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magazine, a high-end, subscription-only bimonthly arts and literature periodical, for whom Glaser and Chwast "used photographs, drawings, big pictures and lavish colors to accompany articles by Donald Barthelme, Herbert Gold, Martin Mayer, Thomas Whiteside and Frank Capra, among others." Founded in
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in New York City in 1954. The firm's work, and distinctive illustration style, featuring "bulgy" three-dimensional "interpretations of historical styles (Victorian, art nouveau, art deco),"made their mark by departing from what the firm refers to as the "numbing rigidity of modernism, and the rote
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In an era dominated by Swiss rationalism, the Push Pin style celebrated the eclectic and eccentric design of the passé past while it introduced a distinctly contemporary design vocabulary, with a wide range of work that included record sleeves, books, posters, corporate logotypes, font design and
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Sorel left Push Pin in 1956, the same day the studio moved into a much nicer space on East 57th Street. For twenty years Glaser and Chwast directed Push Pin, along with graphic designers and illustrators such as
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1971, under Glaser and Chwast's direction, it won the top award of the Society of Publication Designers in 1972. In 1973, however, it folded due to lack of funding.
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magazine, both being fired on the same day. Joining forces to form an art studio, they called it "Push Pin" after a mailing piece,
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The Push Pin Style: An Exhibition of Design and Illustration by Present and Former Members of the Push Pin Studios
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and several other designers who have been associated with it, has led to several books, as well as publication in
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album covers, book covers, posters, packaging, advertisements, and corporate and environmental logos and graphics
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Over the last six decades, the firm's work, and that of the founding designers, along with
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and traveling exhibitions, such as "The Push Pin Style," which traveled to the Museum of
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is a graphic design and illustration studio founded by the influential graphic designers
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The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic,
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magazine contextualized the results in a 1995 article for their "Reputations" column:
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Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration.
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Graphic design, Illustration, Communications, Advertising, Marketing
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Milton Glaser
Seymour Chwast
Reynold Ruffins
Edward Sorel
www.pushpininc.com
Milton Glaser
Seymour Chwast
Cooper Union
Esquire
Fulbright Fellowship
John Alcorn
Paul Davis
Barry Zaid
Paul Degen
Reynold Ruffins
Edward Sorel
Decorative Arts
Louvre
Brazil
Japan
A 1987 photo of Milton Glaser in his studio.
A 1970 movie poster by Milton Glaser.
Milton Glaser's typeface "Baby Teeth."
Book Jacket design by Seymour Chwast in 1968.
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
Brazil
Japan
Poster House
Robert Grossman
"Eye Magazine | Feature | Reputations: Milton Glaser"

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