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December 05, 2017
Ivan Chermayeff 1932-2017
A tribute to the brilliant designer Ivan Chermayeff.
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November 16, 2014
C&G for Howard Wise Gallery
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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October 24, 2014
Against the grain
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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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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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 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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April 14, 2014
The newest culinary celebrity
Chermayeff & Geismar for the State of Maine Cheese Company.
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April 12, 2014
They might be giants
Icons of culture and folklore are interpreted by the artists of Push Pin.
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April 07, 2014
Georgia’s always on my mind
Herb Lubalin was among the many designers and illustrators who contributed to the United States Information Agency’s 1962 graphic arts exhibition that toured the USSR.
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March 25, 2014
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out
The United States Information Agency deploys its secret weapon in the Cold War: designers and illustrators.
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March 03, 2014
That New York
Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar’s expressive typography for The Composing Room.
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February 22, 2014
Words and music
Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar’s playful experiments with type placement and scale for Concert Associates.
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February 16, 2014
Ciba graphics
Chermayeff & Geismar interpreted scientific data for Ciba Pharmaceuticals.
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November 24, 2013
Love and joy about letters
Love and Joy About Letters is a testament to Ben Shahn’s love affair with letters: the beauty of the letter forms, the liberating influence hand-lettering, and how the incorporation of letters added meaning to his art.
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October 25, 2013
What am I doing here?
I was initially drawn to this book because it reminded me of the Chas Addams and Ed Arno collections from my dad’s bookshelf. There are stylistic similarities to the classic New Yorker cartoons, but Abner Dean’s work dispenses with their gloss to espouse a much bleaker reality.
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September 16, 2013
Chermayeff and Geismar’s System 1
Is it a top secret missile defense system? A world-wide clandestine computer network designed to topple rogue governments? The futuristic and vaguely ominous-sounding System 1 was actually an office furniture system from Dictaphone’s furniture division Marble/Imperial.
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August 20, 2013
High-caliber promotions
Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar designed this elaborate promo system for a Knoll modular filing system. Some details from the project follow.
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August 12, 2013
Desk set
Chermayeff & Geismar’s promotional work for General Fireproofing’s steel office furniture neatly represents how they adapted their dominant styles to suit the needs of their corporate clients.
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May 25, 2013
Pepsi Generation
The design firm of Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar established their reputation for brilliant corporate identity work with one of their earliest clients, Pepsi-Cola.
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May 21, 2013
The new graphic art, 1959
Another recent addition from Ivan Chermayeff: the beautiful slipcased hardcover for The new graphic art, a trilingual history of the basis for the Swiss design style, compiled by Karl Gerstner and Markus Kutter in 1959.
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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