Plunkett + Kuhr

John Pluckett and Barbara Kuhr are founding members of Wired. They both hold the position of Creative Directors. They live in Park City, Utah and work there and San Francisco.

In the early 1980s, John and Barbara were working in Paris. They had been hired to design all the new signs for the Louvre, as consultants to Carbone Smolan, the architect who remodeled the famous art museum. After the Louvre project had ended, Barbara and John were running low on funds and looking for work.

In 1984, they met Louis in Paris when John answered an classified ad in the International Herald Tribune. Louis was looking for an American graphic designer to design a newsletter that he was editing. John recalls the first time they met Louis,

"We looked in this window of a fourteenth century building and there was this guy working on the first Macintosh we had ever seen. And that was Louis Rossetto."

In 1990, when Jane and Louis returned from Amsterdam after closing down Electric Word, they landed in New York where John and Barbara were living. Barbara designed the first Wired prototype that Louis and Jane used while searching for funding.

John is concentrating his energy on Wired's design, including design for Wired UK and Wired Japan, while Barbara is wrestling with the ever-changing standards of the Web for Wired's cyberstation, HotWired. In a recent interview with OnLine Design, Barbara said, "HotWired, to me, is still a grand experiment. I think we're constantly learning and constantly reacting to what's new and what's possible."

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