GDA001. Graphic Design Archive

Collection of materials from graphic designer Lester Beall. The collection includes client correspondence, client publications, portfolios, and writings on and by Beall. Awards, speeches, exhibitions, business records are also included in the collection.

Collection of materials from graphic designer Tom Carnase. Includes correspondence, photographs, slides, tear sheets, printed ephemera, drawings, and other graphic materials covering the professional life and work of the lettering artist, type and logo designer, typographer, and art director Tom Carnase.

The Hans Barschel collection contains the personal writings, correspondence, photographs, client files, and select artworks of noted graphic designer Hans Barschel. Baschel was a faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1952 to 1976.

The Louis Danziger Collection at RIT consists of representative examples of his commericial works from 1949 -1989, including proofs, tear-sheets, posters, exhibition catalogs and various other printed materials. A limited number of bibliographic and biographical documents are also included in the collection.

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.

Collection of materials from graphic designer George Giusti. Includes extensive client project files and documentation (sketches, mechanicals, printed samples, photographs, and artwork in relief and 3-dimensional form).

Collection of materials from graphic designer Paul Rand. It includes extensive client publications: advertisements, posters, letterhead, brochures, and reports from clients such as International Business Machines and Westinghouse.

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

The Ladislav Sutnar collection is comprised of correspondence, biographical files, bibliographic files and client files as well as gifts from Elaine Lustig Cohen, and the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

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.