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April 29, 2016
First Look: Cris Gianakos
Work from artist and designer Cris Gianakos.
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May 10, 2014
The many trademarks of Chermayeff and Geismar
Chermayeff and Geismar published a spiral-bound portfolio of their trademarks in 1979, a precursor to the 2000 volume TM, published by Princeton Architectural Press.
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April 14, 2014
The newest culinary celebrity
Chermayeff & Geismar for the State of Maine Cheese Company.
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October 21, 2013
Colorvision!
In what essentially looks like a lost issue of the Push Pin Graphic, Colorvision (“an entirely new concept of color in clothing!”) describes the magic of a Blendescent.
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September 16, 2013
Chermayeff and Geismar’s System 1
Is it a top secret missile defense system? A world-wide clandestine computer network designed to topple rogue governments? The futuristic and vaguely ominous-sounding System 1 was actually an office furniture system from Dictaphone’s furniture division Marble/Imperial.
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August 20, 2013
High-caliber promotions
Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar designed this elaborate promo system for a Knoll modular filing system. Some details from the project follow.
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January 07, 2013
Bob Gill
Designer and illustrator Bob Gill was one of the earliest faculty members at SVA, joining right around the time George Tscherny taught the school’s first design course.
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August 27, 2010
Brown bag
More Tony Palladino: a clever concept hiding in plain sight.
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June 04, 2010
Subscribe to Push Pin Graphic
The thing that fascinates me most about Push Pin Graphic is how unpredictable they manage to be all the time. Even apart from the contents of each issue, every promotion contains — no matter how generic the thing as a whole may be — some off-kilter element that has a defamiliarizing effect on the whole endeavor. The Cherie Currie-esque figure here has no other reference anywhere on the page, she’s just hanging out in the margin of the tearaway.
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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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