April Greiman

Greiman is recognized as one of the first graphic designers to embrace digital tools—particularly the Apple Macintosh and early video imaging systems—as a primary creative medium in the 1980s. She bridged European New Wave typography, which she studied in Basel under Wolfgang Weingart, with the emerging possibilities of computer-generated imagery.

Her 1986 issue of Design Quarterly, a fold-out self-portrait titled 'Does It Make Sense?,' is considered a landmark of digital design. The piece was created entirely on a Macintosh computer and combined digitized photographic imagery, layering, and typography at a time when such techniques were virtually unheard of in professional graphic design.

Greiman studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and later at the Allgemeine Kunstgewerbeschule (now the Basel School of Design) in Switzerland, where she studied under Wolfgang Weingart. Weingart's post-Swiss approach to typography, sometimes called New Wave or Swiss Punk, deeply influenced her later work in Los Angeles.

Greiman has been based in Los Angeles since the late 1970s and operates the design studio Made in Space. Her work spans print, digital media, environmental graphics, and fine art, and she has produced large-scale public installations for clients including the Washington D.C. Metro and the City of Los Angeles.