Michaels elegant and engaging design embodies European and American sensibilities. He makes each work unique by reducing his need to communicate with powerful and sensitive essentials.- Seymour Chwast, designer, illustrator, type designer
Michael Schwab has the unique ability to make anything from wine to opera to jazz look alluring, authentic, and seductive. His images carry his unmistakable imprimatur, yet each is his own invention.- Louise Fili, designer
There is a classic quality to his work contemporary, but never trendy that unique point of view. - Robert Redford, actor, director, producer, activist
As an architect relies on concrete and steel, Schwab uses black to build forms that prompt both immediate recognition and lasting memory.- Steven Heller, art director, journalist, critic, author
Michael Schwab recalls the tradition of the Ukiyo-e as transmitted by the french fin de Siècle artists, Felix Vallotton, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, making it a style that is deceptively simple and powerfully effective.- David Lance Goines, poster artist, printer, author
A heroic silhouette. Negative and positive space, expertly visualized. Perfectly kerned type. The quintessential image of a swimmer, a landscape, a profile. Michaels images are always uniquely, and memorably, Michaels.- Jennifer Morla, designer and founder, Morla Design
I adore Michaels work the strength and stillness. His portraits tell a story of his relationship with the subject. Theres a lot of Michael in his art.- Amy Tan, author
Michaels images are hard to ignore and seemingly jump up and grab you from the surface of the paper. - Novum Gebrauschsgraphik
Michael lives in the shadows. And that is a beautiful thing. - Rich Silverstein, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
