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February 16, 2016
Delpire
Robert Delpire and Push Pin Studio’s mutual admiration resulted in exhibitions in both New York and Paris.
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January 27, 2016
Cyrk ice cream by Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast’s characteristic contour line and flat pastel coloration appears on the packaging of this short-lived late-80s Kosher ice cream, for which his Push Pin Studios also contributed the logo.
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August 28, 2015
Milton Glaser for Creative Newspaper, 1982
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June 09, 2015
Western Union’s ‘Computer Letter’
Ed McCabe’s characteristically direct copy for Western Union’s spammy-sounding “Computer Letter,” 1983. Click through for more and the full page.
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June 08, 2015
Henry Wolf for Karastan carpets
An excellently memorable and surreal campaign photographed by Henry Wolf for Karastan carpets.
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May 21, 2015
Milton Glaser’s Boris Vian
Milton Glaser’s watercolors for a French edition of Boris Vian’s I Spit On Your Graves.
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March 30, 2015
Paula Scher’s identity for SVA
In 1988, the School of Visual Arts commissioned Paula Scher—a longtime faculty member but not yet a principal at Pentagram—to redesign its corporate identity.
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February 24, 2015
I’ve seen you on the beach and I’ve seen you on TV
Malcolm Garrett was the subject of “Ulterior Motifs: An Exhibition of Graphic Devices 1977-1993,” an exhibition held at SVA in 1993 that featured Garrett’s logotypes for clients in the music, publishing, and retail industries.
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January 06, 2015
Welcome back—and to 2015
Students will return to SVA next Monday but we’re back and the archives are reopened already. Here’s Seymour Chwast’s cover design for Time‘s promotional calendar for the academic year 1982–1983.
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December 11, 2014
Christmas mail bag
Steven Heller collected more than 250 Christmas cards from artists for a 1980s book project. Many of the cards are hand-drawn or painted, but even the reproductions are playful and highly personal.
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November 24, 2014
Pop pourri, part 2
Reader Don O’Hara sent us a few additional iterations of the Jem “Classic Series” we featured last week.
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November 19, 2014
Pop pourri
Milton Glaser was hired by Deluxe Communications Corporation/Jem to design a set of LP sleeves for oldies releases they called The Classic Series.
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August 29, 2014
Story arc
Milton Glaser got minimal for SVA’s 40th Anniversary logo.
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August 21, 2014
Deborah Sussman, 1931–2014
A tribute to the designer whose neon imagery and super sized environmental design changed the landscape of American design.
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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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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 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 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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School of Visual Arts Archive
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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