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SVA’s early subway posters helped raise the school to a new plane of artistic and intellectual pursuits.

SVA’s early subway posters helped raise the school to a new plane of artistic and intellectual pursuits.
Milton Glaser got minimal for SVA’s 40th Anniversary logo.
A preview of James McMullan’s upcoming Masters Series show at the Visual Arts Gallery.
A tribute to the designer whose neon imagery and super sized environmental design changed the landscape of American design.
Some type-based design from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
We’ve just received materials from the 2005 exhibition The Design of Dissent donated by designer Mirko Ilić, who, along with Milton Glaser, collected the materials and created a book on the project.
James McMullan’s illustrations for Dutton’s paperback box set of The Alexandria Quartet, an ambitious mid-century novel tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell.
Shades of Yellow Submarine in Gian Carlo Menotti’s sci-fi opera for children Help, Help, The Globolinks!
In honor of summer wedding season we bring you Tony Palladino’s poster for “The Wedding Party.”
The Glaser Archives is launching our Design Study Collection, which will highlight sample collections from some of the most important designers and illustrators working today. The first collection we’re featuring is from designer and provocateur extraordinaire and SVA MFA Design faculty member, Stefan Sagmeister.
We are thrilled to add the work of Paul Sahre to our Design Study Collection.
Seymour Chwast’s intricate composition of his illustrations.
Chwast’s can for Diet Pepsi for the Christmas season integrated their 1986-1991 logo into Santa’s spectacles. As you can see in this photo, the rims of the glasses were left unpainted shiny aluminum to highlight the logo—the background behind Santa was also a checkerboard of white and silver. (Click through for full frame.)
Masterpiece Theatre was the principal portal into British television for American audiences in the seventies; Mobil, the sponsor, drafted their longtime designers Chermayeff & Geismar to make posters for various features.
Pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver was a major figure at SVA beginning in 1950s.
Tony Palladino created this indelible image for an SVA poster in 1989.
In the 1970s and 1980s Heinz Edelmann designed many posters for the West German public broadcasting station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).