{{Short description|American designer and artist (born 1942)}} {{Infobox person | name = Michael Manwaring | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|03|21}} | birth_place = Palo Alto, California, US | death_date = | death_place = | education = San Francisco Art Institute | occupation = | known_for = | movement = Pacific Wave design movement | website = https://www.manwaring.com/ }}
'''Michael Manwaring''' (born March 21, 1942)<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Carter|first=Rob|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCFUAAAAMAAJ|title=American Typography Today|date=1989|publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold|isbn=978-0-442-22106-5|pages=69|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last1=Morgan|first1=Ann Lee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb1QAAAAMAAJ|title=Contemporary Designers|last2=Naylor|first2=Colin|date=1984|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-2036-9|pages=338|language=en|quote=Born in Palo Alto, California, 21 March 1942. Studied under James Robertson, Gordon Ashby, and Barbara and Jack Stauffacher}}</ref> is an American designer, artist, and former principal of design firm '''The Office of Michael Manwaring'''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kyōkai|first=Nihon Kurieitāzu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tY2AQAAIAAJ|title=West Meets East|date=1988|publisher=JCA Press|volume=1|pages=137|language=en}}</ref> He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic design, that later became known as the "Pacific Wave".
Manwaring lived in San Francisco for more than 40 years, before moving to Portland, Oregon, in 2006.
== Biography == Manwaring was born March 21, 1942, in Palo Alto, California.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> He also grew up in Palo Alto, near Stanford University, where his father taught.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Karlin|first=Sean|date=2020-12-17|title=Iconic Bayview sign comes down for vital community center: Here's its surprising history|url=https://48hills.org/2020/12/iconic-bayview-sign-removed-for-vital-community-center-heres-its-surprising-history/|access-date=2020-12-31|website=48 hills|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Meckel|first=David|date=2015-12-07|title=Fellow Awards 2013 Interview: Michael Manwaring|url=http://aigasf.org/fellow-awards-2013-interview-michael-manwaring/|access-date=2020-12-31|website=AIGA San Francisco|language=en-US}}</ref>
Manwaring attended San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and studied design with Jim Robertson of the Robertson Montgomery design firm, as well as with Gordon Ashby, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, and Jack Stauffacher.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Camuffo|first=Giorgio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3zsAAAAMAAJ&q=Michael+Manwaring|title=Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design|date=1987|publisher=Magnus|isbn=978-88-7057-070-0|language=it}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> In his early career, he was inspired by the Swiss designer Josef Muller-Brockmann and his 'Beethoven poster'.<ref name=":2" /> While in college he started freelance work designing film posters for the San Francisco Surf Theater on Irving Street and 48th Street.<ref name=":1" /> He also worked on the IBM-sponsored Astronomia exhibition (1964) at the Hayden Planetarium in New York with designer Gordon Ashby.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" />
Manwarning designed public signage for a number of cities in the Bay Area during the 1970s through 1990s, often integrating large-scale supergraphics.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F9kxAQAAIAAJ|title=Communication Arts|date=1994|publisher=Coyne & Blanchard|volume=36|issue=1|pages=107|language=en}}</ref> In the 1970s, Manwaring designed an iconic public art sign in the Bayview neighborhood that reads, "India Basin Industrial Park" in concrete letters set in Helvetica font.<ref name=":2" /> In 1996, he designed the Embarcadero interpretive signage alongside historian Nancy Leigh Olmstead, a 2.5 mile-long walk along San Francisco's Embarcadero neighborhood with 22 signs sharing historical relevance of the location.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2000-01-28|title=Embarcadero Interpretive Signage and Walkway|url=https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/embarcadero-interpretive-signage-and-walkway.html|access-date=2021-01-01|website=San Francisco Art and Architecture|language=en-US}}</ref>
In the 1980s, a few San Francisco–based designers were nicknamed “The Michaels” because they all had the same name (Manwaring, alongside Mabry, Cronan, Vanderbyl, Schwab), and later they became known as the "Pacific Wave" according to the design historian Steven Heller<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=2014 AIGA Medalist: Michael Cronan|url=https://www.aiga.org/medalist-michael-cronan|access-date=2020-12-31|website=American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Camuffo|first=Giorgio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3zsAAAAMAAJ|title=Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design|publisher=Magnus|others=April Greiman, Museo Fortuny|year=1987|isbn=9788870570700}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bierut|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPSKDwAAQBAJ|title=Now You See It and Other Essays on Design|date=2019-03-12|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-1-61689-676-8|pages=184|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|date=26 January 1986|title=Michael: They Have Come To Symbolize San Francisco Design|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/461357152/?terms=%22Michael%20Mabry%22&match=1|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-01-01|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=The San Francisco Examiner|pages=23–27|language=en}}</ref> and described by exhibit curator and author Giorgio Camuffo in ''Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Camuffo |first=Giorgio |title=Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design |publisher=Magnus |year=1987 |isbn=9788870570700 |location=Pennsylvania State University |pages=108 |language=en}}</ref> Manwaring was known for his projects that incorporated environmental graphics in addition to traditional graphic design.<ref name=":6" />
In 2006, he moved to Portland, Oregon.<ref name=":1" />
Manwaring's work is a part of several public museum collections, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manwaring, Michael|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/michael_manwaring/|access-date=2020-12-31|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}}</ref> and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Steinberger|first=Staci|date=2019-01-09|title=Behind the Designs|url=https://unframed.lacma.org/2019/01/09/behind-designs|access-date=2020-12-31|website=Unframed LACMA}}</ref>
== Publications == * {{Cite book|last=Tropp|first=Barbara|title=The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking: Techniques and Recipes|publisher=William Morrow Cookbooks|others=Bill Chiaravalle (illustrator), Allan Rosenberg (photographer), The Office of Michael Manwaring (designer)|year=1996|isbn=9780688146115}}
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== Further reading == * {{Cite book|last1=Igarashi|first1=Takenobu|title=Seven Graphic Designers: Michael Manwaring, Woody Pirtle, Takenobu Igarashi, April Greiman, Gerald Reis, Koichi Sato, Michael Vanderbyl|last2=Vignelli|first2=Massimo|last3=Thornton|first3=Richard S.|publisher=Mitsumura Printing Company|year=1985|isbn=9784766103472|location=Tokyo, Japan}}
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