Apr 8, 2024
“Lucian Bernhard (1883-1972) was one of the great founders of modern graphic design. In a career spanning nearly five decades in Berlin and New York, Bernhard laid the foundation for a new language of form and communication. His brilliant posters, advertisements, book designs and typefaces created the very look of the...
Feb 28, 2023
Scott R Ferris, is
a researcher, writer and specialist in the art of Rockwell
Kent (1882-1971). He has conducted many lectures on Kent and has
served as curator for a lot of Kent exhibitions.
Here's a thumbnail of Kent culled from
what Zoë Samels has written on the U.S. National Gallery
website:
He attended the...
Oct 24, 2022
Allan Fleming (1929 – 1977) was a Canadian
graphic designer best known for having created the Canadian
National Railway logo, for designing the 1967 book Canada: A
Year of the Land and for "revolutionizing" the look of
scholarly publishing in North America in the 1970s with his work at
University of Toronto Press.
Oct 11, 2022
I first became aware of the graphic
edition of Timothy Snyder's book On
Tyranny during a visit to the National Socialist
Documentation Centre museum in Munich about a year ago (revel in
the backstory here).
I bought and read a copy of the original edition shortly
thereafter. It's a powerful book, full of important,...
Feb 28, 2022
Jerry Kelly is a book designer, calligrapher and type designer. Before starting his own design business in 1998 he was Vice President of The Stinehour Press. Prior to this he worked as a designer at A. Colish. Jerry's work has been honored frequently; for example, his book designs have been...