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Most Influential Designer of the Past 50 Years

We surveyed our readers and asked them, "Who is the Most Influential Designer of the Past 50 Years?

1.  Milton Glaser
2.  Paul Rand
3.  Saul Bass
4.  Herb Lubalin
5.  Massimo Vignelli
6.  David Carson
7.  Peter Saville
8.  Paula Scher
9.  Stefan Sagmeister
10. Lou Dorfsman
11. Walter Landor
12. Seymour Chwast
13. Jan Tschichold
14. Ivan Chermayeff
15. Susan Kare

 OTHERS WHO RECEIVED MULTIPLE VOTES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
Primo Angeli
Charles S. Anderson
Herbert Bayer
Peter Behrens
Michael Bierut
Neville Brody
Robert Brownjohn
Margo Chase
Stan Church
Moira Cullen
Hillman Curtis
Paul Davis
Stephen Doyle
Joe Duffy
Shepard Fairey
Pablo Ferro
Tom Geismar
Steff Geissbuhler
Carin Goldberg
William Golden
April Greiman
Cheryl Heller
Steven Heller
Kit Hinrichs
Armin Hofmann
Mirko Ilic
Jonathan Ive
Alexander Isley
Tibor Kalman
Chip Kidd
Barbara Kruger
Raymond Loewy
Alvin Lustig
John Maeda
John Massey
Herbert Matter
Bruce Mau
Clement Mok
Josef Muller-Brockman
Cipe Pineles
Paul Sahre
Mary Scott
George Tscherny
Deborah Sussman
Ladislav Sutnar
Rick Tharp
Bradbury Thompson
Rick Valicenti
Rudy VanderLans
Jurek Wajdowicz
John Waters
Andy Warhol
Richard Saul Wurman
Lance Wyman
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