Chermayeff & Geismar designed a series of exhibition posters for the Howard Wise Gallery in the 1960s, highlighting the artists’ works. Wise exhibited abstract expressionists including Milton Resnick and Edward Dugmore, and later specialized in kinetic art and light sculputure.
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Forever potent and still open to interpretation despite its ubiquity, the skeleton has surfaced many times in the early work of Milton Glaser.
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Another chapter in our series of posts on George Tscherny’s work for Pan Am.
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In 1964, the Sanders Printing Corporation invited SVA’s graduating class to produce its periodic promotional publication, Folio.
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These exhibition catalogs and announcements for the Museum of Contemporary Crafts were created just a year after the museum’s founding in 1956.
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Really a sister project of Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder’s Underground Gourmet column for New York magazine, Glaser’s “Chinese Grocery” poster sought to guide the uninitiated through a Chinatown market, in this case the no longer extant United Supermarket at 84 Mulberry Street.
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Henry Wolf took a variety of approaches to dramatizing the American political process in his magazine design.
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The tension between the accidental and the controlled is almost always present in the work of George Tscherny.
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The 1964 course announcement for Henry Wolf’s and Melvin Sokolsky’s photography course at SVA manages to be both instructive and artful, assembling outtakes of the instructors’ portraits in a way that elevates them.
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One regular advertiser in the Push Pin Graphic was Metropolitan Printing.
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In 1967, Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, and James McMullan produced psychedelic “travel” posters for an issue of The Push Pin Graphic.
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Deborah Hay and the graphics for her postmodern dance performances.
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Next up in our newly-hatched Design Study Collection: the supremely elegant Louise Fili.
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Milton Glaser’s architectural lighting and three-dimensional design for restaurants.
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SVA’s early subway posters helped raise the school to a new plane of artistic and intellectual pursuits.
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Milton Glaser got minimal for SVA’s 40th Anniversary logo.
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A preview of James McMullan’s upcoming Masters Series show at the Visual Arts Gallery.
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A tribute to the designer whose neon imagery and super sized environmental design changed the landscape of American design.
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Some type-based design from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
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