NEW YORK — Chances are good that you don’t recognize Paul Rand’s name ... The ABC logo? Rand created them, as he did numerous other graphic designs during his long and highly influential ...

Watson hired Elliot Noyes, a designer and curator for the Museum of Modern Art, to overhaul IBM's design company-wide. One of Noyes' first moves was to hire Paul Rand. Rand's influence at IBM was ...

In 1947, at 33 years old, Paul Rand published Thoughts on ... Likewise, high design was a very serious thing. American art directors pictured their work achieving a European prominence–they ...

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer known for his work ... Born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, he studied at the Pratt Institute, the Parsons School of Design, and the Art ...

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THE DAILY PIC (#1348): “Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand”, at the Museum of the City of New York, shows a true design genius at work. Take his logo for IBM. The 1956, black-and ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1676): This Olivetti ad by Paul Rand, from 1953, gets at a vital hinge moment in American commercial design ... s book called A Designer’s Art, a guide to his career and ideas ...

Paul Rand (1914–1996) was one of the foremost American graphic designers of the 20th century and helped establish the so-called Swiss Style of design in the United States. Trained in the 1930s at ...