Cassandre sliced a path for designers, with his innovative combinations of modern techniques and his view of the environment being part of the design. Cassandre was an artist who delved into a little bit of everything: advertising through poster design, typefaces, stage and costume design, and even logo design. He set an example for designers…
The project is the cover art for the book Bauhaus, a book which Muriel Cooper did the entirety of the design work, not just the cover art. This book was published in 1967, the year of the 50thanniversary of the German art school by the same name, and is actually a redesigned and reedited English…
One of the most popular types of work Ethel Reed created in her short graphic design illustration career was covers and posters for books. This 1895 cover for the book ‘Is Polite Society Polite / and Other Essays By Mrs. Julia Ward Howe’ probably really stood out on the shelf among other books with its…
This graphic, the MITP logo, was created for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press by Muriel Cooper in 1962. During this time Cooper was still working at her independent graphic studio in Brookline, Massachusetts, before she would be hired as the MITP’s Design Director, meaning that MITP was a client that Cooper was working with…
Ms. magazine was founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. Following an extremely successful first year of publication, Ms. Magazine spread its first holiday issue in December 1972. The Australian Women’s history Network writes, “In seeking to maintain its secular feminist perspective while cultivating a religiously respectful tone, the December 1972 cover by Brazilian designer Bea…
Gotham is a typeface that Frere-Jones designed while he was still at Hoefler & Frere-Jones—it was actually the first typeface that he designed specifically and exclusively for the foundry, which made it the first thing he did in New York after having worked in Boston at the Type Bureau. As a result, today being many…
This cover for a 1895 issue of the Boston Sunday Herald was part of the work that brought graphic designer Ethel Reed into the spotlight in the latter half of the 1890s. She had already gained a reputation for her Art Nouveau style illustration work by the age of 18, but creating covers and posters…
Surveyor is a typeface designed by Frere-Jones while he was still at Hoefler & Frere-Jones specifically for Martha Stewart’s magazine, Martha Stewart Living, in 2000. It is a serif typeface, heavily inspired by the engraved maps of the early 1800s in the midst of exploration, which is why it is named Surveyor. The typeface itself…
This work from Bea Feitler stuck out to me while researching her. In 1963, when her former Parsons professor Marvin Israel left Bazaar magazine, Feitler was promoted from art assistant to co-art director alongside Ruth Ansel. Bruno Feitler, the nephew of Bea Feitler, said in regard to his aunt and Ansel’s collaboration “that one was…
Stefan Sagmiester is known for his use of typography and its juxtaposition into his clean designs. This project is no different. This project, titled How Happy Are You?, is an installation piece set to analyze how our society does not properly assess happiness at a psychological level or in the manner to which doctors approach…
From June to December 1989, Gran Fury installed their “Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do” series on the sides of buses in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The series showed three couples – a straight couple, a gay couple, and a lesbian couple – of different races kissing. It was…
Tobias Frere-Jones is a type designer from New York City. He still lives and works there, at a type foundry in Brooklyn called Frere-Jones Type. He was born on August 28, 1970, in Brooklyn to Elizabeth Frere and Robin Jones. His mother, Elizabeth Frere, was an English native hailing from Kent, a county right outside…
Stefan Sagmiester had an event happening at the American Institute for Graphic Arts or (AIGA) and it required a poster for advertisement. As opposed to the regular convention of creating a digital poster or a handwritten flyer, Sagmiester took to his body. Using his FART style, he took an exacto knife and carved all of…
In 1990, Gran Fury was invited to exhibit in the “Aperto” section of the Venice Biennale. They used this platform to criticize the position of the Catholic Church towards the AIDS crisis in a work entitled “The Pope and the Penis.” The work is made up of two huge posters hung next to each other. …
One may not recognize the name Bea Feitler, but they most likely will be familiar with her work. The cover of Rolling Stones with John Lennon posing naked with Yoko Ono, the feminist magazine Ms. that was cofounded with female icon Gloria Steinem, and the covers of popular magazines Harpers Bazaar and Vanity Fair. From…