Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz was born October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she initially studied painting but developed an interest in photography. Leibovitz applied for a job with the rock music magazine Rolling Stone in 1970. Impressed with Leibovitz’s portfolio, editor Jann Wenner offered her a job as a staff photographer. Within two years, Leibovitz was promoted to chief photographer at the age of 23 - a title she held for the next 10 years.
Paul Rand(Peretz Rosenbaum)(1914-1996) He is a famous american graphic designer, best known for designing corporate identities and posters.. Such as the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC. He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972 Early education 1929-1932 Studying in Pratt institute at night 1932-1933 the Parsons School of Design 1933-194 the Art Students League But Rand was by-and-large “self-taught as a designer,learning about the works of Cassandre and Moholy-Nagy from European magazines . He used to paint signs for his father’s grocery store as well as for school events at P.S.
In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era. He was born on September 8, 1954 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since then he has lived in and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe and lectured frequently around the world. Carson's first actual contact with graphic design was made in 1980 at the University of Arizona on a two week graphics course, taught by Jackson Boelts. He attended San Diego State University as well as Oregon College of Commercial Art.
After starting his first engineering job, he soon met Elisabeth Schmitt which he married and had a daughter with. Schaeffer’s family relocated to Paris where he began working at the Radioffusion-Television Francaise. With much persuasion Schaeffer convinced the corporation to initiate the science of musical acoustics with himself as the instructor. Spending months experimenting with all available equipment led to the discovery of the term known as Musique Concrete, this occurs when the needle on a record remains in one groove which in result creates a loop. All experimental work done in Schaeffer’s early professional life is what defines him as a pioneer of electronic music.
The Leslie Fay Companies Paul Polishan graduated with an accounting degree in 1969 and joined the Leslie Fay Companies shortly thereafter. Paul quickly became friends with the founder’s son, John Pomerantz. The Leslie Fay Companies, founded by Fred Pomerantz, was based out of New York and manufactured women’s apparel. Fred hired Polishan himself because he saw many similar traits in the young graduate (Knapp, 2013, p. 71). John Pomerantz, Fred’s son, was appointed President of the Leslie Fay Companies in 1972 and assumed responsibility for the company’s day to day operations.
Kara walker is an American artist, born 1969 in Stockton, California. She is well known for her work with silhouettes, which addresses America’s race issues. Power, repression, history, race, and sexuality are all themes of her artwork. Since she was three years old, Walker knew she wanted to be an artist like her dad. “One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw.
Today there are many different scene designers, but to me Ming Cho Lee was one of the most important and interesting. Lee was born in China, and said to be one of the most influential American scene designers during the last four decades of the 20th century. In Lee’s early life, his mother provided him with the opportunity to study ink drawing and landscape painting with the watercolorist Change Kwo-Nyen. Lee like his father, was a member of Yale's class of 1919, and his uncle was a graduate in 1918. This young designer grew up in an environment where English was the predominant language.
Summary * Burt’s Bees is a company that was founded in 1984 by Roxanne Quimby and Burt Shavitz in central Maine and produces beeswax-based natural skin care products and handmade crafts. * Burt’s Bees started with an investment of four hundred dollars when Quimby met Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine and an ex-photographer for Life and New York magazines * Quimby’s entrepreneurial lessons were learned at a very young age from her Harvard educated father. * Quimby started visiting all the local fairs so she could sell their products. * The first year sales were $ 81000 which seemed an unattainable amount to Quimby. * Burt’s Bee’s first big break came in 1989 at a wholesale show in Springfield, Massachusetts when one of their new creations, a teddy bear candle, was noticed by an up-scale Manhattan boutique store.
New York Times best-selling author, Janet Evanovich has written some attention grabbing, heart wrenching books throughout her years. She has also captured the attention of people across the nation by selling the rights to the first book in her Stephanie Plum series to Columbia Tristar. Does she create her stories purely from her imagination, or does her life influence how she writes her books? Janet Evanovich did not start out as a writer but as an artist. She studied art at Douglass College in New Jersey for four years before she realized that it was not right for her and decided to take up writing.
Self-portraits have been a method of self exploration used by many artists since before the invention of the mirror. An artist uses self-portraits to transcend the barrier of time and be immortalized in history. Norman Rockwell, one of the greatest American painter and illustrator, created a famous piece called Triple Self-Portrait, which can be interpreted as timeless; an attempt of the creator to be eternal. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. Since a little kid he knew that he wanted to be an artist, so he left high school to attend the Arts Student League, where he learned the technical skills on which he applied all through his career.