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INSPIRATION PROFILE
Bea Feitler
Bea Feitler was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1938. After working on album covers, book jackets, magazines, and poster designs, she left Brazil and moved to Manhattan. In 1961 — and still only 25 years old — she became an art assistant, then one of the youngest and first female co-art directors at Harper’s Bazaar.
Even if you didn’t study graphic design at art school, you might know a few famous names. With over a century of commercial art direction, there are plenty more names to discover. People who have done astonishing work which can encourage and inspire us to think about the web more creatively.
Just like Alexey Brodovitch — who’d stepped down from Harper’s Bazaar before her move to the United States — Feitler’s collaborations with artists and photographers helped define her work. At Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon’s photograph of model Jean Shrimpton in her famous pink space helmet, then Annie Leibovitz’s naked John Lennon on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Although Feitler never met Brodovitch, it’s fascinating to see how she respected then developed his legacy. Feitler understood that magazine pages should be deliberately and individually constructed, yet at the same time should be connected to one another to form a harmonious rhythm.
As a mentor and teacher, Feitler shared many principles with Alexey Brodovitch. She encouraged her students to develop their own direction, and many themselves became prominent art directors. Feitler was demanding and accepted nothing less than the very highest standards of design excellence from everybody.
Sadly, Bea Feitler died from cancer in 1982 aged just 44. I believe she has as much to teach those of us who design for the web as she did the magazine art directors who followed her. I hope her life and work will influence us to have courage in our convictions and make our own brave and confident choices.