Career
She was later inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1975. Pineles was born June 23, 1908 in Vienna. She came to the United States at the age of 13 and studied from 1927 to 1931 at the Pratt Institute, and in 1930 at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
From 1931 to 1933 she was a designer at the Contemporary Industrial Design Studio.
In 1932 (to 1936) she became an assistant to M. F. Agha, the art director of Condé Nast Publications. She worked for Vogue in New York and London (1932-1938), Glamour in New York (1941-1945) and Overseas Woman in Paris (1945-1946).
In 1947, she became art director of Seventeen (1947-1950), Charm (1950-1959) and move in 1961 to become art director of Mademoiselle in New New York From 1961 to 1972 she worked as a graphic design consultant for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New New York
Pineles joined the faculty of Parsons School of Design in 1963 and was also its director of publication design.
Positions at the Cooper Union (in 1977), and at Harvard University in Cambridge (in 1978) followed. She was honoured with numerous awards. 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.