Cipe Pineles

Cipe Pineles (June 23, 1908 – January 3, 1991) was an Austrian-born graphic designer and art director who made her career in New York at such magazines as Seventeen, Charm and Mademoiselle. In 1943, Pineles became the first female member of the Art Directors Club. She was later inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1975.[1] In 1984 she was honoured by the Society of Publication Designers with Herb Lubalin Award.Pineles received the AIGA Medal in 1996.[2] In 1955 she became the first and until 1968 only female member of the AGI.

Biography

Pineles was born June 23, 1908 in Vienna. She came to the United States at the age of 13 and studied from 1927 to 1931 at the Pratt Institute,[1] and in 1930 at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.[3] From 1931 to 1933 she was a designer at the Contemporary Industrial Design Studio. In 1932 (to 1936) she became an assistant to M. F. Agha, the art director of Condé Nast Publications. Agha, testing new ideas with photography and layout, allowed Pineles great independence therefore she designed a considerable number of projects on her own.[4] She soon became the art director for Glamour, publication directed at young women; this is where her style as a playful modernist developed through various uses of image and type.[4] She worked for Vogue in New York and London (1932–38) and Overseas Woman in Paris (1945–46). She continued to develop her distinct style throughout her career and in 1947, she became art director of Seventeen (1947-1950), then Charm (1950–59) and moved in 1961 to become art director of Mademoiselle in New York. From 1961 to 1972 she worked as a graphic design consultant for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.

Pineles also worked with female designer Estelle Ellis, who became the promotion director of Charm, the "magazine for women who work," in 1944.[4]

Pineles joined the faculty of Parsons School of Design in 1963 and was also its director of publication design.[5] Positions at the Cooper Union (in 1977), and at Harvard University in Cambridge (in 1978) followed. She was honoured with numerous awards.

Pineles was married to two notable designers. She and William Golden were married from 1939 until his death in 1959. She and Will Burtin were married from 1961 until his death in 1972. Pineles died in 1991.[5]

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  1. 1 2 http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1975/?id=282
  2. ↑ http://www.aiga.org/medalist-cipepineles/
  3. ↑ http://adcglobal.org/hall-of-fame/cipe-pineles-burtin/
  4. 1 2 3 Kirkham, Pat (2000). Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 369–370.
  5. 1 2 http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/05/obituaries/cipe-pineles-burtin-is-dead-at-82-first-woman-in-art-directors-club.html

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