Some background (and forgotten drafts?) of Milton Glaser’s poster for Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
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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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In 1967, Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, and James McMullan produced psychedelic “travel” posters for an issue of The Push Pin Graphic.
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SVA’s early subway posters helped raise the school to a new plane of artistic and intellectual pursuits.
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In honor of summer wedding season we bring you Tony Palladino’s poster for “The Wedding Party.”
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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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Pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver was a major figure at SVA beginning in 1950s.
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Tony Palladino created this indelible image for an SVA poster in 1989.
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In the 1970s and 1980s Heinz Edelmann designed many posters for the West German public broadcasting station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).
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Tony Palladino, along with Chermayeff & Geismar, was enlisted by Mobil to design the poster for Cotton Bowl advertisements in the late-80s and 90s. We don’t actually have this poster in our collection, though we have two others (which will follow shortly); only this slide of it. The others also make use of the visual appearance of a crowd as a way to play with perception of figure and ground. This slide didn’t go through properly the first time so I don’t have a good image of it, but if you click through I’ve included a smaller picture for reference.
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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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Panel discussions and talks sponsored by the Fine Arts Department in the heady conceptual late-70s and early-80s often adopted a DIY or punk aesthetic in their announcements.
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Next on deck in our Design and Illustration Study Collection is the work of designer and art director Gail Anderson.
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George Tscherny developed his style working for Herman Miller in the mid-50s.
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In the 1970s, the Mead Library of Ideas held exhibitions showcasing the best contemporary graphic design; they commissioned announcement posters from designers including Tony Palladino, Chermayeff & Geismar, and Seymour Chwast.
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While we’re on the subject of the Memphis Group, better take cover; that table’s gonna blow.
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We’re continuing to receive great stuff from George Tscherny, and here’s the latest.
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We looked at some of Edelmann’s political posters for the West German radio station WDR back in June. But there was also a lighter side to his collaboration with the broadcaster.
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While preparing for a class visit a couple of weeks ago, I rediscovered these gorgeous posters Heinz Edelmann did for Theater der Welt (Theater of the World) in 1981.
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This detail for a 1956 poster for the Cartoonist & Illustrators School by George Tscherny. Rebranded as the School of Visual Arts later that year, the designer had a long and fruitful relationship with the institution.
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SVA Historical Event Recordings
Gail Anderson Collection
SVA COVID Collection
Ed Benguiat Collection
SVA Publications and Institutional Records
Ivan Chermayeff Collection
Chermayeff & Geismar Collection
Seymour Chwast Collection
Stephen Doyle Collection
Heinz Edelmann Collection
Roger Ferriter Collection
Louise Fili Collection
Cris Gianakos Collection
Milton Glaser Collection
Keith Godard Collection
Steven Heller Collection
David Mazzucchelli Collection
Ed McCabe Collection
James McMullan Collection
Tony Palladino Collection
Stefan Sagmeister Collection
Paul Sahre Collection
Deborah Sussman Collection
George Tscherny Collection
Fred Troller Collection
Henry Wolf Collection