graphic design
The Modern Dutch Poster: The First Fifty Years, 1890 - 1940Seventy-five posters by 50 artists survey Dutch poster design from 1890 through 1940. Dutch posters were generally smaller than their French counterparts, designed to be hung inside a shop rather than displayed outdoors and read from a distance. Featured artists include Th. H.A.A. Molkenboer, Theodorus Nieuwenhuis, Willy Sluiter, and Piet van der Hem. Dutch, Holland, Netherlands, posters, graphic design, exhibitions |
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Annual ReportsAn exhibition of the history of annual reports, with an eye to graphic design and printing technology. More than 250 examples are on display, and range from the minutes of a mid 17th century British textile trading firm to contemporary annual reports replete with photography. Benjamin Franklin, Milton Glaser, and Robert Miles Runyan are among the featured printers, designers, and illustrators. annual reports, graphic design, corporate design, ephemera, printing, exhibitions |
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Choices: Recent AcquisitionsThese recent acquisitions demonstrate the importance of design in everyday life. Teapots and chairs are on display, along with a group of drawings for the Central Park Zoo, an early-19th-century French textile depicting the “Monuments of Paris,” and late-20th century posters by Japanese graphic designer Ikko Tanaka. stoneware, housewares, furniture, textiles, graphic design, recent acquisitions, permanent collection, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35349869 |
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Elaine Lustig Cohen, Modern Graphic DesignerElaine Lustig Cohen was one of the few high-profile female graphic designers of the 1950s and 1960s. She successfully integrated European modernism into American printed media, using geometric symbols and abstract structural elements from modern painting, architecture, and typography. Cohen did work for Meridian Books General Motors, the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of Art, and Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art. She also worked with architects, including Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, and Eero Saarinen, to design interiors, signage, and printed materials. Elaine Lustig Cohen, graphic design, modernism, 20th century, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35350061 |
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Design on the Street: Mixing Messages in Public SpaceA large collage of posters on the theme of "the street" complements the current exhibition, Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture, now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. graphic design, collage |
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Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary CultureThis exhibition presents recent trends in graphic design. Posters, signs, advertisements, zines, logos, typefaces, shopping bags, and corporate publications are among the works on display. Featured designers include Charles S. Anderson, Art Chantry, Stephen Doyle, Edward Fella, Tobias Frere-Jones, Dan Friedman, April Greiman, Jonathan Hoefler, Tibor Kalman, Katherine McCoy, and Paula Scher. graphic design, 20th century, exhibitions |
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The Avant-Garde LetterheadAn exhibition of modernist letterhead and ephemera from the collection of Elaine Lustig Cohen. The 170 examples on display represent art movements such as Italian Futurism, De Stijl, Dada, and the Bauhaus, and include works by Kurt Schwitters, Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitsky, Theo van Doesburg, F. T. Marinetti, and Le Corbusier. graphic design, letterhead, modernism, Bauhaus, futurism, Dada, De Stijl, Ellen Lupton, Elaine Lustig Cohen, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35349911 |
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Concerned Theatre Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theatre: 1960-1980Explore the modern Japanese theater movement as well as the development of Japan's postwar cultural identity through the design of theater posters. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the AIGA. Japan, theater, 20th century, theatrical design, costumes, graphic design, posters, traveling exhibitions |
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Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman CollectionThis exhibition focuses on the intersection of art and mass media in the first part of the 20th century. A selection of 200 works selected the private Merrill C. Berman collection explores themes such as the avant-garde's impact on design and the the designer's changing role in relation to commerce, communication, and politics. The exhibition features magazine covers, book jackets, advertisements, graphic ephemera, and other objects by Man Ray, A. M. Cassandre, Leo Marfurt, Alexander Rodchenko, Kurt Schwitters. Theo van Doesburg, Vladimir and Georgii Steinberg, and Lester Beall. graphic design, book cover design, ephemera, 20th century, exhibitions, Merrill C. Berman |
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The Opulent Eye of Alexander GirardThis exhibition explores the work of artist Alexander Girard (1907-1993), one of America's most innovative 20th century designers. Unique in postwar American design, Girard created textiles as well as graphics, interiors, and furnishings that introduced modern design to millions of Americans. Organized by Donald Albrecht, Curator of Special Projects. Alexander Girard, 20th century, American, textiles, graphic design, interiors, furniture design |
