Deborah Sussman has worked at the interface of graphic design and the built environment for more than 30 years. She has created striking visual imagery and devised its imaginative application for architectural and public spaces both permanent and temporary, including the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Seattle’s opera house, and Disney World. Throughout her career Sussman has claimed an ever more expansive role for graphic design in the urban landscape.
Sussman uses graphic design to emphasize aspects of the built environment and to provide rich connections to the communities and cultures in which it will participate.
I chose to put Sussman on my blog because she is a legend and shes a woman! Most of the greatest graphic designers are men so I wanted to do a little research on what woman have played their parts in graphic design and how well they have done for themselves and other companies. I am not very familiar with Deborah Sussman but I have seen her work around and about and it is very good.
“Although environmental graphic design started as architectural signage—hence, graphics—a flat discipline turned out to be inadequate in a round world. An exhibition, for example, is more than a book on a wall or an arrangement of artifacts under glass. It is the engagement of people as they move through space. Sussman/Prejza carries this engagement into stores and other public spaces, and into designed events—a contextual approach that brought the company international renown with the 1984 summer Olympics.”
—Ralph Caplan, “Beyond Sussman/Prejza: Jungle Rhythms in Environmental Graphic Design,” Process Architecture 124, 1994.
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