Gene Greif (September 11, 1954 – November 27, 2004) was a
graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...
who specialized in creating
album cover art
An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to either the printed paperboard covers typically used to package sets of and 78-r ...
.
Greif attended
LaGuardia High School of Music and Art
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, often referred to simply as LaGuardia, is a public high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square ...
and the
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...
where he first majored in architecture before graduating with a BFA in graphic design. In 1976, he became an art director for CBS Records where he designed album covers. He began his freelance career in 1983, working for ''Time'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Fortune'', AOL, Time Warner, and Knoll, among others.
Greif died on November 27, 2004, from
hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis. During the initial infection people often have mild or no symptoms. Occasionally a fever, dark urine, a ...
complications.
References
1954 births
2004 deaths
Artists from Queens, New York
American graphic designers
Album-cover and concert-poster artists
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
Cooper Union alumni
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