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Abstract


Keith Godard (1938-2020) was a renowned designer of public art and exhibitions, and a pioneer of the teaching of graphic design history. He was the Principal of StudioWorks and a faculty member in SVA’s MFA Design department. The Godard Collection represents his exuberantly textural and conceptual approach to design.


 

Date

 

1963 – 2016 (Date ranges)


 

General Physical Description

 

Two manuscript cases, two flat boxes, one small object box, and one flat file drawer.


 

Scope and Contents

 

The Collection includes posters, book jackets, books, miscellaneous print items, and a three-dimensional model for Godard's New York City Transit Museum exhibition.


 

Restrictions

 

This collection is open for research.


 

Citation

 

Keith Godard Collection, [series. item]. Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, Visual Arts Foundation, New York.


 

Acquisition Information

 

The Keith Godard Collection was acquired as a gift from Keith Godard.

Container List

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 1. Posters (MG.27.S01)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
D81 F10
Advertising Women of New York. "1989 New York Addy Awards"
1989
D81 F8
American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Planners, American Society of Landscape Architects, Art Directors Club of Los Angeles. "A Picnic in Los Angeles"
1972
D81 F8
California Institue of the Arts. "1st Year is represented by its faculty and students"
1971
D81 F12
California Institute of the Arts. School of Design. "Tooling Tomorrow" poster
n.d.
D81 F8
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. "Urban Focus: A Festival of Films and Video Tapes"
1975
D81 F8
"Commemoration Meeting for the 20th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Six Million Jewish Martyrs of Nazism"
1964
D81 F11
Cooper Hewitt. "Immovable Objects: An Outdoor Exhibition About City Design" poster
June 18 – August 8 1975
D81 F8
"Evolution of the Poster 1850 to the Present: An Inspirational Talk With Examples by Keith Godard"
1997
D81 F8
"Experience New Levels in Parking From the Earth Core to the Universe in Charlotte North Carolina"
1998
D81 F14
Eye magazine. "Moon Calendar" (for the third issue of Eye in an edition of 750) poster
1969
D81 F9
"The International Vintage Poster Fair"
1994
D81 F9
Lake Placid Film Festival. "5th Annual Lake Placid Film Festival"
2004
D81 F9
Municipal Art Society, Philip Morris Inc., National Endowment for the Humanities. "Grand Central Terminal: City Within the City"
1982
D81 F9
Museum of Primitive Art. "Precolumbian Art in New York"
1969
D81 F10
New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. "A Conference Celebrating the International Year of the Child"
1979
D81 F10
New School University, Parsons School of Design; Goethe Institute. Nach Berlin Kapital Architectures
1998
D81 F10
"The Next Time Nobody Will Be Around to Sign the Peace Treaty"
1985
D81 F9
"Philadelphia College of Art: Summer Sessions" (signed)
1975
D81 F10
Plan de ville. Perigaux, Capitale du Perigord
2016
D81 F10
Punchout assembly instructions for Lounge Chair
1974
D81 F10
Punchout assembly instructions for Ottoman and Low Table
1974
D81 F9
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. "Broken Glass Can Cripple. Tidy Up!"
1963
D81 F15
Staten Island Children’s Museum. "Hocus Focus"
1979
B1 F2
United Nations. World Population Year and "New Internationalist"
1974
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Aesthetics: Lectures Spring 2002"
2002
B3 F5
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Architecture and Landscape Architecture"
n.d.
B3 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Architecture Plus Lectures and Symposia Fall 2005"
2005
B3 F2
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Buildings and Grounds in Transition: Lectures Fall 2001"
2001
B3 F4
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Constructure: Lectures Spring 2007"
2007
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Conversations: Lectures and Exhibitions Fall 2002"
2002
B3 F6
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Listening: Lectures and Symposia Spring 2006"
2006
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "More Conversations: Lectures and Exhibitions Spring 2003"
2003
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Slices of Work: Lectures and Symposia Fall 2004"
2004
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "The Defining Eye of Ethics: Spring Lectures 2000"
2000
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. "Verdant Light: Fall Lectures 2000"
2000
B3 F3
University of Virginia School of Architecture. Cite Site Sight: Lectures and Symposia Fall 2003-Spring 2004
2003
B1 F1
University of Virginia School of Architecture. Currents: Spring Lectures 2001
2001
D81 F13
USA print series. Electrostatics (series of 7)
1967 – 1970
D81 F10
Yale University, Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Yale Film Festival" poster
1968
D81 F16
Yale University. "Perspecta 11" (Yale Architectural Journal) (blue) poster
1966
D81 F16
Yale University. "Perspecta 11" (Yale Architectural Journal) (red) poster
1966

