Cipe Pineles

Cipe Pineles
Born	June 23, 1908 Vienna, Austria
Died	January 3, 1991 Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y.
Occupation	Graphic Designer Art Director

Graphic Designer

Cipe Pineles (June 23, 1908 – January 3, 1991) was an Austrian-born graphic designer and art director who made her career in New York at such magazines as Seventeen, Charm and Mademoiselle. She was known for her trailblazing as the first female art director of many major magazines, as well as being credited as the first person to bring fine art into mainstream mass-produced media. She married two prominent designers, twice widowed, and had two children and two grandchildren.

Pineles was born June 23, 1908 in Vienna. She came to the United States at the age of 13, attended Bay Ridge High School in Brooklyn and won a Tiffany Foundation Scholarship to Pratt Institute from 1927-1931. She continued her education in 1930 at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

Pineles was married to two notable designers. She and William Golden were married from 1939 until his death in 1959. She and Will Burtin were married from 1961 until his death in 1972. Pineles died in 1991. Pineles had a son, Thomas Pineles Golden with William Golden and a daughter, Carol Burtin Fripp, with Will Burtin, along with two grandchildren. She suffered from kidney disease and ultimately died of a heart attack.

Pineles had a nearly 60-year-long career in design. She started her career at the age of 23 at Contempora after struggling to enter the work force due to sexism in the industry. She worked there from 1931-1933 until Condé Nast’s wife noticed Pineles’ work at Contempora. In 1932 (to 1936) she became an assistant to M. F. Agha, the art director of Condé Nast Publications. Agha, testing new ideas with photography and layout, allowed Pineles great independence, therefore she designed a considerable number of projects on her own. She soon became the art director for Glamour, publication directed at young women; this is where her style as a playful modernist developed through various uses of image and type.

Pineles also worked with female designer Estelle Ellis, who became the promotion director of Charm, the "magazine for women who work," in 1944. She worked for Vogue in New York and London (1932–38) and Overseas Woman in Paris (1945–46). She continued to develop her distinct style throughout her career and in 1942, she became art director of Glamour. She went on to become the Art Director at Seventeen (1947-1950), then Charm (1950–59) and moved in 1961 to become art director of Mademoiselle in New York. From 1961 to 1972 she worked as a graphic design consultant for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, supervising the creation of branding and marketing materials for this institution of the arts.

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