April Greiman

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April Greiman, 2012

April Greiman (born March 22, 1948 in Long Island City ) is an American graphic designer and typographer . She is considered one of the most influential graphic artists in the field of digital media.

Life

Greiman studied graphic design from 1966 to 1970 at the Kansas City Art Institute and from 1970 to 1971 in Basel at the Allgemeine Kunstgewerbeschule, today's Basel School of Design in Switzerland. There she was a student of Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart . In 1976 she moved to Los Angeles and established the approach to developing computers as a design tool. Together with the photographer Jayme Odgers, she designed a famous Cal Arts poster in 1977, which, like other works, shaped the California New Wave style. In 1982 she became head of the design department at the California Institute of the Arts . In the 1980s, April Greiman soon recognized the creative possibilities of the new computer technology from Apple Macintosh and Quantel Paintbox and was one of the first to fully exploit them. Together with her husband, the architect Michael Rotondo, she created the interior design of Miracle Manor in Joshua Tree National Park . She currently runs a studio in Los Angeles called Made in Space. She taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, Woodbury University and from 1993 to 2005 at the Southern California Institute of Architecture . She worked for the architects Frank O. Gehry , RoTo Architects as well as for the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles, for AOL / Time Warner, Microsoft and the US Postal Service .

Awards

  • 1985 Vesta Award for Outstanding Achievements of Women
  • 1987 National Endowment of the Arts Grant
  • 1994 Bronze Medal for From the Edge: Southern California Institute of Architecture, Best Books of the World, Der Stiftung Buchkunst Prämiert
  • 1997 50 Best Books of the Year, AIGA, for From the Center, Design Process @ SCIARC catalog
  • 1998 Medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts
  • 1998 Chrysler Award for Innovation
  • 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Typographic Arts

Special work

  • 1986 Design Quarterly # 133: 'Does it Make Sense?', Pompidou, MOMA, LACMA, SFMOMA
  • 1989 Graphic Design in America, Exhibition, Billboard and Poster, Walker Art Center Traveling Show
  • 1994 'It'snotwhatAprilyouthinkitGreimanis' Exhibition, Arc en Rêve, Center d'Architecture, Bordeaux, France
  • 1995 19th Amendment Stamp
  • 2001 The Great Welcome Mat / Zoids, Sears, Public Art Commission, Burbank
  • 2006 Drive-by Shooting: April Greiman Digital Photography, Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of California Art
  • 2007 Wilshire Vermont: Hand Holding A Bowl of Rice, Public Art Commission
  • 2014 Apple Documentary Movie, MAC @ 30

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personal data
SURNAME Greiman, April
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American graphic designer and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island City