Transparent things
James McMullan illustrated Nabokov’s Transparent Things for Esquire in 1971.
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Inaugural address
A pair of posters announcing the School of Visual Arts’ new location at 209 E 23rd Street.
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First Look: Fred Troller
New stuff in our collection by Swiss-born designer Fred Troller.
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Lucky number 13
A series of talks at SVA in 1971 and 1972 featured a pretty spectacular line-up: Carl Andre, Larry Bell, Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, Allan Kaprow, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol. The poster art, by John Sposato, reads as minimalism sent through the Push Pin filter (even though Sposato, who still teaches at SVA today, was, to my knowledge, never employed by the studio), right down to the slowly unfolding plays on depth and perspective.
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Push Pin and the P-Head
From the Push Pin Slide Collection: what appears to be a study for an alphabet based on the 1971 PBS identity designed by Lubalin Studio.
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The first Nöel
Getting into the holiday spirit, we bring you Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar’s charming wink at process.
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Once over lightly
Some thoughts on designers and children’s books on the occasion of a scan of original art from Tony Palladino’s unpublished The Crocodile With A Glass Stomach.
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Something Soft
Another foray by Milton Glaser into the realm of expressive typography.
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Odd bird
Milton Glaser Collection. Drawer 21, Folder 11: poster for Poppy records, 1968.
Looks like a regular ocellated fellow, with one significant difference. Cross-reference for flowers sprouting from heads: Utopia Records, and this poster for Push Pin Graphic. (Typeface is Glaser Stencil, which appeared on other Poppy productions as well.)
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