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December 01, 2013
Identity Programs by Noel Martin
Noel Martin was a renown self-taught typographer and designer who studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He later became an instructor there and was the long-time designer for the Cincinnati Art Museum, as well as a prolific free-lance designer. Martin was celebrated for modernizing museum graphics and industrial trade catalogs. In 1953, he was featured in MoMA’s landmark design exhibition, Four American Designers, along with Herbert Bayer, Leo Lionni, and Ben Shahn. His spiral-bound self-promotional piece, Identity Programs, presents some of his iconic minimalist logos.
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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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July 28, 2009
Toys of the 1940s
(Esquire casually omits Ray Eames’ credit on the DCM.)
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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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Bob Gill 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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Fred Troller Collection
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George Tscherny Collection
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Henry Wolf Collection
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