Harriet Goren

Harriet Goren is an American graphic designer and artist.

Early life

She attended Orthodox synagogue until as a "...teenager with serious doubts about religion", she ceased going. [1] She sang in amateur choirs and eventually began to chant the Torah. [2] She studied at Yale University, where she completed her BA in Arts (with a concentration in painting).[3]

Career

Goren designs logos and fonts, and does the graphic design for websites, books, flyers and newsletters. [4] In 2002, Goren launched her own graphic design company, named Harriet R Goren Design.[5] Prior to that, she was senior art director at Iguana Studios, a web development firm, and design director at Sloan Group.[6] She teaches graphic design at Touro College.[7]

With her firm, she works with her clients and asks them questions about their business or service in order to develop a "mutually satisfactory visual design".[8] She asks clients questions to find out what their style is and find out what type of message they want to get across.[9] She has found that it can be hard to communicate thoughts and concepts visually. To help transform concepts into images, she asks clients "metaphoric questions".[10]

She created a font, Morire, that was part of the experimental "grunge typography" movement of the 1990s, so-named because it shared aesthetic principles with the music genre of the same name. Other graphic designers who developed grunge typography included Hat Nguyen (Droplet) and Eric Lin (Tema Canante).[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.gorenjudaica.com/pages/about-us
  2. ↑ http://www.gorenjudaica.com/pages/about-us
  3. ↑ http://harrietrgorendesign.com/159572/a-b-o-u-t/
  4. ↑ Otis, Laura. Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists. Oxford University Press, 2015. p. 179
  5. ↑ http://harrietrgorendesign.com/159572/a-b-o-u-t/
  6. ↑ http://harrietrgorendesign.com/159572/a-b-o-u-t/
  7. ↑ http://harrietrgorendesign.com/159572/a-b-o-u-t/
  8. ↑ Otis, Laura. Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists. Oxford University Press, 2015. p. 179
  9. ↑ Otis, Laura. Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists. Oxford University Press, 2015. p. 179
  10. ↑ Otis, Laura. Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists. Oxford University Press, 2015. p. 179
  11. ↑ Shetty, Sharan (August 21, 2012). "The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography". The Awl. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ Palladino, Valentina (December 27, 2013). "Angst, imagination, and the Ray Gun Effect: a history of grunge typography". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
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