79 Short Essays on Design

About Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut is responsible for leading a team of graphic designers who create identity design environmental graphic design and editorial design solutions at Pentagram. 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 fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg Germany; and the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich Switzerland. Bierut has been very active in the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) having served as the president of the New York Chapter from 1988 to 1990 and as the president of AIGA National from 1998 to 2001. He currently serves as a director of the Architectural League of New York and of New Yorkers for Parks. In 1989 Bierut was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale and in 2003 he was named to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.