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July 10, 2014
Lost New York
New York City signage that never was.
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July 09, 2014
Master strokes
Seymour Chwast’s intricate composition of his illustrations.
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July 02, 2014
C&G for Masterpiece Theatre
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.
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July 02, 2014
Seymour Chwast for Pepsi
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.)
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June 28, 2014
Robert Weaver at SVA
Pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver was a major figure at SVA beginning in 1950s.
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June 26, 2014
Sunday hats
Tony Palladino created this indelible image for an SVA poster in 1989.
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June 23, 2014
In the balance
In the 1970s and 1980s Heinz Edelmann designed many posters for the West German public broadcasting station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).
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June 19, 2014
Seymour Chwast for Topps
Seymour Chwast takes on Bazooka Joe.
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June 15, 2014
Go West
James McMullan did stunning work for the short-lived West magazine.
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June 08, 2014
Don’t it drag on
Milton Glaser teamed with celebrated photographer Duane Michals in 1972 to create this metaphysical album cover for bluesy folkie Chris Smither.
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June 06, 2014
Crowd control
Tony Palladino, along with Chermayeff & Geismar, was enlisted by Mobil to design the poster for Cotton Bowl advertisements in the late-80s and 90s. We don’t actually have this poster in our collection, though we have two others (which will follow shortly); only this slide of it. The others also make use of the visual appearance of a crowd as a way to play with perception of figure and ground. This slide didn’t go through properly the first time so I don’t have a good image of it, but if you click through I’ve included a smaller picture for reference.
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June 05, 2014
Chwast’s irrational fears
Seymour Chwast’s series of irrational fears for Strathmore Paper.
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June 03, 2014
On the same wavelength
The BFA Fine Arts department has long shown film or video art in the SVA Amphitheatre. These rough posters, spanning three decades, announce screenings of milestone works.
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June 01, 2014
Six ways of looking at a piano
Ivan Chermayeff uses collage and collections to create texture and dimensionality, continually exploring modernist ideas about bringing process to the forefront.
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May 31, 2014
The Elementary Doctor Watson
Milton Glaser created this album cover in 1972 for legendary guitarist and folk singer Doc Watson.
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May 27, 2014
Dirty talks
Panel discussions and talks sponsored by the Fine Arts Department in the heady conceptual late-70s and early-80s often adopted a DIY or punk aesthetic in their announcements.
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May 23, 2014
Don’t make ’em like this anymore
I especially like identity systems when they are applied to things that might seem outside of the purview of corporate promotions. So with this SVA check designed by George Tscherny, circa 1956.
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May 17, 2014
First Look: Gail Anderson
Next on deck in our Design and Illustration Study Collection is the work of designer and art director Gail Anderson.
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May 16, 2014
Tony Palladino, 1930-2014
A tribute to the singular artist and designer.
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May 10, 2014
The many trademarks of Chermayeff and Geismar
Chermayeff and Geismar published a spiral-bound portfolio of their trademarks in 1979, a precursor to the 2000 volume TM, published by Princeton Architectural Press.
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By Collection
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SVA Historical Event Recordings
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Gail Anderson Collection
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SVA COVID Collection
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Ed Benguiat Collection
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SVA Publications and Institutional Records
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Ivan Chermayeff Collection
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Ralph Caplan Collection
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Chermayeff & Geismar Collection
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Seymour Chwast Collection
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Stephen Doyle Collection
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Heinz Edelmann Collection
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Richard Wilde Papers
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Roger Ferriter Collection
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Louise Fili Collection
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Cris Gianakos Collection
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Milton Glaser Collection
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Keith Godard Collection
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Steven Heller Collection
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David Mazzucchelli Collection
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Ed McCabe Collection
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James McMullan Collection
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Tony Palladino Collection
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Stefan Sagmeister Collection
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Paul Sahre Collection
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Deborah Sussman Collection
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George Tscherny Collection
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Fred Troller Collection
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Henry Wolf Collection