Reynold Ruffins is a founding member of the lengendary Push Pin Studios, along with Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, and Ed Sorel.
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Milton Glaser's early book covers, done not long after he founded Push Pin Studios with Seymour Chwast, served as a kind of laboratory for the techniques and styles he was exploring in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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More packaging designs from the Pushpin Studios/Seymour Chwast slide collection.
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One regular advertiser in the Push Pin Graphic was Metropolitan Printing.
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Some type-based design from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
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Seymour Chwast’s intricate composition of his illustrations.
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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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Icons of culture and folklore are interpreted by the artists of Push Pin.
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Before Push Pin Studios, before the Push Pin Graphic, there was the Push Pin Almanack.
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In the early 1970s, Push Pin Studios produced a line of candies under the name “Pushpinoff Sweets.”
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In 1969, the Mead Library of Ideas presented an exhibition of the work of Push Pin Studios, sharing the design and illustration of its many current and former members.
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Milton Glaser tips his hat to French poet, playwright, and critic Guillaume Apollinaire.
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We recently received a wonderful donation from James McMullan, and while I was looking for a few things to feature in a sneak peek, I came across this illustration he did for Push Pin of Long Island as a potato.
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The most recent addition to the Chermayeff & Geismar Collection is twelve boxes of old and rare art books, ranging from annuals to architecture; Switzerland to Japan. As always, there were plenty of surprises: one was the catalog for an AGI exhibition from 1976, which featured, alongside reproductions of their work, dramatic photos of the designers.
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Push Pin’s nutty and sweet Christmas Gift Catalog for Esquire exemplifies the eclectic spirit of that studio.
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We recently received a wonderful donation from illustrator and designer Seymour Chwast. He was a founding partner of Push Pin Studios in 1954, along with Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel and Reynold Ruffins. The studio’s name was changed to the Pushpin Group in 1985 and Chwast remains as its director. Here’s a sampling of the 80 posters we received; future posts will highlight original artwork and other printed materials that offer a comprehensive view of Chwast’s influential career.
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Some ephemeral points of comparison between the work of Seymour Chwast and Andy Warhol.
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In 1995, the Cooper Union celebrated the 40th anniversary of Pushpin Studios with an exhibition and special sale of drawings and paintings by the three founders, pictured above: Seymour Chwast, Edward Sorel, and Milton Glaser; along with works by John Alcorn, Sam Antupit, Michael Aron, Vincent Ceci, Paul Davis, George Leavitt, Tim Lewis, Jim McMullan, Reynold Ruffins, Jerold Smokler, Richard Mantel, “and others.” This reminded me of another similar device that captured a group that is also heavily represented by the Archive.
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Vernacular signage from the first year of the Push Pin Graphic.
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Gail Anderson Collection
SVA COVID Collection
Ed Benguiat Collection
SVA Publications and Institutional Records
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
Fred Troller Collection
George Tscherny Collection
Henry Wolf Collection