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GDA001. Graphic Design Archive

 Record Group
Identifier: GDA001

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Alex Steinweiss papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0108
Overview

Collection of materials from graphic designer Alex Steinweiss. It includes extensive client publications: advertisements, and posters mainly from his work for Columbia Records.

Dates: 1940-2003

Alexey Brodovitch collection

 Collection — Box-folder 1-21
Identifier: CSC-0087
Overview

The collection contains correspondence, photographs and contact sheets for various clients, cassette tapes from classes Brodovitch taught, and exhibition materials from reowned art director Alexey Brodovitch.

Dates: 1898-1994

Alvin Lustig papers

 Collection — Box 1-8
Identifier: CSC-0014
Overview

The collection consists of examples and photographs of Lustig's design work, writings by and about him, and portrait photographs of him.

Dates: 1925-1984

Bob Cato papers

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0089
Overview

The Bob Cato papers document Cato’s role as a graphic designer, artist, and photographer. His work designing record album covers helped turn them into forms of contemporary art and won him two Grammys. He is also known for his creation of the “Charlie Girl” image for Revlon, and photographs of top recording artists of the 20th century.

Dates: 1900-2015; Majority of material found within 1962-1999

Bradbury Thompson collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0111
Overview

The collection consists of bibliographic files, writings, exhibition records, posters and client files of graphic designer Bradbury Thompson.

Dates: 1911 - 1995

Burton Kramer collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0079
Overview

Collection of materials from graphic designer Burton Kramer. Includes extensive client publications: advertisements, posters, letterhead, brochures, and reports, mainly from his firm Kramer Design Associates in Toronto, Canada.

Dates: circa 1957-2008, undated

Ceil Smith Thayer collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0112
Overview

The Ceil Thayer Smith collection consists of sketches, drawings, scrapbooks, and correspondence created by the New York based graphic designer. She worked primarily in women's fashion advertisement during the 1920s thru 1940s.

Dates: 1920-1980

Chermayeff and Geismar collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0090
Overview

The collection contains client project files and posters created by the design firm Chermayeff and Geismar, as well as writings by the two designers, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar.

Dates: 1956-2004

Cipe Pineles papers

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0104
Overview

Collection of materials on Cipe Pineles, a twentieth-century American graphic designer who worked predominately for women's magazines such as Seventeen, Charm, and Glamour.

Dates: 1908-1991

Ed Benguiat collection

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0076
Overview The Ed Benguiat Collection contains original sketches, phototypesetting materials such as photographic prints and negatives, and printed materials relating to the design, production, and promotion of typefaces generated or accumulated during the life and career of type designer, Ed Benguiat. The collection contains objects dating from 1953 to 2001. The collection is organized into two series: I. Graphic Work, and II. Typefaces. The first series contains printed and design work for logos and...
Dates: circa 1953-2001