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August 28, 2013
Atomic-age publication design
Comment was a promotional periodical produced by consortium of printers in the early sixties. Issue 200 included contributions from Saul Bass, Will Burtin, and Henry Wolf.
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April 28, 2013
Alan Fletcher’s “Feedback”
Among the ephemera in the Henry Wolf Collection are five early editions of Pentagram’s Feedback — guidebooks for globetrotting designers. Excerpts from David Hockney, Olivier Morgue and Bob Gill follow.
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March 23, 2013
Jack Roberts birth announcement, 1950
A birth announcement illustrated by Jack Roberts (for his daughter), archived in Henry Wolf’s correspondence.
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January 15, 2013
Vignelli charts design changes: 60s–80s
It surprises no one that the side of 60s design that Vignelli decides to focus on is the modularity and rigid systematization that he specialized in.
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January 15, 2013
Erasermate: Put it down and take it back
Wolf shot the photograph for this ca. 1980s Papermate ad, which was originally a full magazine spread.
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June 11, 2009
Lincoln Center book cover
Lincoln Center’s groundbreaking ceremony took place in on May 14, 1959, so this book cover designed by Chermayeff & Geismar must have been created some time in the early 1960s. According to the text, Lincoln Center would make New York City “… the international capital of the performing arts, just as the United Nations makes it a capital for world affairs.”
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