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, Glamour, House & Garden, Vanity Fair and Vogue.

Pineles was born June 23, 1908, in Vienna, the fourth of five children, spending her early childhood in Poland, and her father was often sick.

[1] She attended Bay Ridge High School in Brooklyn and won a Tiffany Foundation Scholarship to Pratt Institute[3] from 1927 to 1931.

In 1929, Pineles first position was teaching as an instructor in watercolor paintings at the Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial Art in New Jersey.

After her graduation and post Great Depression, Pineles also began work at Green Mansions, an adult resort/summer camp in the Adirondacks.

Her work at Green Mansions continued into the 1950s, where she designed the resort's annual brochure, stationery, and mailings for events and special holidays.

[5] She started her career at the age of 23 at Contempora after struggling to enter the work force due to sexism in the industry.

Agha, testing new ideas with photography and layout, allowed Pineles great independence, therefore she designed a considerable number of projects on her own.

“You might say we tried to convey the attractiveness of reality, as opposed to the glitter of a never-never land.”[10] Her work contributed to the effort to redefine the style of women’s magazines.

[12] Positions as Andrew Mellon Professor at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (in 1977) and on the visiting committee for Harvard Graduate School of Design (in 1978) followed.

[10] As a personal project, Pineles wrote and illustrated a sketchbook of Eastern European Jewish recipes, completing a manuscript in 1945.

[citation needed] The manuscript was bought by a collector at an estate sale and was eventually found by illustrator Wendy MacNaughton at an antiquarian book fair in San Francisco.