Cipe pineles vogue cover

Cipe pineles impact

Shop now. Today, women make up around half of the graphic design profession. But when Cipe Pineles was looking for her first design job, prospective employers were interested in her portfolio—until they learned that the unusual first name belonged to a woman. Designing for magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair , she learned all about editorial design, art direction, and European modernism.

Agha pushed her to consistently outdo herself and to find inspiration in fine art. She became art director at Glamour in , the first female to hold that position at a major American magazine. She moved on to be art director at Seventeen , a magazine for teenage girls edited by Helen Valentine. While competing titles saw young women as frivolous husband hunters, Seventeen considered its readers smart and serious.

Cipe pineles artwork

By commissioning fine artists like Ad Reinhardt, Ben Shahn, and Andy Warhol to illustrate articles, Pineles rejected the idealized style typical of magazine illustrations at the time, and exposed her audience to modern art. As an artist herself, she was a hands-off art director. Her only request: that the artists produce illustrations that were as high in quality as their gallery work.

Figure 1 Seventeen cover, photograph by Francesco Scavullo, Figure 2 Charm cover, In , Pineles became art director at Charm , a magazine targeting a new demographic: working women. She designed fashion spreads showing the clothes in use—at work, commuting, and running errands.