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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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August 14, 2014
Purple passages
James McMullan’s illustrations for Dutton’s paperback box set of The Alexandria Quartet, an ambitious mid-century novel tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell.
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August 01, 2014
All together now
Shades of Yellow Submarine in Gian Carlo Menotti’s sci-fi opera for children Help, Help, The Globolinks!
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March 16, 2014
The Cook
Milton Glaser created this 1965 book jacket for The Cook, a satirical horror novel about a mysterious chef, Conrad Venn, who seduces and manipulates the wealthy Hill and Vail families with food.
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February 03, 2014
Text clean and tight, some tearing
Early in his career, Tony Palladino specialized in book jackets—his style was always restrained, and oscillated between primitive torn-paper graphics and highly simplified visual ideas.
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December 15, 2013
Seth Siegelaub’s Xerox book
Our latest discovery—strongly recalling the original binder from Mel Bochner’s “Working Drawings…”— is a copy of Seth Siegelaub’s seminal Xerox Book.
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November 03, 2013
Illustrator Jerome Martin
While going through the books myself, I was particularly taken with the three covers done by an illustrator I’d never heard of, Jerome Martin.
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October 29, 2013
Heinz Edelmann for Klett-Cotta
Heinz Edelmann worked extensively with the Klett-Cotta press over the course of his career: we’ve collected some of his best jackets.
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July 30, 2013
Allan Kaprow’s Words
Another lovely artifact appeared in the Archive unexpectedly last week: Allan Kaprow’s Words, from 1962.
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July 28, 2013
Presenting… The James McMullan Collection
We recently finished organizing and describing the James McMullan Collection, which was donated by the acclaimed illustrator and designer last year.
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July 12, 2013
Man in the shadows
He wanted to live in a world in which one could find “Gershwin playing all night in penthouses, while George Kaufman fired one-liners into the guests and Harpo scrambled eggs in their hats.” Milton Glaser’s cover, with its punchy color combined with austere but evocative line, seems neatly suited to such a world.
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June 07, 2013
Borges by McMullan
James McMullan’s watercolor book jackets capture the spirit of Borges.
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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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February 25, 2013
The surrealistic book covers of Heinz Edelmann
Heinz Edelmann’s book covers for Klett-Cotta.
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August 25, 2010
Color is for anything you want
This deceptively casual promotional piece typifies the whimsy and poignancy found in much of Tony Palladino’s work.
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August 19, 2010
Keep it like a secret
In 1961, Ivan Chermayeff designed and illustrated Sandol Stoddard Warburg’s Keep it like a secret (Chermayeff and Warburg had previously collaborated on The Thinking Book in 1960). The charming title, with its childlike connotations, was later appropriated by the band Built to Spill for their 1999 album. Sadly, we only have the jacket, not the book itself, but I did discover another version of the jacket out there.
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September 18, 2009
Another pitch from Palladino
About a decade before Tony devised his ‘guerilla marketing’ self-promotion campaign, the designer took a similarly witty but somewhat more traditional approach. Four versions of this card were printed, each in three colors on heavy stock, and sent to publishers without any additional pitch. Set simply with his address and isolating a single area of specialization, they relied on a single strong image to convey their point.
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March 27, 2009
Chasing skirt
Flying after apparently-unoccupied parachute-like skirts at full sprint is a kind of perversion I guess.
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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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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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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
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