the Bodoni typeface
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Hablot Knight Browne (born 1815, died 1882)
British illustrator.
- Illustrated several of Charles Dickens'' books, including David Copperfield
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Randolph Caldecott (born 1846, died 1886)
English illustrator.
- The Caldecott Medal, for the best work in illustrating an American children''s book, was named in his honor
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William Caslon (born 1692, died 1766)
English typographer.
- Designed the Caslon typeface, one of the first to depart from reliance on handwritten models
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Romain de Tirtoff (Erté) (born 1892, died 1990)
Russian-born fashion illustrator and set and costume designer.
- A key figure of the Art Deco movement
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Claude Garamond (born 1499, died 1561)
French publisher and type designer.
- Created many typefaces, though not the modern ones that bear his name
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Pol de Limburg
Fourtheenth-century Flemish illuminator.
- With his brothers, Herman and Jehanequin, produced the Très Riches Heures du duc du Berry
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Herman de Limburg
Fourteenth-century Flemish illuminator.
- With his brothers, Pol and Jehanequin, produced the Très Riches Heures du duc du Berry