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 2. Printed Materials (MG.27.S02)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B1 F20
"The Best of British Graphics '83" exhibition brochure
1983
B1 F3
"Brooklyn on Tour" map and guide
1984
B3 F7
Business Week. Cover, (Japanese martial arts watch)
n.d.
B1 F5
BusinessWeek. Cover, "The New Oil Game: Diversification"
April 24 1978
B1 F6
F7
F8
California Institute of the Arts Bulletin, 1971-1972 (with printed plastic enclosure)
1971
B3 F9
Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design. "Immovable Objects" exhibition sticker
1975
B3 F8
Cooper Hewitt. "Immovable Objects: An Outdoor Exhibition About City Design, June 18-August 8 1975" (catalog/newspaper)
1975
B1 F14
Cooper Union School of Art/Herb Lubalin Study Center. "Keith Godard: This Way That Way" exhibition postcard
2005
B1 F9
Creative Playthings. Stickers with logo
n.d.
B1 F11
Educational Facilities Laboratories. "Four Fabric Structures" report
1975
B1 F10
Empire State Building. "Souvenir Guide to the Views"
2007
B1 F5
Fortune magazine. Cover, "Telephonizing the Third World"
August 1977
B1 F5
Fortune magazine. Cover, "The Fortune Five Hundred" (August, 1976)
1976
B1 F5
Graphis. Cover (pills), vol. 25, no. 142
1969
B3 F10
International Design Conference in Aspen, June 20-2, 1971 participatory newspaper
1971
B1 F12
International Design Conference in Aspen. "Paradox" brochure (IDs)
1971
B1 F13
Keith Godard StudioWorks brochure
n.d.
B1 F15
Lake Placid Film Festival. 5th Annual program
2004
B1 F16
Mauricio Klabin exhibition invitation
2002
B5
Museum of Modern Art. "New York: Sniffs, Snuffles, Snorts & Whiffs"
1975
B1 F17
Museum of Primitive Art. "Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections" catalog
1969
B1 F22
Parsons School of Design. Department of Architecture. "City Spaces" booklet
2000
B3 F11
Poster Society. "Journal of the Poster Society," Spring, 1987
1987
B4 F3
Poster Society. "Journal of the Poster Society," Spring, 1988
1988
B4 F1
Poster Society. "Journal of the Poster Society," Summer, 1987
1987
B4 F2
Poster Society. "Journal of the Poster Society," Winter, 1987-1988
1987
B1 F18
Punchout brochure in envelope, letterhead, envelope
1974
B1 F4
Staten Island Children's Museum. "Building Buildings"
1985
B1 F19
StudioWorks postcards of miscellaneous projects
1995 – 2007
B1 F22
University of Virginia. School of Architecture Graduate and Graduate Programs catalog, 2001-2003
2001
B1 F22
University of Virginia. School of Architecture. "Urgent Matters, vol. 1, Trojan Goat: A Self-Sufficient House"
2005
B1 F21
Wedding invitation for Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg
1986
B1 F23
Yale Film Festival entry form
1968
B1 F24
Young at Heart Cards
1981

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 3. Books (MG.27.S03)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B2 F5
"Anderson and Archer's SoHo: The Essential Guide to Art and Life in Lower Manhattan"
1979
B2 F6
"Book Mates" (Works Editions)
2016
B2 F5
Educational Facilities Laboratories. "Learning About the Built Environment"
1974
B1 F25
"Glue Glue" (Works Editions)
1973
B2 F1
"Holdup" (Works Editions)
1980
B2 F1
"Itself" (Works Editions)
1970
B2 F2-4
J. Paul Getty Museum. "Make Your Own Museum"
1994
B2 F1
"A Little Night Book (that glows in the dark...)" (Works Editions)
1983
B2 F6
"Sounds: Noisy Paper Book" (Works Editions)
1972 – 1992
B2 F6
"Spacescape: A Story of Dimension" (with stereoscopic viewer) (Works Editions)
2008

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 4. Book Jackets (MG.27.S04)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B2 F12
Doubleday. "Edmond Halley: Genius in Eclipse" by Colin A. Ronan
1969
B2 F12
Doubleday. "Stories from the Sixties" edited with a preface by Stanley Elkin
1971
B2 F12
Doubleday. "The Adolescent" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew
1971
B2 F10
Doubleday/Anchor. "A Different Drummer" by William Melvin Kelley
1969
B2 F8
Doubleday/Anchor. "Brecht: The Man and His Work" by Martin Esslin
1971
B2 F9
Doubleday/Anchor. "Cold War Essays" by Gar Alperovitz
1970
B2 F11
Doubleday/Anchor. "Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man" by Thomas S. Szasz
1970
B2 F12
Doubleday/Anchor. "Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization" edited by Shlomo Avineri
1969
B2 F12
Doubleday/Anchor. "Mao Tse-Tung on Revolution and War" edited by M. Rejai
1970
B2 F7
Macmillan. "Birthrights: A Bill of Rights for Children" by Richard Farson
1974
B2 F12
Macmillan. "The Divine Pastime" by Harold Clurman
1974

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 5. Photographic Materials (MG.27.S05)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B4 F4
Images of Live from Lincoln Center banners
n.d.
B5
Negatives for Electrostatic prints
n.d.
B2 F13
Transparencies of miscellaneous projects
n.d.
B4 F5
Yale University. Photograph of art for Perspecta, 11 (pushpin globe)
1966

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 6. 3-D Objects (MG.27.S06)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
Exhibition models designed for the New York Transit Museum exhibition "Steel, Stone and Backbone" (two 1/8" acrylic vitrines)
1997

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives  >  Keith Godard Collection  >  Series 7. About Keith Godard (MG.27.S07)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B2 F14
Article on Plans des Villes in "The Connexion," September 2016
2016
B4 F6
Metropolis January/February, 1984. "A Very Graphic Business: Graphic Artists Take on the Third Dimension”
1984

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