"Michael (Bierut) has built his career on making himself, his work, his personality, his opinions, available and in the process has become one of the best known and most well regarded designers in the world." (http://facingsideways.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/interview-with-michael-bierut/)Bierut hosts his own blog: http://www.designobserver.com/ as well as being a partner in Pentagram's New York office. An internationally accaclamimed designer, he has done work for Harley-Davidson, The Walt Disney Company, Motorola, and the New York Jets in addition to having his work housed in permanent design collections in New York and Montreal. (http://www.designobserver.com/author.html?author=1047)
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| Saks 5th Avenue Bag re-design |
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| poster for Yale's School of Architecture |
His style uses many of the classic swiss style techniques and is influenced by his 10 years working for Massimo Vignelli where he learnt formalism—the rules, the grid. His work often uses cut-off type and has a humour or wit, like his “Scale” poster with the great big circle and the small word scale.
Paula Scher for the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame 2003(http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/2003/?id=197
