Mehmed fehmy agha biography of barack

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Mehemed Fehmy Agha was instrumental in defining the role of the magazine art director in the early 20th century. His education ranged broadly from a degree in economics from the Emperor Peter the Great Polytechnic Institute in Kiev to a degree in Oriental languages in Paris. He pursued training in the arts, and achieved proficiencies in photography, typography, and the sciences.

With a commanding personality and unshakeable confidence he rose to prominence at the Paris and Berlin offices of Vogue. Agha introduced Sans-serif types, photographs by such luminaries as Edward Steichen, Carl Van Vechten, and Edward Weston, as well as the pictorial feature. He became president of both the Art Directors Club and AIGA and enjoyed a near mythic status as an arbiter of good taste in design.

Make something legible, present it logically and make it look somehow luxurious So they devise not merely one version of how they think a page should look, but ten, or twenty, or forty And for sheer productivity this method is unequalled.

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As for those bales of rejected layouts that have never seen the light of day; I don't think they are completely wasted. Some day, a less jaded scholar of the Graphic Arts will unearth them and discover again the amazing amount of original and exciting work that was stimulated by the man who knew too much to like anything.

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