Documenting COVID-19 Within the SVA Community
The SVA Archives is collecting our community's artistic response to the historic COVID-19 pandemic. All students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to submit work.

The SVA Archives is collecting our community's artistic response to the historic COVID-19 pandemic. All students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to submit work.
George Tscherny provided detailed and beautiful instructions for installing an exhibition of his work.
We asked the panelists in our upcoming symposium, "Archives By Design," to each send us one hidden gem from their collections. We got some great stuff.
A video introduction to our collections.
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.