Archives By Design: Preserving the Work of Designers
A unique evening symposium on archiving graphic design and illustration at the SVA Theatre on March 11th.

A unique evening symposium on archiving graphic design and illustration at the SVA Theatre on March 11th.
The logic-defying logos of an obscure but important designer.
We talked to Milton about his 1969 assignment to illustrate the cover of Time magazine.
Designer extraordinaire and one-man-band George Tscherny is 95.
Milton Glaser's early book covers, done not long after he founded Push Pin Studios with Seymour Chwast, served as a kind of laboratory for the techniques and styles he was exploring in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
New York City's avant-garde art scene was on full display at SVA's 1967 Fall Gallery Concert Series.
Sesame Street magazine of the 1970s put the stylized pop-psychedelic style of the TV program's animated sequences in kids' mailboxes.
Designers working in both the modernist style and the more eclectic and illustrative approach of Push Pin Studios have consistently found ways to employ patterns.
A tribute to the brilliant designer Ivan Chermayeff.
We just uncovered a batch of Seth Siegelaub’s original Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement from 1971.
We were so pleased to receive work from legendary typographer Ed Benguiat, including original lettering and print samples of his typefaces in action.
Next up in the Archives’ vitrine in the SVA Library is the work of Everett Aison, a filmmaker, screenwriter, designer, illustrator, author, and educator.
Images from the Herb Lubalin exhibition at The Composing Room in 1968.
A survey of SVA subway posters in Warsaw.
Work from artist and designer Cris Gianakos.
An incredible array of new material from James McMullan.
Some background (and forgotten drafts?) of Milton Glaser’s poster for Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
Robert Delpire and Push Pin Studio’s mutual admiration resulted in exhibitions in both New York and Paris.
Seymour Chwast’s characteristic contour line and flat pastel coloration appears on the packaging of this short-lived late-80s Kosher ice cream, for which his Push Pin Studios also contributed the logo.
The Cooper-Hewitt’s outdoor exhibition/walking tour of lower Manhattan was held during the summer of 1975.