Glaser Design Archives

Designer Gail Anderson spent fifteen years at Rolling Stone, where she ultimately became Senior Art Director. She defined the magazine’s visual style through conceptual typography, employing traditional and non-traditional materials to form letter...

Marshall Arisman (1938-2022) was a painter, sculptor, and illustrator who began working at SVA in 1964, becoming the chair of the Design-Illustration department in 1969, co-chair of the BFA Media Arts program in 1971, and founder and chair of the ...

Ephram Edward Benguiat (October 27, 1927–October 15, 2020) was a typographer and lettering artist. Most of his typefaces are published by International Typeface Corporation; some of his more notable typefaces include Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, an...

Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar initially formed their partnership in the late 1950s and went on to revolutionize the field of visual communication and build one of America’s most influential graphic design firms. Together they have created more t...

Born in London, Ivan Chermayeff (June 6, 1932–December 3, 2017) came to the US with his family when he was 8 years old. After graduating from Yale in 1955, Chermayeff worked briefly as an assistant for Alvin Lustig, then for Columbia Records desig...

Seymour Chwast has profoundly affected American graphic design and illustration, both through his stewardship of the seminal Push Pin Studios (which he founded in 1954 with Milton Glaser and Ed Sorel) and his consistent contributions in editorial ...

“The Design of Dissent,” an exhibition and book created by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilić, examined the vital graphic response to the constraints of government and suppressive political forces. The exhibition was held at SVA in 2005 and featured mor...

The Design Study Collection contains significant design materials that may be unrelated to SVA figures. Conversely, the DSC also includes works from designers in our collections that came to us from another source.

The Stephen Doyle Collection comprises mainly printed materials designed by Stephen Doyle or his associates at Drenttel Doyle Partners and later at Doyle Partners. These include posters for advertising, branding, editorial; notebooks and packets p...

Heinz Edelmann (1934–2009), who became famous in 1968 for the character design in the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, produced a body of work across the next four decades that was notable for its Expressionistic sensibility tempered by wi...

Graphic designer and illustrator Roger Ferriter (1932–2015) was born in Rhode Island. After a stint in the Marine Corp and some time in the baseball minor league, Ferriter attended RISD, graduating in 1955, getting a Master's from Yale in 1959. He...

Louise Fili founded her design studio, Louise Fili Ltd in 1989, specializing in brand development for food packaging and restaurants. Fili was a senior designer for Herb Lubalin from 1976-1978 and then became art director of Pantheon Books from 19...

The Cris Gianakos Collection consists of posters, exhibition catalogs and postcards, brochures, letterhead, and book jackets related to his work as a designer and as an artist. Gianakos was born in New York City in 1934. He studied design at the S...

Bob Gill (1931-2021) was a renowned designer, teacher, and author. He began his career in New York City and was one of the earliest design instructors at the School of Visual Arts. In 1960 he moved to London where he eventually formed Fletcher For...

Milton Glaser was among the most celebrated graphic designers in the world. He co-founded the revolutionary Push Pin Studios with Seymour Chwast and Ed Sorel in 1954, founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, established Milton Glaser, I...

Keith Godard (1938-2020) was a renowned designer of public art and exhibitions, and a pioneer of the teaching of graphic design history. He was the Principal of StudioWorks and a faculty member in SVA’s MFA Design department. The Godard Collection...

Steven Heller is one of the foremost authorities on design and illustration history. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 200 books on graphic design, illustration, and political art. He is a partner in and editor-at-large for Printmag....

Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927-2016) was a graphic design pioneer whose work seamlessly integrated modernism with European avant-garde influences and one of the leading female designers working in New York in the 1950s. She had a prolific and respected...

David Mazzucchelli is a comic book and graphic novel artist and writer known for both his work on Daredevil at Marvel and Batman: Year One at DC Comics. From 1991-1993 he published his independent anthology Rubber Blanket, setting the stage for hi...

Ed McCabe is considered one of the advertising industry’s most creative copywriters. He co-founded Scali, McCabe, Sloves advertising agency in 1967 and then McCabe & Company in 1991. He is responsible for some the world’s most successful and endur...

James McMullan is one of America’s most important illustrators. He is best known for his acclaimed theater posters for Lincoln Center, and has also designed and illustrated many book jackets, album covers, and magazine articles.

Tony Palladino (1930-2014) was the inventive and idiosyncratic designer of many posters, advertisements, book jackets, and magazines. He brought a modern aesthetic to his work, but his work was particularly distinguished by his consistent use of ...

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian-born designer based in New York. founded of his own firm, Sagmeister Inc. in 1993, after a brief stint at Tibor Kalman’s M&Co. He renamed the firm Sagmeister & Walsh when Jessica Walsh was made a partner in 2012. S...

Paul Sahre established his independent design practice in 1997. Sahre’s work ranges from book jacket designs for authors including Rick Moody, Ernest Hemingway, and Chuck Klosterman, illustrations in The New York Times and The Atlantic, and a long...

Fred Troller (1930-2002) was an influential designer who emigrated to the United States from Switzerland. He worked as design director for the Geigy Chemical Corporation in New York in the 1960s; in 1968 he opened his own studio, Troller Associate...

The work of George Tscherny (1924-2023) is characterized by its elegance, wit, and simplicity. Tscherny began his career in 1950 as a packaging designer for Donald Deskey; he joined George Nelson & Associates in 1953, where his ideas about creativ...

Henry Wolf (1925–2005) shaped American periodical design in the 1950s and 1960s as art director of Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and Show magazines. He joined the McCann Erickson advertising agency in 1965 and later teamed with Jane Trahey to form Tra...