Michael Bierut is a son of Ohio, an internationally recognized name in design and is a leading innovator in the field of Visual Communication. Amongst his greatest achievements: He began his illustrious career at big time firm Vignelli Associates. Following huge success there he moved on to the firm Pentagram where he is a partner. In his time there he's worked for big names such as United Airlines, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Walt Disney. He was president of the New York Chapter of AIGA for 2 years and head of the national association for 3 years. His work can be found at MOMA and the National Design Museum in New York, SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Library of Congress as well as numerous other locations both in the US and even 2 abroad in Germany and Switzerland. He assisted with the film Helvetica, commemorative of the print face's 50th anniversary. He likes to spread his theory that design can be analogous to entertaining aspects like "baseball, movies or a piece of music." This withdraws the detachment some can get from many abstract design ideas. He is the founder of the online design journal/magazine Design Observer. He also is a member of the Architectural League of New York and New Yorkers for Parks as he designed many signs downtown NYC for directing tourists. Finally his top awards for design are an induction into the Art Directors Hall of Fame and into he Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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