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Nice addition to the MoOM, the Gallery of Graphic Design.

Source: Gallery of Graphic Design.

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1914
Born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, Brooklyn, New York

1929 – 1932
Education: Pratt Institute, New York
Education: Harren High School, New York

1932
Education: Parsons School of Design, New York

1933
Education: Art Students’ League with George Grosz

1934
Illustrator: Metro Associated Services

1935
Design Assistant: George Switzer Studio
Freelance: Glass Packer magazine
Changes legal name from Peretz Rosenbaum to Paul Rand

1936 – …

Over the past 100 years, the modern Olympic Games have come to represent the pinnacle of athletic achievement, and now occupy a place on a global stage as ‘the greatest sporting show on Earth’.
This vibrant new exhibition will explore the fascinating representation of the Olympic Games through the intensely visual …

1848

Sobeslav Hippolyt Pinkas (1827 – 1901): Montmartre,1856, National Art Gallery in Prague
The Czech painter, graphic designer and journalist S. H. Pinkas was actively involved in the cultural and political life including, inter alia, the radical student movement in 1848. He studied at the Academy in Prague and Munich and with …

William Addison Dwiggins coined the term in 1922 to describe his work in book design, illustration, typography and calligraphy, although the term did not achieve widespread usage until after WWII.

William Addison Dwiggins (June 19, 1880 Martinsville, Ohio - December 25, 1956 Hingham, Massachusetts ) was a U.S. type designer, calligrapher, …

15 MARCH - 13 JULY 2008
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7
020 7942 2000

China is huge. China is becoming topical. Yet China remains mystery to most people in the West. ‘Made in China’ has become a familiar tag, but the spectacular creative energy in modern China is barely known. During the …

After decades of inward-looking central planning, China is joining the international community. On the eve of a major exhibition at the V&A, how are the country’s graphic designers responding to the sweeping changes of reform? asks Zhang Hongxing

CHINA HAS a long-standing tradition of the visual. Chinese calligraphy continues to inform …