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Michael Bierut (born 1957) is a graphic designer, design critic and educator. Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.〔(Biography at Pentagram )〕 Bierut was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates. Since 1990 he has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram.〔(Biography at Pentagram )〕 According to his Pentagram online biography: Bierut "is responsible for leading a team of graphic designers who create identity design, environmental graphic design and editorial design solutions. He has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in several permanent collections including: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); the Denver Art Museum; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany; and the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, Switzerland."〔()〕 Bierut served as the national president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1998 to 2001. Bierut is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. Bierut is also the co-editor of three Looking Closer graphic design anthologies. He is also a founding writer of the Design Observer blog with Rick Poynor, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand.〔(Design Observer )〕 Bierut currently serves on the governing board of the ''Bulletin of Atomic Scientists''; in January, 2007, he redesigned the ''Bulletin's'' Doomsday Clock to give it a more modern feel. Bierut is also known for his involvement in the film ''Helvetica''.〔(''Helvetica'' ) IMDb listing ("Full credits"); Michael Bierut appeared as himself. Retrieved 2014-03-03.〕 ==Early life and education== Michael Bierut was born in 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio. During his time in Ohio, graphic design was not promoted to young adults. His love of fine art, music, and drawing that united in the form of album covers led him to the only two books in the library at the time on design, the ''Graphic Design Manual'' by Armin Hofman and ''Milton Glaser: Graphic Design''. He did not need any more convincing and studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.〔Graphic Communications〕 While in school, he did an internship that allowed him to study under Chris Pullman, another AIGA medalist. They worked together at a Boston public television station, WGBH. Michael Bierut graduated in 1980 from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Before becoming partners with Pentagram in 1990 he worked ten years Vignelli Associates, as a vice president. When he was working for Vignelli Associates he had serious industry clout but it also implanted a keystone principle of his career. "Probably the most interesting thing I learned is that a lot of the things about design that tend to get designers really interested aren't that important," Bierut once said to Steven Heller. Bierut acknowledges that people might not actually read the annual reports and corporate brochures that designers make. So he strives to make things that people are able to read and want to read. Pullman has stated that, "He has a quality that I have much respect for in the kind of work that we do" and "He's a person who's very easy to understand, both when you talk to him and when he's doing his work. He's accessible, humane, funny when it's appropriate, and witty almost all of the time. And that's a very important quality for someone who wants to be a communicator."〔2006 AIGA Medal〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Bierut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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