Designer Research 5x5x5

Stefan Sagmeister

Look up the work of 5 or more of the world's top designers. Find out 5 interesting points about the each of you 5 chosen designers related to their career as a designer and 5 designs by them that shows off their distinct style.

You can select from the list below of graphic designers or any genre of design: graphic design, fashion, costume, jewelry design, furniture, industrial design, architecture, landscape, interior, urban, game design, skateboard/skate park, amusement park,  board game design, web design,  product, packaging, brand, communication design, user interface/experience design,...


You will share your favourite designer with the class- 5 interesting points related to their career, and 5 images.

Later, we are going to try to adopt their style to create something cool.

Share your favorite designer with the class in this Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NLQctSb3KuQGZ35cDddZGkIl0whvjQL5HnhDq7ixudw/edit?usp=sharing.

Here are some famous graphic designers:

1. David Carson
2. Armin Hofmann
3. John Maeda
4. Michael Bierut
5. Saul Bass
6. Stefan Sagmeister
7. Paula Scher
8. Paul Rand
9. Peter Saville
10. Massimo Vignelli
11. Jessica Walsh
12. Shigeo Fukuda
13. Erik Spiekermann
14. Rick Poynor
15. Wim Crouwel 
16. Matthew Carter
17. Wolfgang Weingart
18. April Greiman
19. Abram Games
20. David Airey
21. Louise Fili
22. Seymour Chwast
23. Irma Boom
24. Marian Bantjes
25. Lester Beall
26. Henry Steiner
27. Anton Stankowski
28. Susan Kare
29. Jon Hicks
30. Katherine McCoy
31. Shepard Fairey

TED: Designer Stefan Sagmeister-shares happy design